By Ekaterina Igorievna Nikolaeva, Wildlife Data Specialist, ANO WCS Every spring, at the end of the camera trapping season, we return to the forest to retrieve our cameras. For us,...
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This Valentine's Day, we spotlight an extraordinary story from the Russian Far East: the journey of two Amur tigers, Boris and Svetlaya. Their remarkable reunion, following Boris’s 120-mile trek, offers...
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Abstract: Snares have become a widespread hunting technique, with their indiscriminate nature jeopardizing terrestrial large carnivores. The lack of reliable data on snare distribution hampers an accurate evaluation of the...
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Indigenous Primorye people share a historic bond with tigers evident in material culture and folklore. Carvings from II-I millennium B.C. in Khabarovsk depict this enduring connection, especially among Udegei, Orochis,...
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The Sikhote-Alin mountain range houses three protected areas, with the Sikhote-Alin Biosphere Reserve being the largest, covering 4% of Amur tiger habitat. The region has limited infrastructure and a sparse...
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In a remarkable effort to restore the population of Amur leopards, a ground-breaking Amur leopard reintroduction program has been initiated. Three of these magnificent creatures have been relocated from the...
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WildCats Conservation Alliance are delighted to announce the first recipient of the WildCats Professional Development Award as a legacy of the WildCats 2022 Year of the Tiger campaign. Anna Klevtcova...
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This year, for the first time in nearly two decades, an adult tiger was observed with four cubs in southwest Primorski Kray! Here Aleksandr Rybin, field crew leader for WCS’s...
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For nearly twenty years, WCS Russia has sought to institutionalise rigorous methods of population monitoring in the Russian Far East. In their half-yearly interim report, the team based at Land...
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WCS in Russia (ANO WCS) want to secure the future for Amur leopards and tigers in Southwest Primorye and neighbouring lands of Jilin Province in China. One way that they...
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We identified six objectives within the scope of this grant to achieve our goal of developing a yearly monitoring program for the entire Amur leopard population using a rigorous survey...
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