National Threatened Species Day commemorates Tasmania tiger death
ABC South West WA Bunbury. South West Mornings. 07 Sep 2009 10:11AM
National Threatened Species Day commemorates the death of the last Tasmanian tiger at the Hobart Zoo in 1936. According to Syd Slee Tasmanian tigers are still alive and well. Slee says he has been living almost 80 yrs on a property next to the state forest, where he has sited the Tasmanian tigers. He says when he was a boy, he caught one in a trap, but no one showed any interest in the animal, so he discarded the body in the bush. Slee describes the characteristics of the tiger. He believes the reported extinction of the species is a cover up. Compere asks whether Slee is confusing what he believes to be the tigers with wild cats. Slee says he has spotted the distinctive foot prints of the Tasmanian tigers, which cannot be wild cat prints.
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