SOUTH CHINA TIGER

The South China tiger (Panthera tigris tigris, syn. Panthera tigris amoyensis) is a tiger population in southern China. This population occurred in Fujian, Guangdong, Hunan, Jiangxi provinces. It has been listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List since 1996, and is possibly extinct in the wild since no wild individual has been recorded since the early 1970s. Already in the late 1990s, continued survival was considered unlikely due to low prey density, widespread habitat … More SOUTH CHINA TIGER