page_title: South China tiger
section_title: Rewilding project in South Africa
hierarchical_section_title: South China tiger / Rewilding / Rewilding project in South Africa
caption_attribution_description: English: Picture of South China Tiger, JenB marking his territory in the wilderness of South Africa.
context_page_description: The South China tiger was a Panthera tigris tigris population in southern China. This population was native to Fujian, Guangdong, Hunan and Jiangxi provinces. It has been listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List since 1996, and is possibly extinct in the wild since no wild individual has been recorded since the early 1970s. Already in the late 1990s, continued survival was considered unlikely due to low prey density, widespread habitat degradation and fragmentation, and other human pressures.
  In the fur trade, it used to be called Amoy tiger. It is also known as South Chinese, Chinese and Xiamen tiger.
context_section_description: The organisation Save China's Tigers, working with the Wildlife Research Center of the State Forestry Administration of China and the Chinese Tigers South Africa Trust, secured an agreement on the reintroduction of Chinese tigers into the wild. The agreement, which was signed in Beijing on 26 November 2002, calls for the establishment of a Chinese tiger conservation model through the creation of a pilot reserve in China where indigenous wildlife, including the South China tiger, will be reintroduced. Save China's Tigers aims to rewild the critically endangered South China tiger by bringing a few captive-bred individuals to a private reserve in the Free State province of South Africa for rehabilitation training for them to regain their hunting instincts. At the same time, a pilot reserve in China is being set up and the tigers will be relocated and release back in China when the reserve in China is ready. The offspring of the trained tigers will be released into the pilot reserves in China, while the original animals will stay in South Africa to continue breeding.
  The reason South Africa was chosen is because it is able to provide expertise and resources, land and game for the South China tigers. The South China tigers of the project have since been successfully rewilded and are fully capable of hunting and surviving on their own. This project has also been very successful in the breeding of these rewilded South China tigers and 14 cubs have been born in the project of which 11 survived. These 2nd generation cubs would be able to learn their survival skills from their successfully rewilded mothers directly.
  It was hoped that in 2012 the first second-generation tigers born at Laohu Valley Reserve could be released into the wild.
caption: A male tiger of the Save China's Tigers Project scent-marking his territory
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