Bung Chawak or Bung Chawak Heritage zoo is located in the Suphanburi province. A government-run facility, it holds many animals and boasts a rather beautiful aquarium. The range of animals is diverse, from domestic animals through fish and birds all the way to a small African collection. All were in enclosures of varying size and adequacy with the herbivores, as usual, better off. The main draw is the area labelled the Big Cat zone. Here, there are vast numbers of cages containing tigers, lions, leopards and, disturbingly, ligers.

Whilst claiming to be about conservation, it is clearly not. There are a vast number of white tigers, some clearly severely inbred, with glassy unseeing eyes and hip problems amongst other issues. A small number of tigers were also in with lions, which had clearly resulted in serious fights. At least four animals had wholly, or partly missing tails. Then, of course, there were two ligers.