What is the ins and outs of the Zhou Tiger incident?

On June 5438+1October 65438+February, 2007, Shaanxi Provincial Forestry Department announced the photos of the South China Tiger taken by hunter Zhou Zhenglong with digital cameras and film cameras, and announced that it would reward Zhou Zhenglong for setting up a special reserve for wild South China tigers. Subsequently, the authenticity of the photos was questioned by some netizens, South China Tiger experts and experts from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which triggered an event of concern in China and even the world.

At the end of June 2008, the government announced that Zhou Zhenglong had forged tiger photos, and 13 officials were punished. 165438+ 10/7. Zhou Zhenglong was sentenced to two years and six months' imprisonment, suspended for three years, for committing fraud and possession of guns and ammunition. 20 10 in early may, Zhou Zhenglong was taken away by the court. After investigation, it was confirmed that Zhou Zhenglong had been sentenced by Ankang Intermediate People's Court to revoke his probation and put in prison to serve his sentence.

20 12 On April 27th, Zhou Zhenglong, the protagonist of the South China Tiger incident, was released from prison. After he was released from prison, he went up the mountain many times to look for the South China Tiger. In order to capture the image of the tiger, several dynamic cameras were installed on the mountain.

expert opinion/advice

Liu Liyuan, Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences, Beijing Normal University: These photos have typical characteristics of tiger footprints, such as palm pads and plum blossom toe prints.

Liu Liyuan told the New Express reporter that most of those footprints were left by tigers on the slope, so there were obvious scratches. On the first footprint, there are four toe prints, and the two toes in the middle form a long chute. Only careful observation can distinguish the footprints of tigers.

And some footprints show the typical characteristics of tiger footprints: the back is a needle-shaped palm pad, and the front is four plum-blossom toes, deeply immersed in the soil. Some of those old footprints can still see the typical characteristics of tiger footprints, and some incomplete footprints can only distinguish the tiger from the local characteristics.

Peking University Institute of Life Sciences: I don't believe there are wild tigers in Daba Mountain. According to a scholar who had an argument with him, Luo's view is: I don't believe there are wild tigers in Daba Mountain, "there will be no sustainable population."