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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Indonesia is searching for evidence that the Javan tiger, classified as extinct, may actually still exist in the wild. The hunt for proof of the big cat’s survival, which will be conducted with ...

Indonesia was once home to three tiger subspecies: Sumatran tigers (Panthera tigris sumatrae), Javan tigers (P. tigris sondaica), and Bali tigers (P. tigris balica), which lived on the islands of ...

“We conclude that the hair sample,” researchers said, “belongs to the Javan tiger, and that it falls in the same group as the Javan tiger museum specimen collected in 1930.” The finding ...