Chinese tigers to attend hunting school in Africa - smh.com.au

Chinese tigers to attend hunting school in Africa - smh.com.au: "tigers in the wild thought to be as low as 30, Chinese conservationists are ready to try desperate measures to avoid the endangered sub-species of Chinese tiger, or Panthera tigris amoyensis, becoming only a zoo animal. About 60 of the species survive and breed in zoos and game parks, but they are thought to have lost the ability to fend for themselves in the natural environment. The State Forestry Administration's Wildlife Research Centre has just signed an agreement for the new foreign education program with two non-government organisations, London-based Save China's Tigers, and Chinese Tigers South Africa. 'China currently is not able to help the cubs regain hunting skills,' a scientist in the Chinese research centre, Lu Jun, told the official Xinhua news agency. advertisement advertisement Selected tiger cubs from Chinese zoos will be sent to South Africa, where they will be trained to hunt "