Knowsley Safari has staged its first Tiger Parade to raise awareness of the plight facing the endangered Amur tiger.
A band of 500 animal lovers dressed as tigers at the park in Merseyside to reflect that there are only 500 of the big cats left living wild in eastern Russia under threat from poaching and deforestation.
The parade passed through the safari’s tiger trail, opened 12 months ago, which forms a 10,000 square metre natural habitat that is home to two Amur tigers, sisters Sinda and Bira.
Sinda and Bira joined the safari as part of a European breeding programme in 2010.
“There are only 500 left in the wild which is why we invited 500 ‘tigers’ here to try and raise more awareness of the poaching and deforestation problems facing our cats today.”
