A Shanghaiist reader recently encountered people selling tiger claws on the road here in Shanghai. While this is an unfortunately common occurance (very much so around China and even in this city), this encounter is worthwhile as both a reminder of the situation tigers face and a warning about what you should (or shouldn't do) when encountering the people selling illegal animal products. more ›

A post on the Guardian’s Environment Blog today laments over Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s weak showing at the unprecedented International Tiger Forum happening in Russia this week. Contrasting him with Russian president Vladimir Putin (the environmentalist’s Rambo who shoots at whales with crossbows and traps polar bears, all in the pursuit of science!) Wen appears not only timid but apathetic: more ›

After several rounds of competition, the Pambassadors have finally been named . In what we think may be the best job opportunity in the world, these winning hardcore panda-lovers will stay at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding for one month in Chengdu as part of a project seeking to help the endangered species in partnership with the World Wide Fund for Nature. more ›

In much sadder conservation news, the first Siberian tiger cub to be found in the wild in two decades died just two days after being discovered. more ›

One of the many benefits of being in China at the moment is that occurrence of the word "tiger" in our media generally has nothing to do with the fallen golfer. A quick perusal of China Daily turns up a playful laundry list of tiger-striped merchandise on which children of all ages can blow the contents of their red envelopes. In between its shout out to Beijing furniture mega-stores and mention of "tiger head shoes," the article brings up an interesting point for discussion: more ›

We've mentioned before that we will continue to support the baby tiger cause on this site, if only because we feel they always get second billing to baby pandas, despite being evolutionarily superior. China Daily has an absolutely adorable photo gallery up on its site of South China tiger cubs that were bred in Henan province. Four cubs were born at the Wangcheng zoo in Luoyang in April, and now that they're two-months-old and doing very well, they are being called “a major breakthrough in the artificial breeding technique of the endangered species.” The LATimes had more info about this specific tiger breed, noting that South China tigers are physically smaller than their Bengal and Siberian tiger cousins and with more widely spaced stripes. Chairman Mao was not a fan of them, ordering them eliminated because they were "pests." Their number plummeted in the following years and they were thought to be extinct until one was spotted in the wild for the first time in decades in 2007. Go tigers! more ›

Just two days ago, a four-year-old Siberian Tiger at the Changchun Zoo in Jilin gave birth to a healthy little cub. Since we've never quite understood why Tigers were the redheaded stepchild to Giant Pandas in this country (their diets actually make evolutionary sense, for goodness sake!), we've made it our mission to publicize it whenever these furry little creatures take a step back from extinction. Hurrah for Siberian Tigers! more ›

Baby pandas usually get the lion's share of the attention, but did you know China had a serious Siberian tiger breeding program in place as well? A center located to the northwest of Harbin, in Heilongjiang, has been working on churning out tiger cubs since 1986. more ›

We strongly suspect that this is nothing more than a way to parody Airport Auntie while getting the point across that sharks fin soup is a morally reprehensible delicacy... but there's something about watching Hong Kong people wig out that just tickles our fancy. more ›