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Fewer than 50 wild tigers left in China

22 hours ago ago from Precious Kingdoms

The South China Tiger is probably already extinct BEIJING (Reuters) - China has an estimated 50 or fewer tigers left living in the wild, but efforts to stabilize one population in the bleak northeast are starting to pay off, a conservationist said on Monday. Tigers once roamed huge swathes of China, right up to the now booming east coast. Their population has collapsed due to habitat destruction on the back of rapid economic ...

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Wild tigers in China declining habitat destruction, poaching to blame

2 hours ago ago from Buzzworm Earth Blog

China has an estimated 50 or fewer tigers left living in the wild, but efforts to stabilize one population in the bleak northeast are starting to pay off, a conservationist said on Monday. Tigers once roamed huge swathes of China, right up to the now booming east coast. Their population has collapsed due to habitat destruction on the back of rapid economic development and poaching for tiger products to use in traditional medicine. About 10 ...

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White tiger

22 hours ago ago from CoolFwdPic

A white tiger rests inside an enclosure at Beijing Zoo in Beijing, China, Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. There are fewer than 50 wild tigers left in China today, living in Yunnan, Tibet, Jilin and Helongjiang, according to Xie Yan, the China program director of the Wildlife Conservation Society. The organization is working with the Chinese government to help protect Amur tigers from poachers and develop new habits to their survival. A white tiger ...

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Few tigers left in China

13 hours ago ago from Eco-h2o.co.za

Beijing – China has an estimated 50 or fewer tigers left living in the wild, but efforts to stabilise one population in the bleak northeast are starting to pay off, a conservationist said on Monday. Tigers once roamed around large parts of China, right up to the now booming east coast. Their population has collapsed due to habitat destruction on the back of rapid economic development and poaching for tiger products to use in traditional ...

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view the location of this item Chinese tiger numbers fall to new low

6 hours ago ago from Exit Stage Right

RADIO NETHERLANDS WORLDWIDE The population of wild tigers in China has now fallen to just 50 across the entire country, according to a report by the US-based Wildlife Conservation Society. Twenty years ago the tiger was relatively common in some parts of China. Now there are only 20 Siberian tigers in the northeast, 15 Bengal tigers in Tibet and ten Indonesian tigers in the southwest. The Southern Chinese tiger may well be ...

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