‘Tiger Years’ lost?
NZPA-Reuter Peking China, which recently welcomed the Year of the Tiger with gongs, cymbals and fireworks, now had only 200 of the animals living in the wild and even they may be gone by the time the next Tiger Year comes round in 1998, a top daily newspaper said. The overseas edition of the “People’s Daily” quoted an official as saying there were four types of tigers in different parts of China, “but even the most optimistic estimates do not put the total number at higher than 200.” “We must do more to publicise the need to preserve the tigers, especially among young people, otherwise there may not be even one tiger left in China when the next Year of the Tiger arrives,” it said.
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Press, 21 February 1986, Page 26
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