Tigers in artwork through the years

This is one of several watercolor portraits of the tiger by Eugene Delacroix. It come from a book called Noble Beasts: Animals in Art, which is a book full of collections of various pictures from the National Gallery of Art all the way in Washington, D.C. It is credited all the way back to the year 1830.

This is a photo taken from the website dated at 2013 in September, chinatoday.com.cn, and it is for a promotion of saving the endangered species. It talks about how since the 1980s, the Chinese government has been trying to strengthen efforts in order to stop poaching, etc. It is stated that the tiger population has dropped from 100,000 to 3, 500 over the past 100 years, according to a chief engineer of Department of Wildlife Conservation and Nature Reserve Management of the State Forestry Administration, Yan Xun. In 2010, heads of govrnement from 13 nations agreed to a Global Tiger Recovery Program which hopes to double the population of tigers in the wild by 2022. So, there is much more hope for the recovery of tigers. China has even stopped the use of tiger bones in medicine and trade of parts.