Tiger killer given strong punishment During the course of the
trial investigators were able to prove that the killing was
intentional, not self-defence as the man purported. Forensic
evidence demonstrated that the man was a long distance from the
tiger when the initial shots were fired and that the animal
tried to flee and hide from the hunter. The man pursued the
wounded tiger, which made a final feeble attempt to defend
itself before the fatal shot was fired at close range. The
hunter sustained a scratch on his face and a broken finger. If
not weakened, such a blow would have caused much more severe
injuries. WWF staff-members are greatly saddened by the death of
the tiger, with which they were familiar with from years of
conservation work in the area. “We have met this male when doing
annual winter tiger monitoring. It was never regarded as a
conflict tiger,” said Pavel Fomenko, biodiversity conservation
program coordinator at WWF-Russia’s Amur branch. “Examination of
its dead body proved that the tiger wa