ON THE EDGE OF EXTINCTION - A - THE TIGER (Panthera tigris)

[Olga.bohai]

(11-08-2018, 02:10 PM)Shadow Wrote: "At present time, the actual problem in Amur region (Russia) is the population of brown bear. Forest fires have direct impact upon the conditions of this species’ habitat. Fires destroy their food supply and impair protective and breeding conditions. Brown bear is forced to migrate in search of food and sufficient habitat. "

That is from this document, which was quite interesting and it is very new. It would be nice if you would even briefly check it and tell what do you think?

http://www.sizenken.biodic.go.jp/nichiro/Abstracts.pdf

This article is interesting, everything there is like it was. I also know two of the authors personally.
Fires is a great problem. I think it is on the first place between all problems about preserving wildlife, second - poachers. Sometimes they (fire and poachers) work together. For example poachers want to get a lot of salmon on the river during spawning when it is prohibited. They make fires at another places to attract rangers' attention. So as a result taiga is on fire,  all rangers and firemen tries to to extinguish the fire (it takes from 1 day to 2 months ), meanwhile poachers draw tones of salmon caviar and get away with it. Sometimes logging companies make fires. Sometimes for agriculture purposes. And finally everybody suffers because of it. Unfortunately the reserves don't have enough rangers, helicopters and equipment to fight with the fires quickly. 
The second huge problem is Chinese poachers. This is from my post in Instagram:

" Shocking news from China! ‼️⠀
During more than 100 years Chinese poachers have been killing our tigers, leopards and bears for their traditional medicine (but the real medical benefit hasn’t been confirmed by the scientists till now). ⠀
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Than in 2017 China launched the Northern Tiger and Leopard National Park on a huge territory. It borders with our Russian Leopard Land National Park. They cooperate to preserve the last 80-100 Amur leopards and about 50 Siberian tigers. ⠀
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Every year our boarder guards arrest dozens of Chinese citizens with smuggling of taiga animals and plants. For example in January 2018 one poachers’ group was arrested on the Russian-Chinese border with 850 (!!!) bears’ paws, tigers’ fur and bones. And this is only one solved crime. Just imagine the scope of poaching! ⠀
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And now it’s realized that Chinese government has just legalized the use of endangered tiger and rhino products for “medical” purposes after 25-years ban! ⠀
What is it? Chinese hypocrisy? Who wants to save one of 2 billions Chinese with the help of one Siberian tiger? Anyone?⠀
We’re infuriated! Who can help with this situation? WWF? WCS? UN? ⠀
Stop to devastate our taiga! ⠀" Reply