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Kazakhstan Releases First Tiger to Restore an Extinct Species to Its Wild Habitat

Kazakhstan Releases First Tiger to Restore an Extinct Species to Its Wild Habitat

Kazakhstan released a female tiger into the wild on July 31, marking a historic attempt to bring back the big cats, which disappeared from the country in 1948.

Footage released by the Kazakhstan Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources shows the female Amur tiger named Umit leaping from the back of a truck and into the Ile-Balkhash nature reserve.

The Amur tiger is closely related to the extinct Caspian tiger species that lived in Central Asia until the 20th century.

“Today we are witnessing a truly historic event,” said Ecology Minister Erlan Nuralyuly Nysanbaev. “For the first time in more than 70 years since the tiger was extinct in Kazakhstan, the tiger has been returned to its historical habitat.”

Umit was one of four tigers Russia donated to Kazakhstan as part of plans to restore the population that was extinct in Central Asia by the 1970s.

Read more from Al Jazeera.

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