Siberian tiger population up
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THE population of once-endangered wild Siberian tigers has achieved recovery growth in northeast China over the past decade, research has found.
Approximately 28 Siberian tigers, as well as 42 Amur leopards, have been spotted in the forests in northeast China’s Jilin Province, according to a decade-long survey by the Jilin Provincial Forestry Department and Beijing Normal University unveiled in March.
Whereas, a 1998 project by US and Russian scientists showed there were only six to nine Siberian tigers and three to seven Amur leopards in the area.
The country’s crackdown on poaching and protection measures have contributed to the growth, said Lang Jianmin, director of the scientific research and publicity center of the Hunchun National Siberian Tiger Nature Reserve in Jilin.
As an increasing number of wild Siberian tigers roam the China-Russia border, experts have suggested a cross-border nature reserve to provide a favorable environment for the tiger migration.
The barbed wire on the border should be removed and a state-level Siberian tiger nature reserve should be jointly built by China and Russia so that the tiger population would continue to grow, said Jiang Guangshun, deputy director of the feline animal research center under the State Forestry Administration.
Siberian tigers mainly live in east Russia, northeast China and northern parts of the Korean Peninsula. Less than 500 Siberian tigers are believed to survive in the wild.
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