On 29 July, the Moscow Zoo hosted International Tiger Day. The celebrations began with a “striped quest” for the tigers’ enclosure.

Children were encouraged to take part in quizzes, competitions, workshops and two tours of Russia’s Red Data Book, during which they learned about the rare and endangered species that live in the Moscow Zoo.

International Tiger Day, celebrated every 29 July, was instituted in 2010 at the International Tiger Forum, also known as the Tiger Summit. The festival is primarily used to raise public awareness of the endangered tiger species and ways to protect these animals.

The Amur tiger is one of the rarest animal species in the world. The Amur tiger subspecies is on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. In Russia, the Amur tiger lives in the Primorye and Khabarovsk territories of the Far Eastern region that borders on China.