Russia will help its neighboring country restore the Amur tiger population.

Chuychenko: Russia will transfer two Amur tigers to Kazakhstan in 2026 to restore the species' population.

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Russia will transfer two Amur tigers to Kazakhstan in 2026 as part of a program to restore the species' population in the republic. This was announced by Russian Justice Minister Konstantin Chuichenko, head of the Amur Tiger Center's supervisory board.

He noted that a neighboring country is running a project to restore the Turanian tiger population, and Russia is also participating.

"Next year, we plan to transfer two individuals, which will be released in Kazakhstan, so that monitoring can begin," Chuichenko said.

The minister added that these could be conflict-prone individuals after rehabilitation. Chuychenko clarified that the first phase of a rehabilitation and reintroduction center, where the conflict-prone individuals will be kept, opened in Primorye on Saturday. Once they are trained, they will be released into their natural habitat. These tigers will form a group that will inhabit Kazakhstan.

The Turanian tiger is an extinct population of a tiger subspecies that inhabited Kazakhstan and other Central Asian countries, as well as Iran, the Caucasus, Afghanistan, and eastern Turkey. In Kazakhstan, the tiger became extinct by 1947.

The situation with poaching of Amur tigers in Russia has previously become known.

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