Little Introduction
Human inference is the biggest threat to the South China Tigers. There are 4 major threats poaching (taking the animals skin for sale), extermination (killing a group of animal), climate change and habitat destruction. Humans hunted the South China tigers as pests.
Habitat Destruction
In order to live in the wild, any tigers need to drink water, animals to feed, and plants to camouflage. As the mountains, jungles, forests (from humans cutting down trees to make unnecessary paper), and long grasses start to disappear (from humans taking space to build houses for humans or roads). People dumping chemicals into the rivers (water pollution), electric damps. Soon the South China Tigers will disappear too, just like their homes, one by one, community by community. It also push the tigers into a smaller and smaller areas of land, smaller and smaller places to live in.
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The tigers only can walk on car roads. They are locked up for protection.
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Poaching
Humans kill the South China Tigers for the fur, and even skin! Long time ago in China, the kings use the tigers fur to sit on. The tigers fur mean loyalty and bravery. The tigers head would hang from the top of the roof, it would look down to where the king sits. The tigers coat would be a mat or a seat warmer. The fur looks better on the animal than on your chair.
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Humans poach their skin and bones.
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What would happen if the South China Tigers are extinct?
With out South China Tigers, the population of the tufted deer, sambar, muntjac and wild pig's population will grow rapidly and that would cause over populated animals, and the grasses and
herbs won't be enough for the herbivores to eat. A quote from scientists studying about the South China Tigers. "A program to preserve the fiber cells of the tiger has been begun to clone the tiger using living cells once the technology is mature," said Huang. "Even if the South China Tiger becomes extinct, there's still hope of us still seeing the tiger again, as long as the genes are preserved," said Wang Xingjin. |