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Nature 449, 16-18 (6 September 2007) | doi:10.1038/449016a; Published online 5 September 2007

Tigers in trouble: Year of the tiger

Jerry Guo1

  1. Jerry Guo is a freelance writer in New Haven, Connecticut, reporting from China.
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Dubious science and looming legalization of the tiger trade threaten to derail China's efforts to save the Siberian tiger. Jerry Guo goes to the world's largest tiger-breeding facility to investigate.

The automated gates chug and clatter open as a jeep, its windows ribbed with steel, noisily announces its arrival in the tiger park. Without the usual gaggle of tourists to impress, the occupants of a neighbouring jeep toss out a skinny pheasant as the driver shouts obscenities at a dozen lounging Siberian tigers.

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