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Selected tiger cubs from Chinese zoos will be sent to South Africa, where they will be trained to hunt in a 300-square-kilometre area secured by the two organisations. Once able to hunt their own food, they will be returned to a pilot reserve in China where the habitat and prey animals have been restored.
The first "rehabilitated" tigers are expected to be released into the wild in 2008, coinciding with the Beijing Olympics, and thereafter will become the focus of eco-tourism ventures.
The Chinese tiger is thought to be the species from which all other tigers evolved, but like tigers everywhere in Asia it has been threatened with extinction by human encroachment and deforestation, and by hunters seeking to sell its skins.
The founder of Save China's Tigers, Li Quan, hopes more than a dozen endangered species can be preserved along with the tiger, which operates at the apex of a widespread food chain.
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