When travellers decide to visit the vast lands of Russia, few expect to get a chance to see wild tigers.

But now, those exploring the eastern part of this mysterious country could get the opportunity to come face to face with one, after the government signed a decree to open a new national park.

The sanctuary, based in the Khabarovsk province, has been created to protect the endangered Amur tigers and is the third park to be opened in the area in the last 12 months.

Speaking to the ScienceDaily, Yury Darman, head of the WWF-Russia Amur branch, said that two thirds of the new national park is now occupied by the tigers.

"From now on, five to seven tigers out of 20 specimens living in the Nanai district will receive protected habitats," he explained, adding that the land would serve as an "ecological corridor which connects animals from the Anyui River basin with the rest of the population".

In June last year, the 200,000 acre Zov Tigra National Park was opened four thousand miles east of Moscow in a bid to protect the rare but beautiful Siberian tiger.

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