Photo: World Wildlife Fund
Two Siberian tigers which had been cared for at a refuge for big cats in the Netherlands have been taken to Kazakhstan where they will live on the Ili-Balkhash nature reserve as part of a World Wildlife Fund repopulation project. Tigers became extinct in Kazakhstan some 70 years ago. The WWF hopes that if the tigers breed successfully, there will be some 50 living in the region by 2035. The tigers were taken from the Netherlands by plane and helicopter in special transport crates. “It is a dream to be able to work with this project and bring back tigers to a country where they are supposed to live,” said Robert Kruijff, director of the Dutch charity Stichting Leeuw which had been looking after the tigers.
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