AR-News: (China) Chinese tigers looking for home along Yangtze River

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www.chinaview.cn 2004-03-04 02:56:22

    　CHANGSHA, March 3 (Xinhuanet) -- Chinese and foreign experts on 
Wednesday completed a three-day survey in Liuyang City, central China's Hunan 
Province, to find a suitable habitat for endangered Chinese tigers to live in the 
wild. 
    The experts from the State Forestry Administration and an international 
fund called "Save China's Tigers" examined a place around a reservoir in 
Liuyang from Monday. Before that, they had studied an area called Zixi, in east 
China's Jiangxi Province. 
    This was an important project by the administration and overseas experts 
to save the endangered species, said one of the experts, Lu Jun, a researcher 
with the administration. 
    The project had two phases. In the first phase, tiger cubs would receive 
training for the wild, and the administration would find a habitat for them by 
2008. The second phase involved openingthe habitats to the public so as to 
fund other rescue projects, said Lu. 
    Two cubs from Shanghai were sent to South Africa in September last year 
for training. Experts have studied areas in the provinces of Jiangxi, Fujian 
and Hunan and in Chongqing Municipality and narrowed the options down to Zixi 
and Liuyang, which are both in the drainage area of China's longest river, the 
Yangtze. 







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http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-03/04/content_1343910.htm 
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