South-Chinese tiger
Also known as South China tiger, Panthera tigris amoyensis, South Chinese tiger, Chinese tiger, Amoy tiger, P. tigris amoyensis
subspecies of mammal
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The South-Chinese tiger is a subspecies of tiger that is native to southern China. It is particularly significant because it is one of the most critically endangered tiger subspecies in the world, with very few individuals remaining in the wild.
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Critically Endangered华南虎（學名：Panthera tigris amoyensis）又叫厦门虎、中国虎或南中国虎，是虎的一个亚种，为中国除孟加拉虎與西伯利亞虎之外第三種虎，也是境內唯一的特有品种，生活在中国的南部，許多南方傳統童話與記述當中都有出現。十九到二十世紀，被以中藥、危害農業等為由大量獵殺，1977年後雖然已經立法禁止，但數量已經不足以恢復，最后一只野生华南虎在1994年被射杀，之后再没有确凿证据证明野生种群的存在，被懷疑已經野外滅絕。
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The South China tiger is a population of the Panthera tigris tigris subspecies that is native to Southern China. The population mainly inhabited the Fujian, Guangdong, Hunan and Jiangxi provinces. It has been listed as Critically Endangered on the China's Red List of Vertebrates and is possibly extinct in the wild since no wild individual has been recorded since the late 1980s. In the late 1990s, continued survival was considered unlikely because of low prey density, widespread habitat degradation and fragmentation, and other environmental issues in China. In the fur trade, it used to be called Amoy tiger.
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