6 June 2022
From 5 to 8 June, the Ostankino TV
tower will be painted in tiger colours and will broadcast “There are more Amur
tigers now”. RTRBN TV towers in Voronezh, Kaluga, Kostroma, Sochi, Nizhny
Novgorod, Penza, Cherkessk, Nazran, Nizhnekamsk, Grozny, Rostov-on-Don, Samara,
Stavropol, Tver, Tula, Chelyabinsk, Kaliningrad, Saransk, Perm, and Yakutsk
will be lit in tiger colours. This is how RTRBN will support the campaign held
by the Amur Tiger Centre in the run-up to the International Tiger Forum.
Russia is home to the Amur tiger,
one of the rarest subspecies of the striped predator. Once their population
numbered several thousand, but by the end of 1940s no more than 50 animals
remained in the wild! The subsequent ban on hunting, the efforts of the state,
Soviet and Russian ecologists, made it possible to stabilize the population within
60 years. In 2005, scientists reported 450 predators.
In the 2000s, poaching and
deforestation caused the Amur tiger population to decline again. To save the
predator, the Russian Geographic Society established the Amur Tiger Centre in
2013 at the initiative of President Vladimir Putin. Thanks to the experts’
efforts, the tiger population began to grow slowly and the 2015 census showed
that it reached 523–540 animals.
In the winter of 2021–2022, the
Russian Ministry of Natural Resources and the governments of the tiger range
regions, with the support of the Amur Tiger Centre, conducted a new
comprehensive census of the Amur tiger.
“At present, the inventory
coordinators have processed the data received at their sites and now they coordinate
the so called ‘boundary’ tigers among themselves. These are animals that were
recorded by specialists at the junction of different areas. Soon this work will
be completed and then the verified number of Amur tigers in Russia will be
announced. It is already obvious that the number of Amur tigers has increased
and their habitat has expanded, – comments Sergey Aramilev, Director General of
the Amur Tiger Centre. – By the time the International Tiger Forum is held in
September, the data will have been processed using special software, and we
will have received the final figures. At the same time, I would like to
emphasize that the expert estimate gives an idea of the minimum number, while
the final one shows the full picture.”
The 2nd International Tiger Forum
organized by the Roscongress Foundation will open on 5 September 2022 in
Vladivostok on the opening day of the Eastern Economic Forum. The event is
expected to be attended by the President of the Russian Federation, leaders of
foreign states and governments, heads of international organizations, foreign
officials, heads of companies, representatives of the business, expert, and
media communities.
The Forum is expected to sum up the
results of tiger conservation activities in all countries of their habitat over
the last 12 years and to outline new goals and specific actions to ensure
comfortable coexistence of tigers and humans.
Photo by Svetlana Sutyrina
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The Carbon Unit Game: A New Environmental Monopoly?
The Roscongress Foundation prepared a report entitled ‘Carbon Neutrality: Saving the Planet or an Economic Weapon?’ on the prospects for managing greenhouse gas emissions to achieve the overall goals of combating global warming.
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Selection Underway for Third Installment of Far East State Management Personnel Training Programme
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07 March 2024
Moscow discussed promoting the potential of the Republic of Kalmykia for its development
A meeting between Anton Kobyakov, Adviser to the President of the Russian Federation, and Batu Khasikov, Head of the Republic of Kalmykia, was held in Moscow to discuss the implementation of a number of key projects and programmes designed to create a long-term basis for the structural development of the economy of the Republic of Kalmykia and the Caspian region.
