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Administration for tiger and leopard national park inaugurated

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2017-08-19 15:06:53Xinhua Mo Hong'e ECNS App Download

The administration for the much-anticipated tiger and leopard national park was officially inaugurated Saturday in Changchun, capital of northeast China's Jilin Province.

Launch of of the Northeast Tiger and Leopard National Park Administration is a big step forward in protection of the endangered animals, said Zhang Jianlong, head of the head of the State Forestry Administration.

The state-owned natural resources and assets management bureau of the national park was also launched Saturday.

The Northeast Tiger and Leopard National Park will covers more than 1.46 million hectares. About 71 percent of the area is in Jilin and the rest in the adjacent Heilongjiang Province.

Construction of the park is scheduled to be complete in 2020.

Siberian tigers are one of the world's most endangered species. Wild Siberian tigers predominantly live in northeast China and Russia's far east. The population is below 500. The Amur leopard was put under top national protection in 1983 with only about 50 living in the wild along the Sino-Russian border.

  

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