In the early hours of 29 December, a man from the village of Filippovka, the Khasan District, discovered an Amur tiger cub in his own courtyard. The man reported the news to Land of the Leopard National Park. The park’s staff took the tiger cub to the Centre for the Rehabilitation and Reintroduction of Tigers and Other Rare Animals in the village of Alekseyevka in the Primorye Territory.

The experts said the tiger cub, which is about four months old, had come to people in search of food. The animal is starved, and the centre’s specialists are looking after it. Once all the tests have been done, the tiger will undergo treatment and rehabilitation.

“Specialists will have to find out what happened to the tiger cub’s mother and whether it is one of the three tiger cubs seen earlier at the motorway in the Khasan District. Our priority now is to bring the animal back to normal physically and then decide what to do with it.  Our organisation will do its best to save the tiger cub and possibly send it back into the wild,” said Sergei Aramilev, director of the Primorye branch of the Amur Tiger Centre.