A regular survey has shown that 11 Amur tigers now live in the Jewish Autonomous Region in Russia’s Far East. These include the tiger Boris, tigress Svetlaya and their three 12-month-old cubs. The survey was conducted by experts from the Tiger Centre, the Amur Tiger Centre and the local hunting supervision department.

The increasing tiger population in the region is the result of the successful special programme to study the Amur tiger in the Far East that involves reintroduction of rare animals. “If in 2013, we only recorded one tiger in the Bastak Nature Reserve, now in 2017 there are 11,” said Viktor Kuzmenko, executive director of the Tiger Centre. “Four of them are tigers released into the wild after rehabilitation, and another five are the cubs of the rehabilitated tigers.”