Siberian tigers making a comeback in China

Visitors on a tourist bus catch a glimpse of Siberian tigers at a park in Harbin, in northeastern China’s Heilongjiang province. Harbin, across the border from Siberia, Russia, is not for the faint of heart: It’s rarely warmer than 5 degrees.   (Joe McDonald / Associated Press)

Cattle rancher Liu Xiangqing’s livestock have come under tiger attack in Jintang, China. One of the largest of Liu’s herd, a 1,300-pound bull, lost his tail to a tiger but stayed alive by fighting back.   (Tommy Yang / Los Angeles Times)

Li Zhixing, left, who has worked for decades on tiger protection, gives beekeeping supplies to former hunter Ma Xijun as part of an effort to encourage an alternative livelihood to trapping. The traps often snare endangered Siberian tigers and their prey.   (Barbara Demick / Los Angeles Times)

A worker with the World Wildlife Fund carries an injured sika deer that will serve as food for Siberian tigers in Lanjia forest near Wangqing county in China’s Jilin province.   (Wang Zhao / AFP/Getty Images)

An injured sika deer is used as food for Siberian tigers in Lanjia forest, in China’s Jilin province. Jilin is home to a wildlife preserve containing 108,700 acres of spruce, pine and larch forest, the favorite habitat of the tiger.   (Wang Zhao / AFP/Getty Images)