LONDON -- South African authorities were attempting to capture a young tiger on the loose in a Johannesburg suburb on Monday. The 9-month-old female tiger was captured on surveillance video early ...

Tiger farming in South Africa was spawned by the legal breeding of lions for commercial hunting. Lion bone exports towards Asia were also legal until 2019 when a moratorium was put in place ...

South African authorities are searching for a Bengal tiger that escaped from its enclosure and attacked a ... After Years of Serving as 'Human Playthings,' Two Rare White Lions Get to Live on ...

South Africa has no official count of its tiger population. A report by global animal rights charity Four Paws showed that 359 tigers — almost a tenth of the world's tiger population — were ...

Tiger euthanised in South Africa after escaping from private home. By Reuters. January 19, 2023 7:51 AM UTC Updated January 19, 2023 ... The Bengal tiger, an eight-year-old female named Sheba, ...

South Africa is the biggest exporter of tigers in the world and, as pressure increases on captive lion breeding, tiger numbers are expected to rise. There’s something deeply distressing about ...

Up to 8,000 lions live on farms and captive facilities in South Africa, while somewhere between 1,300 and 1,700 adults remain in the wild.A maximum of 20,000 lions survive in Africa as a whole, a ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa— Countries from around the world today banned all commercial trade in wild African lion bones and parts in response to growing evidence that lion parts are increasingly ...

The 8-year-old female Bengal tiger attacked a man and killed several animals. Saturday, June 07, 2025 6:12 pm (Paris) ... Escaped tiger euthanized in South Africa after attacks.

An escaped Bengal tiger which was being kept as a pet is being hunted by police with drones and helicopters after it attacked a dog walker. ... 18 miles from the South African capital of Johannesburg.

JOHANNESBURG, Jan 18 (Reuters) - South African authorities euthanised a tiger on Wednesday after she escaped from an enclosure in a private home, killed several animals and injured a man, raising ...