The South China tiger is the typical image everyone thinks when they hear "tiger". When you think of "tiger", don't you think of a great cat with orange fur striped with black?
These felines are critically endangered, along with several other animals like the Amur Leopard, Black Rhino or the Leatherback Turtle. Sixteen species worldwide are critically endangered, which means that they "face an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild," according to World Wildlife.
In fact, South China tigers are already extinct in the wild. No tiger has been spotted in its natural habitat for 25 years. In the early 1950s, there used to be over four thousand individual tigers in the wild. Hunting, even though banned by the late 1970s, caused the rapid decline of the South China tiger population. By 1996 there were only 30-80 individuals left in the wild.
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