Actor Jackie Chan supported Save China's Tigers, an organization aiming to rebuild a healthy tiger population and reintroduce them to protected Chinese reserves.
A field survey conducted in 2001 and 2002 across eight reserves found no evidence of wild South China tigers, though researchers noted a few might persist.
A 2015 study at South Africa's Laohu Valley Reserve showed that captive-born tigers fitted with GPS collars could successfully hunt free-ranging prey.