Russia has managed to increase the number of Amur tigers and Far Eastern leopards
In Russia, the number of animals that require special measures to preserve their populations is steadily growing.
The Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation, Alexander Kozlov, stated this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, when answering a corresponding question.
“We call them priority species. Initially, there were 11 species: Far Eastern and Central Asian leopards, snow leopard, Amur tiger, bison, saiga, argali, gazelle, Przewalski's horse, polar bear and Siberian crane. In 2020, two more were added to the list: the Sea of Okhotsk populations of gray and bowhead whales. Road maps have been developed for 11 species based on adopted conservation strategies and restoration programs for priority species. We are still working on the remaining two,” Kozlov said.
He also reported on the results achieved.
“For example, the number of Amur tigers in the Far East is growing steadily. According to monitoring, its population in 2019 was about 580 individuals; this winter a census will take place, and we expect that there will be at least 600 tigers. A Far Eastern leopard reintroduction center is being created in the Lazovsky Nature Reserve in Primorye. This is generally a unique animal - at the beginning of the 40s there were no more than 100 individuals, but now there are about 110–XNUMX of them,” the minister noted.
“1378 individuals is the current number of bison population; this animal was practically destroyed in our country at the beginning of the last century. Breeding in nurseries, relocation and reintroduction made it possible to form a large, 800-individual, unified group of bison in the Bryansk, Kaluga, Oryol and Tula regions,” added the head of the Ministry of Natural Resources.
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