Thursday, 16 April 2015

South China tiger (Panthera tigris amoyensis)

In this photo supplied by Save China's Tigers two newly born tiger cubs play in the bush in the Laohu Valley Reserve near Philippolis, South Africa, Thursday Aug. 28, 2008. The critically endangered South China tigress named Madonna, unseen, in an innovative re-wilding and breeding project in the country has given birth to the two cubs - a boy and a girl. The cubs were born during the Olympics on August 18, 2008 in dense bush. These were the first cubs to be born in the Save Chinas Tigers project under completely natural conditions without observation or any human intervention.

Population left: 30 to 80 in 1996
The tiger was hunted in thousands before a ban by the Chinese government in 1979. Not sighted for the last 25 years, it has prompted scientists to consider the animal as "functionally extinct."
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