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There are no types of tigers native to Africa, although there are some that are kept in zoos. All tiger subspecies are native to Asia. In the past, they ranged from the Caucasas Mountains to India, Southeast Asia, Sumatra, Java, China, and Russia, but today the range of tigers has been greatly diminished, and only exists in small, scattered pockets of India, Southeast Asia, Sumatra, and one place in Eastern Russia/Northeastern China.

Additionally, the South China Tiger is the most endangered subspecies of tiger. A program called Save China's Tigers is working to take captive South China tigers and rewild them; that is, teach them how to survive in the wild. It is doing so by slowly introducing them to a fenced off reserve in South Africa created from overgrazed sheep farms specifically for this purpose. The program has been quite successful at breeding these tigers and training them how to live in the wild. In fact, 15 of the fewer than 100 South China tigers alive today live at this wildlife reserve in South Africa.

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