This endangered species is the last remaining subspecies of the Chinese tiger. It is native to the forests and grasslands of southern China and is one of the most critically endangered animals in the world. With fewer than 100 individuals left in the wild, the South China Tiger is on the brink
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.