TIGERS FOREVER 2006-2011 | ENSURING TIGERS ... - Panthera

China
The Russian Far East is a unique
landscape for tigers and for Tigers
Heilongjiang
Forever. One of the longest-running
tiger conservation sites to date, directed
by Dr. Dale Miquelle from the WCS,
showed that the Amur, or Siberian,
tiger population appeared to be stable
between 1995 and 2005. However,
since then poaching of tigers and their
Jilin
Vladivostok
prey has increased dramatically, and North Korea
with the reduction in enforcement
funding from the government, tigers
and their prey are decreasing. Poaching
levels have now reached a point where reproduction by tigers is
no longer able to compensate for the losses. And core protection
is needed urgently. Tigers Forever activities will include
the design and implementation of tailor-made MIST systems
for two tiger source sites - Kedrovaya Pad Nature Reserve
and Leopard Wildlife Refuge (these two adjacent areas are
Khabarovsk
Russia
Primorskiy kray
growing tigers forver
russia
managed as one protected area by a single
authority), and the Lazovski Nature Reserve.
Activities will begin with an increase
in patrol quality and intensity to result in a
substantial reduction of poaching pressures
in these two protected areas. An agreement
will be made with the protected area
management staff on designing and implementing
a more comprehensive tiger and
ungulate monitoring
system
for these two
areas.
top & above: John Goodrich / WCS
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