Last week, the Russian government has announced it will protect the rare Amur leopards and Amur tigers living in a 1,000 square mile in Russia’s Far East.

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Last year, A Russian-U.S. commission agreed to restrict polar bear hunting to 29 bears every year for each of the countries. But Russia’s polar bear program decidednot to allow polar bear hunting in Russia.

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13 countries where tigers still live in the wild participated in a tiger summit in ST. PETERSBURG, Russia and agreed to a program to save the iconic big cats from extinction. The Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio committed $1 million to World Wildlife Fund after helping the group raise $20 million for tiger conservation earlier this year.

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The Russian government decided to create 9 new nature reserves and 13 national parks covering a total area of over 3.8 million ha in addition to marine buffer zones of over 1 million ha. Polar bears, walruses, sea otters, and other endangered species will all benefit from the new protected areas.

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Last Friday, 12 Asian nations and Russia  vowed to double wild tigers number by the year of  2022, this include defending their habitats and prohibit the building of roads and bridges that could harm it.

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