Amur Tigers

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(07-04-2019, 03:09 PM)slicknick Wrote: Anyone know the latest numbers in the wild btw? Last one I found was 540, based on the WWF website

Maybe that is best estimation now. This link is to one report from the end of 2018 concerning Amur tigers and leopards. Interesting information and also making it clear, that problems do exist there despite many positive things.

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"According to the 2015 full-range Amur tiger count, about 523-540 Amur tigers are alive today in RFE, compared to 423-502 individuals in 2005. In 2018, Land of the Leopard National Park announced that the population of Amur leopards within its borders has increased to 84 adults and 19 cubs. This is a dramatic increase over the 57 leopards counted in the national park in 2015 and the first time in decades that the Amur leopard population has exceeded 100 animals. The upward trend in the Amur leopard and Amur tiger populations is very encouraging. 

But despite sustained conservation efforts over recent years and encouraging recent monitoring results, the big cats still remain at risk due to poaching, logging, forest fires, and prey depletion. Every year the wild populations of Amur tigers and Amur leopards officially lose up to ten individuals due to poaching and other reasons, including collisions with vehicles. According to official statistics published by government agencies and trusted sources, in 2018 the population of Amur tigers reportedly lost six individuals. Also, a huge number of skins, bones and derivatives belonging to about 45 Amur tigers that were killed in different years, were seized in 2018. Brief description of these cases can be found in Attachment I. "

Source: https://conservewildcats.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2019/02/PHXFinal-report-2018_Securing-a-Future-for-Amur-Leopards-and-Tigers-in-Russia.pdf Reply