In 2008, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) declared the Javan tiger, a subspecies of the Sumatran tiger, extinct. More than 20 years later, a conservationist living on the ...

Here’s how it works. Sumatran tiger. (Image credit: Hung Chung Chih via Shutterstock) Extinct Javan tigers, which disappeared almost 50 years ago, could still be alive, researchers have claimed.

The Javan tiger was believed to have gone extinct in the 1980s but only officially declared as such in 2008, along with the Bali tiger; a third Indonesian subspecies, the Sumatran tiger, is also ...

Javan Tiger May Not Be Extinct After All, DNA Analysis Of Hair Suggests The big cats were apparently wiped out by the 1980s, but new research hints this may not have been the case.

Javan tiger was declared extinct in Indonesia in 2008. But now, a ‘single hair’ has been found on a plantation, leading to hunt for species.

JAKARTA, Indonesia — With camera traps and extensive DNA sweeps, Indonesian conservationists are hoping to find more evidence that the Javan tiger, a species declared extinct, actually still ...

Not least because the men live on Indonesia ’s most populous island, Java, and especially because Javan tigers have long been believed extinct. The last confirmed sighting dates back nearly half ...

Taken in 1938, this image captures one of the once abundant Javan tigers. Hunting drove the big cats to extinction. A. Hoogerwerf via Wikimedia CC A tiger subspecies thought to be extinct for ...