Authorities Kill 2 Rare Snow Tigers
From Times Wire Reports
Wildlife officials in Russia’s Far East killed two rare Siberian snow tigers this week after the large, carnivorous animals lost their fear of people and began frequenting villages, the Interfax news agency reported. The Amur tigers live in dense forests on the Pacific coast near China and are facing extinction because of poaching and habitat encroachment. Only about 300 of the tigers remain in the wild.
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