The South China tiger is a sleek cat, averaging about 300 pounds. For the past 2,000 years, the animal has been the subject of Chinese art and literature and revered by many as a symbol of ...

While the South China tiger once roamed a territory 1,200 miles wide, the species was all but eradicated by hunters during the “anti-pest” campaigns of Mao’s Great Leap Forward, ...

“The South China tiger has to jump over a big barrier to be saved,” she says. “They might not jump. Despite all the effort, they might still go extinct.

China is still eager to have Indian experts help rebuild the designated tiger habitats in southern China. This could herald a new avenue of cooperation between the two Asian neighbors.

BEIJING — The photos of the South China tiger taken by a farmer seemed too good to be true. After all, no member of the endangered big cat family had been seen in the wild since the 1960s. This ...

Tiger encounters featured more regularly in records than those by Asiatic black bears, wolves, red dogs, or wild boar, Coggins writes, and were predominantly South China tigers.

(Hong Kong, Shanghai, January 25, 2022) Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. (hereafter "Ping An" or the "Group, HKEX: 02318; SSE: 601318) announced that Ping An Public Welfare ...

With an average life span of 25 years, the South China tiger can be found mainly in the mountain forests south of the Yangtze River. It is the most endangered species in the world.

That number includes all subspecies—Bengal, Siberian, Sumatran, and Indochinese tigers, as well as the critically endangered South China tiger, which may already be extinct in the wild.

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