The male and female tigers, will be housed in a spacious semi-natural enclosure of three hectares within the Ile-Balkhash ...

Tigers now occupy less than 7% of the range they used to, and in Kazakhstan, systematic hunting and a reduction of tiger prey saw the big cats declared extinct in the Caspian region in the 1950s.

The Athletic's Cody Stavenhagen threw a name out recently on the 'Tiger Territory' poscast in Nick Pivetta. "A name that I believe the Tigers just might like a ton, none other than Nick Pivetta ...