The Sundarbans , the world's largest mangrove forest, straddling the border of Bangladesh and India, is a vital stronghold for the Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris). In a really engaging interview ...

The great cat is listed as Endangered by the IUCN Red List, although two of its subspecies, the Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae) and the South China tiger (Panthera tigris amoyensis) are ...

Their biggest threat: humans. No trace of the wild South China tiger, Panthera tigris amoyensis (critically endangered, possibly extinct in the wild), has been seen for more than a decade.

A year of such disappointments has led Tilson, a renowned tiger researcher and conservation director of the Minnesota Zoo, to conclude that the South China tiger (Panthera tigris amoyensis) -- the ...

Three subspecies of tiger vanished in the 20th Century: the Javan, the Balinese, and the Caspian tiger. Today the South China (Panthera tigris amoyensis) tiger is the most endangered subspecies.

LONDON, November 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Abstract The South China tiger (Panthera tigris amoyensis) was the victim of government-sponsored wildlife extermination teams operating from 1952 to 1970s.

Panthera tigris. There were originally eight tiger subspecies: Bengal, Siberian, South China, Indochinese, Sumatran, Javan, Bali, and Caspian. Three are already extinct: Javan, Bali and Caspian.

South China tiger, also called "panthera tigris amoyensis," is native to China and mainly lives in China's Fujian, Guangdong, Hubei and Hunan provinces. Currently, fewer than 60 tigers remain ...

So in spite of being different colors, they are all Bengal Tigers (Panthera tigris tigris). Golden tigers, however, tend to be larger and have a softer fur.

The petty politics over Panthera tigris is today perhaps as perilous a threat to its survival as poaching and loss of habitat that have driven the tiger to near extinction in India. Be it ...