Global InformationLaohu Valley Reserve information
| Laohu Valley Reserve | |
|---|---|
 South China tiger chasing blesbucks in Laohu Valley | |
  Location of Laohu Valley | |
| Location | Northern Cape and Free State provinces, South Africa |
| Nearest city | Philippolis |
| Coordinates | 30°17′14.0″S 25°06′20.2″E / 30.287222°S 25.105611°E |
| Area | 350 km2 (140 sq mi) |
| Established | 2002 |
| Governing body | Protected areas of South Africa |
| savechinastigers | |
The Laohu Valley Reserve (LVR) is a nature reserve located near Philippolis in the Free State and near Vanderkloof Dam in the Northern Cape of South Africa.[1][2] It is a roughly 350-square-kilometre private reserve.
It has been created with the aims of nurturing captive-born South China tigers (Panthera tigris tigris) in South Africa and eventually releasing them into the wild in China. It is also aimed to restore South African biodiversity in the parts of the reserve not populated by tigers.
- ^ Rare tigers raised in Africa to be rewilded in China
- ^ "Free State breeds extinct China Tiger". 3 February 2012. Retrieved 16 June 2015.