On 16 December, a five-month-old female tiger cub was captured in the Primorye Territory. She wandered alone for about two weeks around the village of Lazo, the Lazo District, and was caught by employees of the territory’s Department of Hunting Supervision and the Joint Directorate of the Lazovsky Nature Reserve and Call of the Tiger National Park. The cub is currently staying at the Centre for the Rehabilitation and Reintroduction of Tigers and Other Rare Animals (PRNCO “Tiger Centre”) in the village of Alekseyevka, and will remain there for at least a year.

Experts had been watching the female tiger since 30 November, the day when they received information from local residents. The tiger was first spotted near a dump where she was looking for food. Experts made the decision to capture the cub after it became clear that her mother would not come for her. Such young Amur tiger cubs cannot hunt by themselves and would starve to death.

After rescuing the cub, experts from the Lazovsky Nature Reserve and Call of the Tiger National Park continue their search for her mother and monitor the area using camera traps.

At the moment, the Tiger Centre provides rehabilitation care to Vladik, a male tiger, and Filippa, a female tiger, who were also captured in residential areas near Vladivostok.