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Wide shot Lahou Valley Reserve2. Close up sign Lahou Valley Reserve3. Various Chinese tigers eating in reserve4. Mid shot game warden calling out to one of the cubs called Tigerwoods5. Mid shot tiger 6. Mid shot Li Quan, Head of Save...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Wide shot Lahou Valley Reserve\u003cbr/\u003e2. Close up sign Lahou Valley Reserve\u003cbr/\u003e3. Various Chinese tigers eating in reserve\u003cbr/\u003e4. Mid shot game warden calling out to one of the cubs called Tigerwoods\u003cbr/\u003e5. Mid shot tiger \u003cbr/\u003e6. Mid shot Li Quan, Head of Save China's Tigers Foundation walking along fenced enclosure with tiger\u003cbr/\u003e7. Mid shot tiger stalking\u003cbr/\u003e8. Cutaway Li Quan watching\u003cbr/\u003e9. Mid shot tiger stalking \u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Li Quan, Head of Save China's Tigers Foundation:\u003cbr/\u003e\" Basically what we are trying to do is to re-introduce the South China tigers back to China's wild and to do that it means we to go through an interim step to take the zoo born South China Tigers out of captivity and teach them to hunt before we can re-introduce them back to China's wild. In the meantime we are preparing their habitat in China\".\u003cbr/\u003e11. Close up tiger \u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE : (English) Li Quan, Head of Save China's Tigers Foundation\u003cbr/\u003e\" The timing as to when the tigers will go back to China depends on two factors. One is when they are going to start breeding and the other is when will China be ready to receive them in a wild environment. We are busy with a breeding programme in South Africa and we hope that they do breed as soon as possible when an adult male comes from China, and we hope they breed enough babies so we can send the babies back to China\".\u003cbr/\u003e13. Various of tigers hunting and playing\u003cbr/\u003e14. Wide shot Peter Openshaw, Manager, Lahou Valley Reserve looking through binoculars at the  reserve\u003cbr/\u003e15. Mid shot Peter Openshaw walking in reserve\u003cbr/\u003e16. Mid shot Peter Openshaw looking through binoculars\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English) Peter Openshaw, Manager Lahou Valley Reserve:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The important thing to realise is we don't teach the tigers, we facilitate hunting.  You don't teach your domestic cat to catch mice or birds.  So what we do in this situation is we set up the situation for them. It's a procedure of adaptive management. At first we make it easy for the tigers to catch their live prey. Thereafter as their hunting skills improve we make it more difficult for them.\"\u003cbr/\u003e17. Various Chinese tigers roaming in enclosure \u003cbr/\u003e18. Close up International Fund for Animal Welfare Southern Africa  (IFAW) sign \u003cbr/\u003e19. Exterior of IFAW building\u003cbr/\u003e20. Set up shots Dr. Ian Robinson, IFAW\u003cbr/\u003e21. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr. Ian Robinson, IFAW:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Captive breeding and release back to the wild can be a useful part of conservation, but its only part of conservation. The most important thing when trying to bring an endangered species back from the brink of extinction is to have the habitat  which the animal requires to live and also have  protection of that habitat so that the animal is safe there. If these conditions are met then captive breeding and release into areas where animals are lost can be a useful tool.\" \u003cbr/\u003eVNR Save China's Tigers Foundation, October 2004. \u003cbr/\u003e22. Wide shot tigers being taken off a plane in boxed cages zooms in to mid shot. \u003cbr/\u003e23. Various tigers taken to the  Lahou Valley reserve and set free.\u003cbr/\u003e24. Various tiger walking in the reserve.\u003cbr/\u003eThree Chinese Tiger cubs that were born in captivity are learning the skills they will need if they are one day a released into the wild at a reserve in South Africa. \u003cbr/\u003eThe Save China's Tigers Foundation hope the cubs will learn fend for themselves at the reserve before taking them back to China and introducing them to the wild.  \u003cbr/\u003eHowever some animal conservation groups have expressed some concerns about the programme.  \u003cbr/\u003eThree years ago Li Quan, head of Save China's Tigers Foundation persuaded the Chinese Government to allow four zoo bred tiger cubs to come to the rural plains of this semi-desert region in South Africa.\u003cbr/\u003eConservationists at the Lahou Valley Reserve have been working to teach Tigerwoods, Cathay and Madonna  to hunt and survive in the wild. \u003cbr/\u003e The fourth tiger called Hope unfortunately died whilst at the reserve.\u003cbr/\u003eLi Quan says they are trying to introduce the South China tigers back into the wild and are preparing their habitat back in China whilst they are training the animals. \u003cbr/\u003eAn adult male tiger is due to be introduced to the reserve as part of a breeding programme. \u003cbr/\u003eIt is hoped that the tigers will pass their newly learned skills onto their offspring so that the next generation of South China tigers will be prepared for the wild from birth. \u003cbr/\u003eLi Quan says the foundation is currently concentrating on a breeding programme in South Africa. \u003cbr/\u003eShe hopes the tigers breed as soon as possible and breed enough babies so they can send the cubs back to China. \u003cbr/\u003eThe semi-desert terrain at the Lahou Valley Reserve is made up of grass and scrubland. \u003cbr/\u003eThis has worried some conservationists who say the geographical landscape is not similar to that of China's Wildlife Reserves.\u003cbr/\u003ePeter Openshaw, Manager Lahou Valley Reserve says that they are not teaching the animals to hunt. \u003cbr/\u003eHe says they facilitate a hunting situation for the animals and then make it progressively harder for them so that they adapt to fending for themselves. \u003cbr/\u003eThe South China tigers are the most critically endangered of all tiger subspecies. \u003cbr/\u003eForty years ago there were approximately four thousand tigers living in central and eastern China. \u003cbr/\u003eThe Save China's Tigers Foundation says that only 30 to 80 still exist in the wild. A further 64 tigers live in zoos.\u003cbr/\u003eThe World Wildlife Fund say that the species is on the verge of extinction with only 20 to 30 tigers remaining in the wild. \u003cbr/\u003eBut whist some conservationists have expressed some concerns about the the programme. \u003cbr/\u003eDr Ian Robinson from the International Fund for Animal Welfare Southern Africa says that although the correct habitat is vital for the well being of an animal captive breeding and release back into the wild can be a useful part of conservation. \u003cbr/\u003eWhen the tigers arrived at the reserve as cubs three years ago it didn't take long for them to settle in to their new surroundings. \u003cbr/\u003eNow Li Quan hopes that Tigerwoods, Cathay, Hope and Madonna's cubs will settle back just as easily when they return home. \u003cbr/\u003eKeyword-animals wacky\u003cbr/\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='action-container flex justify-between'\u003e\n\u003cbutton 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