A video documenting the monitoring of the Barbary tiger in the Algerian desert
The Atlas tiger or the Barbary tiger is a type of tiger that lives in North Africa, and it was common to see it in the Atlas Mountains between the Algerian and Moroccan borders and in the Sahara Desert, but today, because of its hunting, killing, and lack of prey, its number has diminished and it has completely disappeared from view.
There have been several expeditions to search for these elusive animals, but all these efforts were of no avail.
Fortunately, the Algerian researcher and director Radwan Taheri was able, by simple means, to monitor new traces of this lost and rare tiger in the Algerian desert, after it disappeared from the world for more than half a century.
And director Taheri revealed, during the last episode of the Al-Sawara Al-Bariyah documentary series, exclusive pictures and scientific evidence of the presence of the Atlantic leopard in this region.
The researcher Tahraoui also confirmed that with this new discovery, the global biological map will be modified and the tiger will be recorded in the wilderness of Algeria.
It should be noted that the last individual representing the Barbary Leopard dynasty died on December 24, 2007 in a tiger sanctuary in Carolina, USA, after contracting an incurable disease that led to his condition deteriorating.
The Barbary leopard was spread across the coastal forests, and it is believed that the last individual killed in the north of the country was in 1960 in the east on the Tunisian border, specifically in Haderat al-Kala.
The Barbary tiger is distinguished by being shorter than the African tiger and its body is more full, and in 2006 research proved the presence of traces of the Barbary tiger in southern Algeria in the Hoggar after studying the effects of this animal, and it was rediscovered in Morocco in 2007, and some sources indicated that there are about 30
Berber tigers in Sister Morocco live in isolated and uninhabited areas in the Atlas Mountains.
This picture is of the last tiger, killed in 1900 in the mountains between Larbaa and Tablat, on the banks of Wadi Beni Zerman (currently separating the states of Blida and Medea) south of Algiers, and the tiger’s skin is displayed to this day in the municipality of Bougara.
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