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Poachers Kill 19 Russian Tigers in 2012-13 – WWF
Amur tigersMOSCOW, July 31 (RIA Novosti) – At least 19 endangered Siberian tigers, some of the rarest animals on earth, have been killed by poachers in Russia since 2012, the World Wildlife Fund said Wednesday.
In 2012-2013, Russian investigators launched seven criminal cases against tiger poachers and traders and confiscated the skeletons and body parts from at least 19 dead tigers, Pavel Fomenko, coordinator of the WWF’s branch in Russia's far eastern Amur province, said in a statement.
In August 2008, Putin attached a tracking collar to a Siberian tigress during a visit to the Ussurisky reserve. He was also given a two-month-old Amur tiger cub as a present on his 56th birthday in October 2008. The tigress was named Mashenka and later sent to a zoo in southern Russia.
Poachers Kill 19 Russian Tigers in 2012-13 – WWF | Russia | RIA Novosti
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