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NORTHERN TIGER PROJECT
January – November 2013
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ECOLOGICAL EDUCATION ACTIVITIES
Anyuisky National Park Department on Ecological Education
Over the first half year over ...... Took part in the activities on environmental education in
Nanaisky District. Among the main events were:
- a Week of the Nanai people' s culture
- a Day of Environmental Knowledge
- working out a game for the district schools "Saving forests from fires"
- cleaning up of the local rivers and lakes
- "The Far Eastern taiga" exhibition compiled of the best kids' works
- planting Korean pine seedlings
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In August two weeks long expeditions was held in the Park’s territory for 20 kids. The visitors
center and ethno village were actively used by the expedition participants.
TIGER PARADE IN ANYISKY NATIONAL PARK
Over 120 kids and grownups have marched the street of Troitskoye village, the center of Nanai
District of Khabarovsky Province – this is how the World Environment Day was celebrated in
Anyuisky National Park.
The Park’s staff, teachers and kids were among those who celebrated the holiday. Some kids
groups have invented special costumes, composed rhymed cadences. They carried banners
showing animals, birds and appeals to save northern tigers together.
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AMUR TIGER MONITORING
The monitoring was conducted on the model plot called "Tiger house” located in Anyuisky
National Park and outside . Besides, the Park's specialists registered tigers tracks during the
winter route census.
Over two stages of the field work (December 20-23, 2012, and February 13-17, 2013) in the
model plot 10 tigers were registered (compared to 2 tigers in 2012): among them 4 males, 1
female with a cub, 4 tiger of undefined sex. Such significant growth is explained by a mass
concentration of wild boar due to a rich harvest of the main forage.
According to the monitoring data received in the Park and the adjacent territories 17 tigers were
registered over two stages of the field work (December 14-25, 2012, and February 14-20, 2013).
Among them 5 males, 3 females with one cub each, 2 females without cubs, 4 tigers of undefined
sex.
The Amur tiger is being researched with the help of camera traps. The first tiger was captured in
the Park on March 22, 2013.
In late May the Park' s Department on Science summed up the results: in total 21 camera traps
were working on four model plots. It was defined that the cameras have registered a grown male
and a female that received special passports:http://wwf.ru/resources/news/article/eng/11359
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Passport Individual identification code – TG1
Sex: Male
Tracks dimensions: front right paw Track width Track length Palmar corn
(heel) width
Palmar corn
(heel) length
13.0 cm 10.5 cm 11.0 cm 7.5 cm
Body identification zones
Right body side:
Left body side: Forehead:
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Miscellaneous:
Unfortunately, the catastrophic flood in the Amur this summer and fall hindered the Park’ s
administration from completing tiger monitoring activities.
Not only wild ungulates have suffered from the flood. On September 17, a dead adult tiger (aged
6 years) was found on the left bank of the Amur River. Its death was caused by drowning.
In December 2013 the first stage of the planned tiger monitoring will take place in the Park and
the adjacent territories. The second stage will be completed in spring 2014 allowing the Park’s
administration to get data on tiger number over three years of the project implementation.
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Auto- road connecting Khabarovsk and the village of Troitskoye
ANTI POACHING ACTIVITIES
The area of the “Northern Tiger” project is protected from poaching by three organizations:
Anyuisky National Park, Hunting Department of Khabarovsky Province and Khabarovsky
Province State Directorate for Wildlife Protection and Protected Areas.
Anyuisky Park Department of Protection (Stepan Kirillin is the Department's chief) is in charge
of controlling the roads, feeding fields for ungulates and watching in the check points. This
activities allow protecting the Park' territory from poachers. In total, 175 protocols were issued
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in the Park. 10 protocols out of them were on illegal hunt. 6 fire arms were confiscated and
delivered to the Police. 7 cases were brought to court.
In 2013 (01 January- 15 November) , specialists of the Hunting Department of Khabarovsky
Province (Director Alexander Ermolin) and Khabarovsky Province State Directorate for
Wildlife Protection and Protected Areas (Director Yury Kolpak) revealed and suppressed 94
violations of hunting regulations in Khoso Nature Park and adjacent areas. 101 patrolling raids
were conducted, 11 fire arms were confiscated. .
On 3 - 5 October 2013, on the territory of «Orlinoye» state hunting estate, WWF Russia jointly
with the Wildlife and Hunting Management Department of Primorsky province, together with
veterinarians of Primorsky State Agricultural Academy, conducted a training seminar for staff of
“conflict” groups of Hunting Departments of Primorsky and Khabarovsky provinces on how to
use the equipment for animal immobilization. Participants of the workshop had not an easy task:
to ensure the transportation of two Himalayan bears from one place to another, situated at a
considerable distance. Moreover, to provide veterinary care for the Himalayan bear which was
injured after a fight with another bear.
WAR AGAINST POACHERS
On March 4, 2013 two snow mobiles were stopped by Khabarovsky Province State Directorate
for Wildlife Protection and Protected Areas in Nanaisky District. The snow mobiles with no
registration plates were driven by three men with rifles. When checking the attached sledge three
illegally hunted bears and one roe deer were revealed.
The rifles and the animals ' meat were confiscated and the cases were brought to court.
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Pictures presented by Khabarovsky Province Hunting Department
On August 201, Hunting Department inspectors stopped a motor boat on the Ulika River with
poachers, confiscated fire arms and several sacks with a red deer meat.
Seminar for the staff of Hunting Departments specialized groups on conflict resolution
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NEW EQUIPMENT FOR RANGERS.
Tents, GPS navigators, boats “Rotan”, solar accumulator stations, and spare parts for off-roaders
were purchased
PROJECT’S INTERNATIONAL OUTREACH
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In May 2013, a group of experts of WWF Sweden and Northern Ark Fund visited the Park to get
acquainted with the project's results and to discuss its perspectives for the second stage to be run
in 2014-2017.
In late September 2013, two Park’s specialists, deputy Director for Science and Wildlife
Management Andrey Subbotin, and senior ranger Anton Pushkaryov, paid a visit to Finland and
Sweden to learn the experience of the hunting estates on supplementary feeding of ungulates and
ecotourism development.
They also visited the Nordens Ark Zoo, one of the project’s partners, and discussed the future of
the project and meet the staff of the Scientific Department.
A group of experts from WWF Sweden and Nordens Ark are coming to the Park in March 2014
to evaluate the results of the project over three years.
The report prepared by Viktor Nikiforov
with support of Pavel Fomenko, Andrei Subbotin, Sergei Aramiliev, Aleksandr Samarin, Marina
Ridel, Yulia Fomenko, Yuri Kolpak
25/11/2013