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[peter]

(04-06-2017, 11:44 AM)Wolverine Wrote:

(03-29-2017, 06:23 AM)peter Wrote: The new National Park is not that far from the alleged former Imperial Hunting Reserve of the old rulers. It was a large and well-stocked reserve, that included the upper part of the Sungari River. The reserve was well protected for a number of centuries. This, according to some, was the reason the animals were larger than average. 

Peter, where is possible to find more information about the former Imperial Hunting Reserve you mentioned?

As I know for many centuries the rulers of Qing dynasty being themselves a Manchurians didn't allow to Han Chinese to settle and colonise Manchuria in order to protect motherland of their ancestors from "Chinefication", not for any "hunting" purposes. That restriction basically saved the Amur tiger.

As to info on the former Imperial Hunting Reserve. There are a few posts in the tiger extinction thread. Unfortunately, I don't know on what page. 

I read about the Manchurians and the Han Chinese before. After World War Two, the Han Chinese moved to provinces south of the Jang-Tse in order to cultivate wild provinces like Hubei and Hunan. As there also was a government-sponsored program to severely limit the number of wild animals in that period (the Great Leap Forward), it resulted in a slaughter. As this left tigers without food, they responded by hunting domesticated animals. And humans. This resulted in a war between humans and tigers.

If interested in what happened between 1950-1970, read 'Tiger Chase' of A. McDermott. I'll do a number of posts on the war between humans and tigers in Hunan in the tiger extinction thread soon. Reply