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In March Cinderella continued to hunt rather professionally. Her prey animals were deer and boars. The tigress is 18 months old now. At this age young tigers begin their independent life in the wild nature. The final phase in Cinderella’s hunting training is the search of a prey (deer) in the neighboring open-air...

During the first week of January 2013 residents of Svetlogorye village, Pozharsky district of Primorye, found tiger cub paw prints near the human settlement.  Although there were no conflict cases yet, local people started getting nervous and informed local law enforcement agencies about the young predator. Tiger...

The first week of December 2012 marked the busiest days at the Amur Tiger Rehabilitation Centre located in Alekseevka village (Primorsky krai, Russian Far East). The centre has admitted new patients - three Amur tiger cubs –that were found in the woods without their mother in late November. The Phoenix Fund and...

In Russia, for many years tiger specialists used two facilities for tigers in need, namely Utyos Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre and Dr.Yudin's facility which for several reasons did not meet necessary requirements for wildlife care. For example, Utyos Centre is located in Khabarovksy krai, and it takes up to 8-10 hours to...

Almost five months spent the survivor tiger cub in the recently built rehabilitation center. With generous donations from our supporters on GlobalGiving the Phoenix Fund provides the Inspection Tiger that is responsible for rehabilitation of the tigress funds to feed and nurse the animal.  To observe the condition of...

An exhausted tiger cub that showed up at a hunter's hut in Primorsky province in late February recovered completely.  The Inspection Tiger specialists took care of the the cub that was transported it to a new Tiger Rehabilitation Centre. On February 25th, the hunters found the six-month-old tiger cub in a forest near...

An orphaned tiger cub was found on Monday, February 25, in a very poor condition by the hunters of Borisovsky hunting estate. Specialists of Primorsky Hunting Management Department took measures to rescue of the cub and investigate the situation. The found animal was so exhausted that it could be taken practically...

"The rehabilitation center is already constructed and is almost completely ready for use. Now experts finish last preparations before it will be opened for the first animals", - the director of rehabilitation center told us. As he said, open-air cages of the new rehabilitation center are constructed on territory of three...

Hopefully in summer all tigers live in prosperity, hunger no longer drives them close to the settlements and we hear nothing about human-tiger conflicts. But almost every winter severe weather conditions force predators towards villages in search of easy game. Every year tiger cubs lose their mothers and become orphans....