More than 100 cubs have been born in the world's largest
Siberian Tiger breeding base in northeast China's Heilongjiang
Province so far this year, Xinhua News Agency reported on
Monday.
Since its establishment in 1986, the Hengdaohezi feline animal
breeding base, also the world's largest Siberian Tiger breeding
base, has bred over 800 such tigers from only 8 original Siberian
Tigers.
This year, the breeding base took DNA detection as a scientific
means in selecting seeded tigers, effectively avoiding blind
breeding.
The Siberian Tiger, or Northeast Tiger, has been listed an
endangered species. It is mainly spread in northeast China and
Russia's Far East. It is reported that there are only about 400
wild Siberian Tigers left around the world, with less than 20 in
China.
(CRI.cn September 5, 2007)
