Global Times: Tiger quintuplets and a rescued male’s life in the wild reveal conservation gains in NE China’s national park

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In November 2025, an infrared camera in Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park recorded a rare sight: a wild Siberian tigress leading five cubs through the forest in Hunchun, Northeast China's Jilin Province.

Almost a year later, the young tigers were beginning to go their separate ways. Three had started becoming independent in August, while two remained with their mother, Chen Xiaocai, head of the park administration's general operations division, told the Global Times. The family's development marks a new chapter in China's first documented case of wild tiger quintuplets.

"All beings flourish when they live in harmony and receive nourishment from nature," Chinese President Xi Jinping said in an address to a key United Nations (UN) conference on biodiversity protection via video link in October 2021.

Spanning about 14,100 square kilometers across Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces, the park marks the fifth anniversary of its establishment this year. Its wild Siberian tiger population has grown from 27 in 2017, when the national park pilot began, to 72, while the number of wild Amur leopards has risen from 42 to 115, according to the National Forestry and Grassland Administration.

Another closely watched tiger, Wandashan No. 1, has settled in the park after being rescued and released in 2021. Monitoring shows that two females' activity areas overlap extensively with his territory, suggesting that the once-wandering male may have found a mate.