Visits to "Anyui" national park suspended due to tiger attack

The Anyuysky National Park in Khabarovsk Krai has suspended the issuance of permits for tourists to visit the glamping site "Protected Places" and tourist routes "Anyuyskie Perekaty" and "Tiger Trails". The decision was made by the management of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Zapovednoe Priamurie" after the attack of an Amur tiger on a man.

The incident occurred on December 14 on the territory of the tourist complex on the northeastern border of the national park, near the Bogbasu River. As IA AmurMedia reports with reference to the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Zapovednoe Priamurie", the operational group of the National Park investigated the tracks left by the predator and found out that after the attack the tiger left the park border through the pass towards the Bogbasu River.

According to Vladimir Andronov, director of Zapovedniy Priamurye, the reasons that prompted the tiger to attack a human are unknown. The animal did not inflict dangerous injuries on the man. It is possible that the tiger jumped "out of curiosity," but not out of hunger, Andronov concluded.

Travel agencies working within the range of the Amur tiger are recommended to be concerned about the safety of tourists, fence the territories of bases to protect visitors from possible contact or attack of wild animals.

Earlier, on October 29, a circus panther attacked a three-year-old child in Angarsk. During a photo shoot the animal pounced on the child, as a result of which the boy was taken to a medical institution with injuries.