The Amur Tiger Centre has recently published a report on its performance in 2017, the year which had been declared the Year of the Environment and the Year of Protected Areas in Russia. The report includes general information about the centre and the Amur tiger population in Russia, as well as a detailed description of the centre’s projects and events, such as supporting hunting supervision in the Amur tiger habitat, creating a network of scientific environmental stations, rehabilitating and reintroducing the Amur tiger (for instance, releasing tigers Filippa and Vladik into the wild after their rehabilitation at the Centre for the Rehabilitation and Reintroduction of Tigers and Other Rare Animals), organising the annual Tiger Day in the Far East, hosting the Best Letter Writing contest, and participating in various international conferences and forums.

“Environmental protection was number one on the state’s agenda,” said Konstantin Chuychenko, chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Amur Tiger Centre, in his message of greetings. “At last we started paying out debts to nature, which public organisations have been calling for. Protecting the environment has become an honourable thing to do, let alone a popular one.” In his opening address to review the organisation’s performance, Sergei Aramilev, director general of the Amur Tiger Centre, noted: “It is mostly people of the region that help preserve the Amur tiger in its natural habitat. If not for them, both the state’s and non-commercial organisations’ effort would be wasted.”