Global News - July 2007
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Rare tigers born in zoo
Fri 27 July 2007 12:30 UK — Europe
Two new births at a zoo in Romania will help one of the world's most endangered species survive a little longer.
Reuters reports that two Siberian tiger cubs were born at a Romanian zoo earlier this year (May 21st).
However, breeders only announced the births yesterday (July 26th).
Native to northern China, southern Russia and parts of North Korea, Siberian tigers are on the brink of extinction and only a few hundred are believed to survive in the wild. The animals have been put under threat principally from poaching and the loss of habitat.
Liliana Stancu, chief of a zoo in the city of Galati in eastern Romania, told Reuters: "It is a miracle … Their mother was extraordinary, accepting them, carefully looking after and feeding them from the very beginning.
"Without her help it would have been almost impossible for the little tigers to survive ... we try not to touch the cubs so as to not scare the mother into loosing the milk."
The worldwide population of Siberian tigers fell to below 50 in the 1930s but has very slightly recovered since as breeding programmes and conservation efforts have proved moderately successful.
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