Welcome. I hardly get any visitors outside the fence, except for a few.
My name is Fang Yin. I’m from China. There are hardly any of us nowadays. Maybe that’s because we are all that’s left.
Who’s “we”? We’re the South China tigers. JenB, Cathay, Madonna, Coco, and Topaz: That’s almost all of us. And we’re all are put in a reserve. We’re extinct in the wild.
You must be wondering how and why I know so much about these human things. I’ve lived my whole life in the reserve. Many humans come and visit us; they feed us, they make sure we do not fall sick, and they have given us an area of protection.
In the past, humans did worse things. Much worse. Or at least that’s what my mother was told by her mother. My mum didn’t dare repeat the gruesome tales she had once heard. She told me to be grateful with what I have now.
But now these humans keep trying to make us give birth to cubs. Yes, please trust that I am female! I’m getting a bit worried. They want our cubs so badly, who knows what they will do to them?
“Hmm? Yeah I’ll be right with you!” I’ve got to go. Topaz is calling. I promised her that I would play a game of tag with her. I’m still worried about what those humans may do to our cubs, and I'm curious about what happened in the past that was so bad that my mother refused to tell me. I’m going to go investigate, and I’ll tell you what I have found out the next time we meet. Till then!
Fang Yin
