{"id":702925,"date":"2026-07-21T06:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T06:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/702925\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T06:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T06:45:09","slug":"hamerton-zoo-welcomes-critically-endangered-malayan-tiger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/702925\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamerton Zoo welcomes critically endangered Malayan tiger"},"content":{"rendered":"

A zoo said it hoped its newest tiger arrival would help protect an endangered species from extinction.<\/p>\n

Bulan, a male Malayan tiger, has been moved to Hamerton Zoo Park, near Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire, from a zoo in the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n

Zookeeper Charlotte Vaughan described the species as “critically endangered”.<\/p>\n

“It’s a massive, massive milestone for us,” she said.<\/p>\n

Fewer than 150 Malayan tigers remain in the wild, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Vaughan said Bulan was very curious and quite nosy and that he was keen to take snacks from his keepers within a few hours of arriving.<\/p>\n

He has already been introduced to the zoo’s female Malayan tiger Sahaja through a fence.<\/p>\n

“Sahaja is still a bit wary of him\u2026 but it’s been really positive so far,” said Vaughan.<\/p>\n

She said the zoo believed the pair were the only two Malayan tigers of breeding age in Europe.<\/p>\n

The zoo said any decisions about the big cats living together and any breeding programmes would be guided by the tigers’ welfare.<\/p>\n

The team have one other tiger in their collection, which is a white Bengal. <\/p>\n

The attraction was previously home to a male Malayan tiger called Cicip which mauled a zookeeper to death in 2017<\/a>.<\/p>\n

An inquest found Rosa King’s death was accidental after she failed to notice Cicip’s enclosure was not secure.<\/p>\n

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