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06-26-2014, 08:53 AM( This post was last modified: 06-26-2014, 08:59 AM by peter )
Two more on Russia to finish with.
1 - This is Putin in Sichote-Alin. I know about presidents, public relations and everything connected, but he has been there more than once and he's one of the few who uses his position in this way. It certainly has an effect when a well-known man shows an interest in the tiger and conservation. The tiger, by the way, is a large tigress:
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2 - And now for something entirely different. This is a map from Heptner & Sludskij ('Mammals of the Sovjet-Union'). The book was published in the late seventies, but the map was made in the sixties of the last century when tigers were on their way back in Russia. It shows Amur tigers were seen in regions well west and north of Sichote-Alin.
The question is what to make of the statement that Amur tigers were in fact Caspian tigers pushing east, whereas reports of explorers writing about tigers in eastern parts of Siberia (500-600 years ago) seem to point in another direction (Amur tigers going north and west):