These tigers are known as Siberian tigers, and have been considered endangered.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-12/10/c_134903867.htm
there are 10 good piks on the link.
Chinese Tiger Park bred 110 tigers in 2015
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LoveUniHateExams
Thanks for the link, Fulltimestudent.
There are some great photos!
I certainly hope that the wild stock is replenished.
Tigers are such beautiful, majestic creatures. They have the explosive power, speed and strength to kill a human in less than a minute. I suppose large felids killed our ancestors. *shudder*
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Witness 007
No pics of them mating?? 😊kidding good to see something being done. China's river dolphins are extinct. Sad. -
fulltimestudent
Witness 007 China's river dolphins are extinct. Sad.
Yes! It is sad to see any species vanish. ( Though a Chinese friend says that it would be good if the human species vanished - but since we now understand a lot more (than YHWH and JESUS) about the role of the top predators in natural ecology, maybe that could cause some problems too.
The wikipedia entry says:
"In the 1950s, the population was estimated at 6,000 animals,[24] but declined rapidly over the subsequent five decades. Only a few hundred were left by 1970. Then the number dropped down to 400 by the 1980s and then to 13 in 1997 when a full-fledged search was conducted. Now the most endangered cetacean in the world, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, the baiji was last sighted in August 2004, though there was a possible sighting in 2007.[9] It is listed as an endangered species by the U.S. government under the Endangered Species Act. It is now thought to be extinct."
The wikipedia entry sees the early period of the PRC as the most influential in the loss, but I think that the whole process can be said to start with the destabilisation of the Qing Empire (of which China was then a subject state), from the early part of the nineteenth century.
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fulltimestudent
LoveUniHateExams : Thanks for the link, Fulltimestudent.
There are some great photos! ... I certainly hope that the wild stock is replenished.
Tigers are such beautiful, majestic creatures. They have the explosive power, speed and strength to kill a human in less than a minute. I suppose large felids killed our ancestors. *shudder*(Wry smile) and that's part of the problem I guess. In both India and China, wild tigers can be responsible for human deaths. Cant really blame the tigers (anymore than we can blame sharks for attacking humans) to them we are just another source of protein. Its not so bad across the border in Russia, where there is a much smaller population of humans. But, it has been noted, tigers from the Russian side of the border do cross into the Chinese side.
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fulltimestudent
Conservation of other species.
Snow Leopards are another rare (Endangered???) species. A lot is being done to ensure their survival. Again there is a clash between human activity and the foraging activities of the snow leopards. Its claimed that there are about 6000 of the species surviving in the wilder, less densely populated parts of China and in Mongolia.
Here's a couple of articles on what's happening in the field.
From the snow leopard trust:
http://www.snowleopard.org/snow-leopard-presence-confirmed-in-western-sichuan
Western sichuan is very mountainous country and borders Tibet. The interests of humans and the leopards do not clash so much in this wild (primitive) part of the world.
And from the UK Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/wildlife/8207266/The-snow-leopard-ghost-of-the-mountains.html
The WWF is a legal NGO in China and does some good work;
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fulltimestudent
Sometimes its just the preservation of a staging area for a species, as seen with this population of black-necked cranes who migrate in winter.
and for these swans who in their migration pattern have long used this location at Rongcheng in E.China.
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Diogenesister
Love your work ! Had a look with my tiger mad kids. Have you lived, or do you have a connection with China fulltimestudent? -
fulltimestudent
Diogenesister: Love your work ! Had a look with my tiger mad kids. Have you lived, or do you have a connection with China fulltimestudent?
Thank you for thoughts.
I try to make a trip to China once a year (all I can afford). Have a number of friends there now, and also know a number of students who study here in OZ.
But I've had a long interest in China. I was about 16/17 when I saw a film advertised about how the government was re-building China. I happened to be the only caucasian there (audience was mainly elderly Chinese). After the film donations were called for and I was rather amazed to see these old men donating what would have been a months wages for me in those days. I thought more was going on that country than I could read about in the local papers.
Not too long after that I got involved with U know who, and my interests centred on the coming paradise (Hahahahaha !!!!).
Anyway, to keep this short I decided to do a B.Arts in my old age, and made Asia (with a China focus) the centre of my studies.
Imagining that your kids love tigers, I found these piks from a Russian tiger park on the north side of the border.
Just to background it, if you are planning to release tigers back into the wild you have to allow them to keep their predator/hunting skills alive. So the parks give them live animals for prey. (Don't blame the parks - blame YHWH-JESUS for that).
But for some unknown reason, on this occasion that didn't work out the way it was supposed to (Scroll down for the video).
https://www.rt.com/news/325740-tiger-goat-film-russia/
There is also this story of a Korean man whobecame absorbed in the lives of these animals. There's a trailer in the RH menu.
https://www.rt.com/news/325740-tiger-goat-film-russia/
http://www.terramater.at/productions/hunt-for-the-russian-tiger/
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fulltimestudent
A Chinese news report tells of an increasing presence of tigers in Jilin province. this province borders North Korea and Russia, but is not the most northerly province of China. The most northerly province is Heilongjiang which shares a very long border with Siberia.
CHANGCHUN, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- Traces of wild Siberian tigers have been spotted in forest farms in northeast China's Jilin Province, marking the expansion of the tigers' range of activity, the local forestry administration said Thursday.English.news.cn 2015-12-17 20:38:11
Infrared cameras showed footprints and pictures of the tigers in areas administered by the Tianqiaoling Forest Administration in Wangqing County and Baishishan Forest Administration in Jiaohe City last Thursday and Friday, according to the provincial forestry department.
"The Siberian tigers once wandered in Tianqiaoling area but became extinct in the mid 1980s," said Wu Zhigang, a researcher with the provincial academy of forestry.
"The comeback of the tigers shows that they are expanding their sphere of activity from the border areas to the inland regions," he said.
The provincial forestry department set up about 1,000 far infrared cameras to monitor the activity of the Siberian tigers and leopards since 2006. There are 27 Siberian tigers currently living in Jilin Province, according to the latest survey.
Jilin has banned commercial logging in key state-owned forest farms since April 1 this year, which improves the living environment for the Siberian tigers.
Siberian tigers are among the world's most endangered species. They mostly live in northeast China and eastern Russia.link: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-12/17/c_134927878.htm
It would be interesting to know if there is a tiger count in North Korea. In the section adjoining Jilin its generally more rugged and less populated than China.