"Fewer than 50 wild tigers" left in China – China Environment

www.physorg.com — Fewer than 50 wild tigers remain in China, a conservation group said as it voiced hope that the Year of the Tiger will not be the last for the endangered cats.

Xie Yan, director of the China programme for the US-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), said that just 20 years ago tigers still roamed across large swathes of China.

But based on data from the year 2000, there are only around 15 Bengal tigers left in Tibet, 10 Indochinese tigers in China's southwest, and around 20 Siberian tigers in the northeast, she told reporters.

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