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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 ...

Li talked the Chinese government into sending them South China tiger cubs that had been bred in zoos. In 2002, Bray and Li were all ready to fly to Beijing to finalize the plan.

The South China tiger is one of the world’s smallest and the only tiger subspecies native to China’s central and southern areas, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

Prior to the controversial pictures, no wild South China Tiger had been spotted since October 1986, even though local people reported hearing roars, and finding footprints, hair, and teeth.

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.

For conservationists, the news was exceptional. Chinese officials announced last fall that at least one South China tiger, a species not seen in the wild for more than 20 years, still roamed the ...

But with the tiger conservation world mostly opposed, she has battled to raise funds and find specialists willing to help. Now she divides her time between her home in London, South Africa, and China.

A South China tiger has been caught on camera by a hunter-turned-farmer, the first confirmed sighting for 30 years of a sub-species experts had feared was extinct in the wild.

Lighting the South China Tiger Clip: Episode 2 | 3m 22s | CC Joel puts his translator to work setting up lights for a photo shoot. Occasionally Joel Sartore's photo shoots require being trapped in ...