COULD YOU BRIEFLY INTRODUCE
THE CHINA TIGER REVIVAL AND THE LAOHU VALLEY RESERVE (LVR) IN SOUTH AFRICA? WHAT WAS YOUR INSPIRATION?
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In October 2000, I launched China Tiger Revival (formerly Save China’s Tigers) in the Chine embassy in London in the UK. The ambitious project aims to rever the fate of the Chine tigers by breeding them, helping them regain their natural hunting abilities and reintroducing them back into China’s wild.
Laohu Valley Rerve is located near the small town of Philippolis, Free State in South Africa, with an area
of 33,000 hectares. It stretches right over Orange River with 1/3 of the area in Northern Cape and the other 2/3 in Free State. The unique rerve is made up of 17 chunks of defunct sheep farms.
I was born in the Year of Tiger
and have always loved cats, especially the tiger. I’ve thought that conrvation is the coolest thing ever since I visited the South Luwanga National Park in Zambia. I was deeply touched by the beautiful anim
als living freely.
WHEN YOU WERE INTERVIEWED BY THE XINHUA NEWS AGENCY, THEY MENTIONED THAT, IN THE BEGINNING, THE FIRST TWO TIGERS—CATHAY
AND HOPE—WERE AFRAID OF LIVE CHICKENS BEFORE THEY WERE REHABILITATED. ON JULY 25, 2004, THEY CAUGHT THEIR FIRST EVER BUSHBUCK AND ATE IT. ARE THERE ANY OTHER INTERESTING SUCCESS STORIES?
Well, I would like to share the story of Tiger Woods and Madonna. At the beginning of November 2004, Tiger Woods and Madonna arrived aged eight and ven months respectively. The cubs flew directly from Beijing via Hong Kong to Johannesburg and were again flown to Laohu Valley by the Bateleurs. The cubs were houd in a 0.2 hectare quarantine camp
for the first month of their stay at LVR. During this time, they were fed meat from the butchery, but within the first week of their arrival they were given hare carcass. Both cubs devoured the hares completely, including the skin and bones. By the end of the quarantine period, they also got their first large carcass—a springbok. In contrast to Hope and
Tigers Study Abroad
An interview with Quan Li, founder of China Tiger Revival
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Quan Li
Profession: founder of
China Tiger Revival
Nationality: Belgian
Beijing born and bred, Quan
Li worked in fashion in Italy
prior to founding the China
Tiger Revival Charity. In 2002,
Quan established the Laohu
Valley Rerve as a platform
for the re-wilding of zoo-born
South China tigers (Panthera
tigris amoyensis) and
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biodiversity conrvation.
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2005, Madonna and Tiger Woods were again “upgraded” to a larger enclosure, this time to a 9 hectare camp. This enclosure also has a river running through it, and the cubs could be en playing in the running water. At the same time, blesbucks (a type of antelope) were also introduced into
this camp. For the first two weeks, both cubs simply chad the blesbucks
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was some kind
of game. And
When Tiger Woods did bring down
a blesbuck, it was often Madonna
who gave the final bite to the neck
while Tiger Woods held it in place.
OTHER THAN THE TIGERS, DOES
CHINA TIGER REVIVAL HAVE ANY
OTHER CONSERVATION PROJECTS IN
CHINA?
We made the South China tigers
our current focus, as they are
the most endangered subspecies
of tiger and most ignored by the
conrvation world. We are, of
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all tigers (four subspecies found in
China) and big wild cats and hope
to give our attention to them in
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the chain by protecting the tigers’ habitat. Setting up a pilot rerve in areas where wild tigers might still exist will also help to protect bears, leopards, wild boars, antelopes and wild goats.
CAN CHINESE TIGERS EVEN ADAPT TO SOUTH AFRICA? COULDN’T THEY ADAPT JUST AS WELL IN CHINA? Having lived most of their life
in small cages in zoos, the tigers need some time to adapt
to the natural environment in South Africa. Cathay, Hope, Tiger Woods and Madonna have proved to us that once they are ud to the nature there, it will be much easier for them to adapt to other environments—China or abroad. The tiger is very adaptable. From Siberia to Sumatra, it appeared almost everywhere in Asia, before humans threatened their very
existence. Now, tigers live in zoos all
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小老鼠和泡泡糖over the world. Unlike pandas, tigers
usually do not get air-conditioned
cages or any other special
treatment. So, we have every reason
to believe that the Chine tiger can
adapt just as well to South Africa as
they would the wild in China.
WHEN CAN THE TIGERS COME BACK TO
CHINA? IS THERE A TIME SCHEDULE?
Rewilding and reintroduction is a
gradual process. When the cubs
grow up, it will be the time to
reintroduce cond-generation
tigers back into China. The State
Forestry Administration of China
is working with various levels of
government authorities in an effort
to reintroduce the first ones in China
in 2013 or 2014. We plan to initially
nd four or five tigers back to test
the adaptation process. Not all the
tigers will go back home at once; it
depends on the development and
construction of the pilot rerve
in China as well as the success of
the tigers' reintroduction in China.
As there is no reference for the
reintroduction project, we have to be
very careful.
DO YOU HAVE ANY TIPS ON HOW
HUMANS AND NATURE CAN BETTER
LIVE TOGETHER?
I believe every human, in every
country and climate, should find
ways to co-exist with nature in such
a way that a pristine environment
can be left for the future. I don’t have
children of my own, but I hope tho
with children will take care to build
an interest in their family to prerve
the planet for the future.
- ALICIA ZHANG (张华阳)
Quan Li pos with her beloved Tiger Woods
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