It is facing inbreeding, old-aged, population degeneration. The South China tiger is one of the most endangered species. In 1993, a self imposed ban on traditional Chinese medicines made from tiger parts has cost China hundreds of millions of yuan, but the freeze will remain to help save them. Traditionally, almost every part of the tigers is used to cue a variety of ailments and Chinese Doctors are now working hard to replace them with alternatives, in an effort to protect their numbers. China now has foreign cooperation to learn new conservation and breeding techniques in an effort to save its own species of this magnificent animal.
Tigers are the largest of the living cats.
They are efficient predators. After a careful stalk, a tiger makes a short rush towards its prey and then quickly bites the back of the animals neck or its throat, causing death as a result of broken vertebrae or suffocation. Chinese Tigers South China Tiger Siberian Tiger Shanghai Zoological Park had begun to raise South China Tiger since 1959. Up to now, more than 100 heads of young tigers have been born and more than 60 have survived since the first successful reproduction in 1968. Now we have succeeded in breeding the fifth generation of South China Tiger.