The South-Chinese Tiger (Panthera tigris amoyensis)

[Dr Panthera]

Tigers are strongly linked to India, the country is home to 40%-50% of all wild tigers, some of its national parks are among the best places to see and study wild tigers, and tigers in northern India and neighboring places in Nepal and Bhutan are some of the largest and most formidable cats, yet there is another country that played a more important role in the history of tigers and their evolution:China.
Tigers originated in China and from there they followed populations of large deer and wild boar north to the Amur region, west to the Caspian region, south to south east Asia and south west to the Indian subcontinent.
Up to the 1950's China was home to :

Amur tigers in Jilin province and the areas bordering Russia and North Korea ( a few 25-30 still exist)

Caspian tigers ( or West Amur if you like) in western China ( Gone by 1960)

Indochinese tigers in the Yunnan and the southern provinces bordering Vietnam, Laos, and Myanmar ( extinct by 2009)

Bengal tigers in southern Tibet  ( 20-30 still exist)

South China Tiger : The original or stem subspecies numbered as high as 4000 in 1949 but state policies of the Mao government treated it as a vermin and that lead to wide eradication.
China can stop the illegal trade in tiger parts and reduce the demand of poached tigers, it also provides hope of preserving and growing its Amur and Bengal tiger populations and restoring its Indochinese and South Chinese tiger populations, definitely challenging but hopefully possible. Reply