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Fewer Than 50 Wild Tigers Left In China: Expert

09-Feb-10

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....


Source: Fewer Than 50 Wild Tigers Left In China: Expert

Link: Asian Affluence Endangers World Tiger Population
Link: China says it has 6,000 captive tigers
Link: Tiger's ancient ancestry revealed / As the Chinese Year of the Tiger begins, scientists say the world's biggest cat may be more ancient and unique than we thought

Date: 2010-02-09

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