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MOSCOW (AP) - Russia has established a national park to protect Siberian tigers, an international conservation group said Thursday. The Zov Tigra National Park — the name of which translates from Russian to mean "Roar of the Tiger" — is the first protected area of its kind in Russia's Far East, the World Wildlife Fund said.
The 200,000-acre park will protect the big cat's habitat while simultaneously allowing for nature tourism, according to the WWF.
It is "enormously important for the survival of the world's largest cat," Darron Collins, managing director of WWF's Amur-Heilong Program in the United States, said in a news release.
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