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Russian Conservationist Optimistic About Tiger Repopulation

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It's a Cinderella story, or in Russian, a Zolushka story. A young female tiger name Zolushka has been rehabilitated and released back into the wild, after she was found alone, starving and frostbitten in 2012.

She is in the Far East region of Russia, which is formally tiger territory, and it looks like she may have found her mate.

Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson gets details from Vicki Croke, of WBUR's The Wild Life blog.

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This segment aired on January 27, 2015.

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