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Rare tiger photographed
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February 24, 2009, Tuesday
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CHINESE scientists in southwest China's Yunnan Province say they have a photograph of a wild Indo-Chinese tiger, one of the world's most critically endangered tiger subspecies.
The picture was taken in May 2007 by a researcher with an infrared camera in Xishuangbanna Nature Reserve, a mountainous border area straddling China and Myanmar, said a provincial forestry department official surnamed Huo yesterday.
At the time, scientists from the State Forestry Administration and the provincial forestry department were on a 20-month field survey, he said.
"The research group found a large number of tiger footprints, feces, remains of prey and traces of other activity in the reserve," he said. "They also found bison, Sambar, barking deer, boar and other herbivorous animals that were part of the tigers' food chain."
Indo-Chinese tigers (Panthera tigris corbetti) are found in Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Malaysia and southern China but only 1,200 to 1,700 are believed to be living in the wild.
The picture was taken in May 2007 by a researcher with an infrared camera in Xishuangbanna Nature Reserve, a mountainous border area straddling China and Myanmar, said a provincial forestry department official surnamed Huo yesterday.
At the time, scientists from the State Forestry Administration and the provincial forestry department were on a 20-month field survey, he said.
"The research group found a large number of tiger footprints, feces, remains of prey and traces of other activity in the reserve," he said. "They also found bison, Sambar, barking deer, boar and other herbivorous animals that were part of the tigers' food chain."
Indo-Chinese tigers (Panthera tigris corbetti) are found in Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Malaysia and southern China but only 1,200 to 1,700 are believed to be living in the wild.
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