Agency: Less Than 30 Chinese Tigers Left in Wild
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South China tigers, among the rarest of the five remaining tiger subspecies, are on the verge of extinction in the wild with less than 30 remaining, Xinhua news agency said on Friday, citing a recent survey.
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GUANGZHOU, China - In southern China, it doesnât matter if an animal is an endangered species. As long as it walks, wriggles or jumps, itâs good enough for the pot.
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Indian tiger skins are still openly bought and sold on the streets of China, conservationists say.
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The Interior Department has abandoned attempts to craft a recovery plan for the endangered jaguar because too few of the rare cats have been spotted along the Southwest region of New Mexico and Arizona to warrant such action.
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A shortage of the staple food of China's giant panda will leave 19 of the rare animals scrounging to keep hunger at bay for as long as a decade in a reserve in the mountainous southwest, Xinhua news agency said on Thursday.
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Russian and Chinese conservationists began searching Thursday for signs of the last remaining Amur leopards in Russia's Far East and adjacent Chinese border regions, as part of a triennial census of the nearly extinct cats.
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Eighty-four Siberian tiger cubs have been born in captivity in northeast China since March this year in a boost to the survival chances of the endangered species, state media reported Sunday.
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The number of loggerhead turtle nests was substantially lower in 2007 than in past years, according to preliminary numbers from scientists statewide.
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The end is nigh, says new report The world's tigers face "ecological extinction" due to a combination of "increased poaching, habitat destruction, and poor conservation efforts by governments", Reuters reports.â¦
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A government official confirmed that 23 tigers have died from bird flu at a private zoo in Thailand. The animals had been fed the carcasses of chickens infected with the disease.
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Police were searching for the culprits behind the beheading and skinning of a rare Siberian tiger at a zoo in central China, state media reported Sunday.
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The critically endangered Sumatran tiger will become extinct unless Indonesia takes swift action to clamp down on the illegal sale of the big cats' body parts across the Southeast Asian country, conservationists say
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The world's tiger population has plummeted by 95 percent from the start of the 20th century to as few as 5,000 now and is further threatened by the lucrative trade in their skins, officials told a forum Friday.
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By Ma Lie  XI'AN: Twenty ibises that were bred in captivity were released into the wild yesterday in Ningshan County, Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, reflecting the progress that efforts to breed and protect the endangered species have made.
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Seven more tigers have died at a private zoo in Thailand where 23 others succumbed to bird flu, an official said Wednesday. In addition to the 30 tigers who have died, 23 others remain
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Vietnam&#39;s prime minister has ordered authorities to take action against illegal tiger farms that have 37 of the endangered animals, the government said on its website Tuesday.
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The global body regulating wildlife trade calls on China to reduce the scale of its tiger farming industry.