TigerTram
TigerTram prowls streets of Hong Kong ( Photographs by Paul Hilton )
Once again a South China tiger prowls the streets of Hong Kong. Once indigenous to Hong Kong, the critically endangered South China tiger is now the world’s most criticially endangered tiger - fewer than 90 remain in captivity and less than 30 in the wild. But a dramatic striped TigerTram is now prowling the glass and concrete jungle of Hong Kong to call attention to the plight of China’s tigers
The tiger on the front of the tram is ‘Madonna’, who was born in a zoo but now hunts prey at a wild life reserve in South Africa along with her own children. The cub on the side is ‘Hulooo’, one of five cubs sired by TigerWoods in our successful breeding program and a symbol of hope for the future of the Chinese tiger”.
Save China's Tigers has taken on an ambitious project to reverse the fate of the South China Tiger from the border of extinction by taking them out of zoos, breeding them, let them regain their hunting abilities and reintroduce them back to China's wild. The Chinese Tiger Reintroduction Project is composed of two main subprojects: firstly the Chinese Tiger Rewilding Programme and secondly the Chinese Tiger Pilot Reintroduction Reserve in China. For more information please visit:http://www.savechinastigers.org/
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