Talk:South China tiger

message: :Extinct in the Wild lists South China Tiger as such. --  DasRakel  ✍  17:58, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: More contradiction: A total of 47 South China tigers exist in captivity in 18 zoos and The 68 captive South China tigers probably represent a population too small Hanfresco 04:51, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Extinct

message: In Today's News:
Controversial tiger photos faked Mon Jun 30, 1:01 PM ET
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has fired a number of government officials and arrested a man in connection with a set of fake photographs that local authorities had said was proof of the existence of a highly endangered tiger. 
In October, forestry officials in Zhenping county in northern Shaanxi province published photos of a tiger in a forest setting, saying they were proof of the existence of the South China tiger. A local farmer who produced the photos was paid a 20,000 yuan ($2,900) reward.
Nine months later, officials admitted the photos were faked, state media said, citing sources at a press conference held by the Shaanxi province government.
Thirteen local officials, including Zhu Julong, deputy head of the province's forestry bureau, and its top wildlife official Wang Wanyun, were sacked, Xinhua said.
Zhou Zhenglong, the farmer who claimed to have taken the photo using a digital camera, was arrested on suspicion of fraud, Xinhua said, after police seized a picture of a tiger which he borrowed from a farmer in another village to produce the photos.
The scandal has captivated local media and many Chinese who have viewed the saga as symbolic of common people's lack of trust in local authorities.
China has been rocked by a number of major scandals involving official endorsement of photos of rare wildlife in recent years.
In February, the chief editor of a Chinese newspaper quit after one its photographers faked a prize-winning photo of endangered Tibetan antelopes appearing unfazed by a passing train on the Qinghai-Tibet railway.
(Reporting by Ian Ransom; Editing by Jeremy Laurence)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.101.136.224 (talk) 23:22, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Organization

message: What are the sources for the size and coat pattern of this subspecies?--Altaileopard 11:08, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Physical characteristics 

message: I had some doubts about the persecution that the South Chinese tiger suffered during the Mao Zedong's area, during the years of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution:
* 1-Had the fanatical Red Guards participated in those massacres??
* 2-And Mao also viewed the tigers as a symbol of the Old China that he intended to eliminated??
--Nogai Khan (talk) 04:18, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  About the persecution during Mao's years

message: should this maybe be moved to South China tiger? --Emesee (talk) 03:06, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  should this maybe be moved to [[South China tiger]]? 

message: It seems the latest revisions by 68.199.179.87 have deleted parts of the article. I'm suggesting these changed to be undone if others agree.
-- 145.97.197.105 (talk) 14:17, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broken article 

message: "A 1987 field survey by Chinese scientists reported a few tigers remaining in the Guangdong mountains bordering Hunan and Jiangxi, and another survey in 1990 noted evidence of about a dozen tigers in 11 reserves in the remote mountains of Guangdong, Hunan, and Fujian Provinces of South China. No tigers were seen. The only evidence came from anecdotal stories of former hunters." I have read this several times and it always comes out as "Scientists saw some tigers. No tigers were see. Evidence comes from former hunters." I have no idea what this is trying to say. I went to the cited source which has the exact same ambiguous wording (shouldn't this be in quotes then?). Anyone have any ideas about what that's trying to say?JediRogue (talk) 06:24, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  ambiguous phrasing 

message: Why ? according to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is CR (Critically Endangered). --212.97.45.235 (talk) 13:42, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Extinct in the Wild 

message: Section "Establishment of South China tiger reserves in China" requires citation. 
Section on "Rewilding project in South Africa" ends with what is hoped to happen in 2012, requires updating.
--Carthage52 (talk) 06:36, 5 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggested updates 

message: Section on "Attacks on humans" - 2nd paragraph sounds implausible, and the only cited reference is not in English. Although it states that an attack is "reported to have killed..." rather than stating it outright, it is very irresponsible to be including this if it is not easily verified by other sources, as there are places where tiger populations remain under threat because of unsubstantiated beliefs held by local populations in regard to the threat of human life.--Carthage52 (talk) 06:53, 5 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Factual Accuracy 

message: A single sighting of an unusually-coloured animal does not merit a separate article, but might justify a sentence in this one. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 12:56, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree! -- BhagyaMani (talk) 16:03, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge of [[:Maltese tiger]] into [[:South China tiger]]  

message: See Talk:Bengal_tiger#First_sentence_structure. AnomalousAtom (talk) 08:00, 6 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion about first sentence structure