President Vladimir Putin pioneered the rehabilitation of the giant Amur tiger several years ago, moving it to its natural habitat in the country’s east.
Villagers and pets have been injured or killed in a series of attacks by one of the world’s largest cats in Russia.
President Vladimir Putin pioneered the rehabilitation of the giant Amur tiger several years ago, moving it to its natural habitat in the country’s east.
But the number of endangered species is rapidly increasing, with more than 750 big cats, each weighing up to 30 stone, remaining in the wild and posing a threat to local residents. In December, a man named Victor S. died from severe injuries to the animal after his dog was eaten by the same animal. This is the latest of several attacks on humans.
According to his wife, the man “went to the village of Ober, Khabarovsk region, to look for the place where the dog was killed.” I saw traces of blood in the snow. The Amur Tiger Center, which is responsible for protecting Amur tigers in Russia, released a statement saying, “We would like to express our sincere condolences to the relatives and friends of the deceased.” Shocking videos have now been released showing a series of attacks on guard dogs by roaming Amur tigers.
In one incident, a trained guard dog was killed by a tiger at Russia’s border crossing with China in the vast Khabarovsk region. Last weekend, a tiger killed a guard dog in the village of Kutuzovka, south of the city of Khabarovsk, and another tiger was eaten, probably by the same big cat, in the village of Srednehorsky, about 40 miles away.
In neighboring Primorsky Krai, a family guard dog was brutally killed in Kuguki, north of Vladivostok. Earlier this month, a large guard dog weighing 60 kg was killed in the Anuchinsky district of Primorsky Krai.
Last month, there were incidents of tiger attacks on dogs in at least three villages. Last year, in an unusual incident in eastern Russia, a wild tiger jumped through the window of a remote house and attacked 19-year-old fisherman Sergei Kyarunjuga. The beast, clearly weakened by hunger, broke the glass as it lunged at him, seriously injuring the man. In the Khabarovsk region, his cousin took a gun and shot the animal dead.
One theory is that humans are destroying the tiger’s natural habitat, making it impossible for the tiger to find its usual prey. Poaching remains a threat to tigers and nearly wiped them out in the wild during the Soviet era.
“in my view, [increased tiger attacks are] It is associated with the destruction of predator habitat through logging and overhunting. [the tiger’s prey] And African swine fever has decimated the remaining wild boar population,” zoologist Sergey Kolchin said in the environmental news agency Kedor.