| Abstract: | As one of five survived tiger subspecies, the South-China tiger (Panthera tigris amoyensis) specially disperses in China. This paper dedicated distribution and quantity of wild South-China tiger, and also introduced
distribution, quantity and pedigree of captive South-China tiger. In the middle of this century, about several thousands South-China
tiger distributed in following provinces, such as Hunan, Jiangxi, Guizhou, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Zhejiang, Hubei, Sichuan,
Henan, Shanxi, Shanxi, Gansu. etc. Until now, there are only about 20–30 wild South-China tigers distributing in the provinces
of Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, and Hunan, Sichuan, and 50 captive South-China tiger are raised in zoos of China.
This subject is supported by Department of Wildlife and Forest Plant Conservation, Ministry of Forestry
(Responsible Editor: Zhu Hong) |
