Endangered tiger captured on film

A South China tiger has been caught on camera by a hunter-turned-farmer, the first confirmed sighting in 30 years of a subspecies experts had feared was extinct in the wild, China’s official New China News Agency said.

Zhou Zhenglong took more than 70 photos of the young tiger lying in the grass in a mountainous part of central China. Experts confirmed the images showed one of the elusive cats.

In the early 1950s, an estimated 4,000 of the tiger subspecies, one of the world’s smallest and the only one native to central and southern China, roamed the country, but its habitat has been squeezed by the country’s rapid economic growth.