An update in the brouhaha over allegedly faked photos of a South China Tiger. From Xinhua Net, translated by CDT: On October 12, 2007, our office held a news conference, during which we announced that ‘Zhenping County...
Read MoreSouthern Metropolis Daily interviewed a tiger expert, Hu Huijian, on the recent Huanan (South China) tiger dispute. He demonstrated a way to fake the image of the Huanan tiger by taking photos of a paper tiger. Meanwhile, since...
Read MoreThe controversy surrounding the Huanan (South China) tiger photos is finally approaching closure, since Xinhua has announced that experts failed to find any tiger. Months of field survey by experts from the State Forestry...
Read MoreNewly discovered footprints and a recently uncovered skeleton are the latest developments in the South China Tiger story. From Xinhua: State Forestry Administration investigators found more than 100 suspected footprints of a South China tiger on Friday in Shaanxi Province, where photos of the big cat taken by a farmer have caused a national controversy […]
Read MoreThe “South China Tiger” [华南虎］saga continues. Now known as “Tigergate” among Chinese netizens, this event will no doubt be one of the top media/internet stories of 2007. On December 2nd, NetEase (one of...
Read MoreThe Huanan tiger drama is getting more complicated, as Zhou Zhenglong, the farmer who provided the photos, says he intends to go back to the forests and take more tiger photos to defend himself. From AHN: Chinese farmer Zhou Zhenglong, 52, has gone back into the wilderness to take more photos of the tiger, in […]
Read MoreMore hot discussion comes out on Huanan Tiger/South China Tiger. CDT’s Xiao Qiang has some thoughts to share. From The Washington Post: PAPER TIGER?: The South China tiger is alive again in the wild — at least in the Chinese blogosphere… Whether or not the tiger is bogus, the furor shows that “the government agency’s […]
Read MoreThe debate over the discovery of South China Tiger is heating up. Chinese netizens have even participated and made fun of it by rewriting a children’s song, “One Two Three Four Five, Climb the Hill and Kill the...
Read MoreThe Huanan Tiger dispute continues, as the Shaanxi Forestry Bureau is pushing for a genetic verification of the tiger. This is in response to the academic and legal battles over the credibility of the photos and the existence of the once extinct animals in the region, via Xin Yusi BBS: At a 12 October press […]
Read More(The photo by Zhou Zhenglong) A photo taken by a local farmer recorded the vague image of Huanan Tiger/South China Tiger, which had supposedly been extinct for 42 years in mid-western China. The Shaanxi Provincial Forest Ministry held a press conference and granted 20,000 yuan to Zhou Zhenglong who took the picture. The people were […]
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