
Mr Putin was praised by Russian media for saving a television crew from an attack by a Siberian tiger back in 2008. The Russian president apparently saved the crew while on a trip to a national park to see how researchers monitor the tigers in the wild. Just as he was arriving with a group of wildlife specialists to see a trapped Amur tiger, it escaped and ran towards a nearby camera crew, the country's main television station said. Mr Putin quickly shot the beast and sedated it with a tranquilizer gun. The Siberian Tiger is on the Red List of Threatened Species. Reportedly Kuzya, knows how to avoid people and did so well in Russia but in that agricultural area of China, it will be hard for him. In 2010, Russia launched a national strategy to protect the Siberian tiger, the largest of the five tiger species. According to World Wildlife Fund, just 450 Siberian tigers are left on the planet. With regards – S. Sampathkumar
16th Dec 2o14.