This is stated in a telegram sent to participants in the international festival "Tiger Day" in Vladivostok.

“It is gratifying that in recent years, thanks to the tireless, painstaking work of biologists, ecologists, local historians, volunteers, we managed to achieve serious, tangible results in preserving and increasing the number of the Amur tiger, in creating suitable conditions for this red-book predator to live,” the statement says telegram published on the Kremlin website.

Earlier, Konstantin Chuychenko, the head of the Russian government’s apparatus, chairman of the Amur Tiger Center’s supervisory board, spoke in an interview with RT on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum about the restoration of Amur tigers and the successful fight against poaching.