Siberian tiger rescued from poacher's snare
(MARCH 9, 2004) Scientists from the Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society and other groups working in the Russian Far East released a Siberian tiger last week, after rescuing it from a snare set out by poachers. ...The eight-to-10-year-old male tiger, estimated to weigh almost 400 pounds, was discovered by two Russian students hiking in the woods after they heard it roaring in distress....First-ever photo of wild Siberian tiger taken in China
... ... ......NEW YORK (Feb. 6) -- A remote camera clicked the first known photograph of a wild Siberian or Amur tiger in northern China last week, providing strong evidence that tigers are crossing from the Russian Far East to repopulate previous tiger strongholds, the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) announced today. ...The tiger was photographed in Jilin Province's Hunchun...China to declare new reserve for Siberian tigers
......NEW YORK With assistance from the Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), the Chinese government will create a new protected area along its border with Russia in order to safeguard the nations remaining population of endangered Siberian (Amur) tigers and Far Eastern leopards. ... The agreement by Chinas Jilin Forestry Department to establish the Jilin Hunchun nature reserve i....St. Paul, Minn. Siberian foresters think so. Four foresters from the Russian Far East will visit Minnesota April 30 May 4 to find out if forestry practices in Minnesota provide a key to the tigers survival. On a field tour sponsored by the US Agency for International Development and assisted by the USDA Forest Service, foresters will observe the successful regeneration of eastern white pine....RICHLAND, Wash. -- Though the Cold War has ended, its legacy lives on in.Russia's West Siberian Basin as radioactive waste from nuclear weapons material production travels in.the groundwater and may be threatening the health of humans and the ecosystem there. . Fifty.years ago, Russian scientists began discharging this liquid radioactive waste into nearby rivers and.open reservoirs. About a d...