What is the reason for the decline in the number of South China tigers?

Due to the reduction of forest area, the living area of ??South China tiger has been reduced.

In addition, due to the decrease in the number of South China tigers, my country has adopted artificial breeding methods, which has resulted in the majority of South China tigers being inbred, increasing the incidence rate and reducing the survival rate.

Reasons for the decline of South China tigers The South China tiger is on the verge of extinction, which is really a great historical tragedy.

In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, there were still more than 4,000 wild South China tigers.

After continued large-scale hunting in the 1950s and 1960s, the South China tiger population suffered heavy losses and was unable to recover.

At that time, the Communist Party of China declared the South China tiger as one of the "four pests". To eradicate the tiger was like suppressing bandits and launched a people's war. It also organized a special tiger-fighting team, with the Communist Party and militia working together to eliminate all tigers.

For example, in the winter of 1956, Fujian troops and militia killed 530 tigers and leopards.

During this campaign, more than 150 tigers were killed in Nanchang, Jiujiang, Ji'an and Fuzhou in Jiangxi.

In the winter of 1959, more than 30 tigers and leopards were hunted in Guizhou.

In 1963, 17 tigers were killed in northern Guangdong, and 17 tigers were also killed in Leizhou Peninsula.

From 1953 to 1963, a professional tiger hunting team killed more than 130 tigers and leopards in eastern Guangdong, western Fujian, and southern Jiangxi.

In the battle to encircle and annihilate the South China tiger, many tiger fighting heroes emerged.

I don’t know why, but they are both tigers, but their destinies are very different.

Siberian tigers have been on the government's protection list from the beginning, while South China tigers have long been on the blacklist and must be killed without mercy.

In February 1959, the Ministry of Forestry issued an instruction that classified the South China tiger into the same category of harmful animals as bears, leopards, and wolves, and called on hunters to "go all out to hunt"; while the Siberian tiger was included in the same category as the giant panda and golden monkey.

, gibbons and other protected animals of the same type can be captured alive but cannot be killed.

In September 1962, the State Council issued instructions to protect and rationally utilize wild animal and plant resources, listing 19 species of animals as animals that are strictly prohibited from hunting and protected in some areas.

The South China tiger was once again excluded.

When the Chinese Communist Party called for the large-scale hunting of South China tigers, the international community became anxious.

In 1966, the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources classified the South China tiger as Class E in the Red Data Book of Mammals, which is the endangered class.

In May 1973, the State Council listed the South China tiger as a third-level protected animal in the "Wild Animal Resources Protection Regulations" (draft).

Also in May 1973, the Ministry of Agriculture banned the hunting of Siberian tigers and Bengal tigers, but still allowed the hunting of South China tigers within controlled quotas each year.

The quantity controlled each year is based on the principle of "planning to ensure continued growth of quantity" by the local agricultural department.

In 1977, the Ministry of Agriculture revised the regulations and finally moved the South China tiger from the black list to the red list.

The Siberian tiger is still the first protected species, while the South China tiger and the Bengal tiger belong to the second category where hunting is prohibited.

In 1979, the Ministry of Agriculture classified the South China tiger as a first-level protected animal.

However, these measures appear to be too late.

It is estimated that in 1981, there were only about 150 to 200 South China tigers left in the wild.

Those who are most worried about the extinction of South China tigers seem to be foreigners.

In April 1986, the "World Tiger Conservation Strategy Academic Conference" held in the United States hastily listed the South China tiger, a specialty of China, as "the highest priority endangered animal in need of international protection."

In 1989, the "Wild Animal Protection Law of the People's Republic of China" promulgated by our country finally included the South China tiger in the list of first-level national protected animals.

For this endangered species, the legal right to exist is belated and seems like a hospice.

Maybe it's unnecessary care.

Because since then, wild South China tigers have completely disappeared from our world.

Many people claim to have discovered their traces, but they only heard their sounds and saw their traces, which is indirect evidence with weak proving force.

In 1996, the International Convention on Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora released by the United Nations International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources listed the South China tiger as the number one endangered species, ranking first among the top ten endangered species in the world, and the most critically endangered species in need of priority protection.

species.

Environmental damage is also very important. Why is the South China tiger an endangered animal? Among the four tiger subspecies currently distributed in my country (Amur tiger, South China tiger, Bengal tiger and Indochinese tiger), only the South China tiger is unique to China.

Before the 19th century, South China tigers were widely distributed in vast areas of the country, mainly in southeastern my country.

After the 20th century, due to various reasons such as changes in the natural environment, war and human activities, the distribution area of ??the South China tiger has been continuously squeezed, and its distribution area has gradually shrunk.

Until the 1980s, due to activities such as hunting and deforestation, the habitats that the South China tiger relied on for survival were destroyed, and the number of South China tigers declined sharply.

According to previous surveys, there are currently only 20 to 30 South China tigers in the wild in China, and only 60 are bred in Chinese zoos. This number is even rarer than giant pandas.

During a recent field expedition, not even a single living wild South China tiger was found, and the South China tiger is on the verge of extinction.