The book was unlike anything I’d seen before. It consists of twelve stories or essays, and each one weaves a narrative around some item that has been lost to the world: the extinct Caspian tiger, an ...

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A new study, published in the journal Biological Conservation, lays out the plan to reintroduce the tigers using a subspecies, the Siberian tiger, which is genetically similar to the Caspian tiger.

Beirut has released a new song titled ‘Caspian Tiger’. The track was originally written as part of the soundtrack Zach Condon composed for Swedish circus company Kompani Giraff’s touring ...

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.

“Caspian Tiger” was one of the first songs I wrote for the new album, with images in mind of the poor animals caged or fighting in Roman colosseums. They had been taken from the Asian steppes ...

However, when you buy something through our retail links, Condé Nast may earn an affiliate commission. Beirut’s Zach Condon, photo by Lina Gaißer Beirut has shared a new song, “Caspian Tiger,” ...