More than 100 cubs have been born in the world's largest Siberian Tiger breeding base in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province so far this year, Xinhua News Agency reported on Monday.

 

Since its establishment in 1986, the Hengdaohezi feline animal breeding base, also the world's largest Siberian Tiger breeding base, has bred over 800 such tigers from only 8 original Siberian Tigers.

 

This year, the breeding base took DNA detection as a scientific means in selecting seeded tigers, effectively avoiding blind breeding.

 

The Siberian Tiger, or Northeast Tiger, has been listed an endangered species. It is mainly spread in northeast China and Russia's Far East. It is reported that there are only about 400 wild Siberian Tigers left around the world, with less than 20 in China.

 

(CRI.cn September 5, 2007)