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Russian Tiger Summit, 2010

In early November, when WILD9 was in full-frenzy, I received an up-lifting email from one of our guest bloggers, Kathleen Braden, who keeps us abreast of environmental news in Russia (Read Kathleen’s previous blog posts).   She reported that the government of Russia would host a summit in September 2010 on saving the Amur tiger. 

Big Cat Rescue reports: Igor Chestin, Director of the Russian branch of WWF said that scientists decided to use Oriental calendar and the coming year of the Tiger to promote public awareness of the situation with Amur tigers.

The Amur tiger, also known as the Siberian, Amur, Manchurian, Altaic, Korean, North China or Ussuri tiger is a subspecies of tiger which once ranged throughout Western and Central Asia and eastern Russia, though it is now completely confined to the Amur-Ussuri region of Primorsky Krai and Khabarovsk Krai in far eastern Siberia, where it is now protected.   Estimates show that there are only 350-450 Amur tigers living in the wild.

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