Inhabitants of the Ussuriysky National Park in Russia's Primorye region
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© The photo was contributed by the Russian Academy of Sciences’ permanent exhibition on the study of Russian endangered species and other major representatives of the country’s fauna
A female Siberian tiger which received a tracking collar from Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin last year has been found with a cub after going missing for three months, Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov said
He said a tracking collar was also put on the cub's neck. In the foto: Young male tiger with a GPS-Argos tracking collar in the Ussuriysky National Park
Young male tiger in the Ussuriysky National Park
A Himalayan bear with cubs in the Ussuriysky National Park
A male Manchurian wapiti in the Ussuriysky National Park
A male raccoon dog in the Ussuriysky National Park
On Sunday, August 31, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited the Reserve of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Far Eastern Department, gaining an insight into a program to study and preserve the Ussuri tiger population.
A female Ussuri tiger, immobilized with a tranquilizer rifle. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin put a GPS-Argos transmitter neckstrap on a five year-old tigress, during a visit to the Ussuri Reserve in Russia's Far East
August 31, 2008. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, left, and Senior Researcher of the Ecology and Evolution Problems Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences Viktor Lukaretsky, right, looking over a five year-old tigress, temporarily immobilized by scientists, during a visit to the Ussuri Reserve in the Far East.
