South China tiger rescue efforts too little, too late
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Hunting and habitat destruction have brought these magnificent cats perilously close to extinction. Can the most threatened of the sub-species claw its way back? The scratch marks on the tree high in the mountains of Hunan province, south central China, are barely discernible today: four thin vertical lines…