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(06-04-2015, 02:18 AM)'strana' Wrote: Yes, no more South China tigers.
China, however, seems to have a nice reproduction in captivity program, with more than 5000 tigers, all subspecies.
Anyway, I think the Siberian tiger has the best long term prospect. They still have a good habitat and Russia seems to be very determined to protect them. I believe all of you already know the last good news from Russia: there are more than 500 wild Siberians and the population seems to be increasing.
I am afraid of the situation in India. India is a 1,2 billion people country and the economy is growing very fast ( around 7,5% a year). If the tiger´s habitat is already a problem now, I suspect the situation can only get worse and worse in the future, with a lot of pressure to build roads, etc inside reserves. But I know India is very interested in saving the bigcats although it is really sad to read that this year budget to Project Tiger was cut in 15% compared to last year.
In fact, in Russia, tiger numbers have been growing and even in China where its thought to be unsafe seems to have seen a growth in Amur Tigers as well. Its definitely looking better for siberians and Indian Bengals, the sumatran, Malayan, Indo-chinese still need our help I think, as with all tigers that is. http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-c1-ch...story.html
Because the Northeast China/Manchuria is much less densely populated than the South China, hence the Amur tigers got a chance to struggle for their survival.
And the wildlife ecosystems in India seem still to be relatively good, so maybe they could introduce the South Chinese tiger to the border between India and Myanmar.
