{"id":42165,"date":"2024-10-02T13:27:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T11:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/44890911-8b61-492d-a45c-8862df0ad5f5"},"modified":"2024-10-02T14:28:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T12:28:46","slug":"it-gives-me-goosebumps-rare-amur-tigers-return-to-kazakhstan","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/rss_feed\/it-gives-me-goosebumps-rare-amur-tigers-return-to-kazakhstan\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt gives me goosebumps.” Rare Amur tigers return to Kazakhstan"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first phase of a pioneering conservation project has seen two tigers moved from the Netherlands to Ile-Balkhash Nature Reserve in Kazakhstan. <\/p>

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Published: Wednesday, 02 October 2024 at 11:27 AM<\/p>

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\u201cI have to pinch myself this is happening,\u201d says WWF\u2019s Tigers Alive leader Stuart Chapman. \u201cI look at that photo of the tiger being released into the enclosure, and it gives me goosebumps.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>

Chapman is referring to a pioneering project that could see Amur tigers \u2013\u00a0the big cats found today only in Russia\u2019s Far East \u2013\u00a0reintroduced to the Ile-Balkhash Nature Reserve<\/a>, a 7000km^{2<\/sup>\u00a0area of grasslands, forests and wetlands in the south-east corner of Kazakhstan.<\/p>}

If it goes ahead, it will be the first ever tiger reintroduction to a country from where they have been extirpated \u2013\u00a0tigers have only ever been translocated within national boundaries in the past.<\/p>