The last confirmed sighting of a Javan tiger was in 1976, but people occasionally report seeing tigers on Java to this day. Recently, the authors of a new study, published March 21 in the journal ...

In 2008, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) declared the Javan tiger, a subspecies of the Sumatran tiger, extinct. More than 20 years later, a conservationist living on the ...

A 2019 sighting by five witnesses indicates that the long-extinct Javan tiger may still be alive, a new study suggests. A single strand of hair recovered from that encounter is a close genetic ...

The Javan tiger was declared extinct in 2008, but new evidence indicates it may not be extinct after all. Photo from Anni Denkova, UnSplash The forests of Java, an island in Indonesia, were once ...

Much more research is needed to be certain, but conservationists say there is now a glimmer of hope the Javan tiger could still be out there, roaming the island’s forests. The Javan tiger ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia — With camera traps and extensive DNA sweeps, Indonesian conservationists are hoping to find more evidence that the Javan tiger, a species declared extinct, actually still ...

The report “should sound the alarm regarding the crisis Sumatra’s Tigers currently face” say its ... Indonesia’s other two tiger subspecies – the Bali and Javan tigers which were pushed ...

Five years ago, Kalih Raksasewu was getting his car tuned when his mechanic shared a curious tidbit: He had stumbled upon a tiger near his ... and especially because Javan tigers have long been ...

The country is hunting for more clues that the extinct Javan tiger may still exist in the wild, a government official said, after a new study suggested links between a DNA-tested hair and the big cat.