How to save the Amur tiger Bashny.Net

A wholesale reduction in the number of animal species on the planet is a serious emotion, but the fate of some particularly disturbing. One such animal is the most beautiful and majestic predator - the tiger. I suggest you visit the National Park, Call of the Tiger to see the forage base, camera traps and traces of wild tigers. Contrary to my assumptions, poaching - are not the only threat of extinction of the Amur tiger. Actually, some poaching is of two kinds - VIP-poaching (by officials) and social (the hands of ordinary hunters). With the first type, according to the director of the Primorsky branch of ANO "Siberian Tiger" Sergei Aramileva managed to "cope" rather quickly. On the Tiger Summit in 2010, Putin has stated publicly that he loves tigers and worried about their fate. With these words, the flow of orders for tiger skins declined by 90 percent. With regard to social poaching, the defeat did not happen anywhere else in the world. However, it is worth noting that now the hunt for the Amur tiger is not so profitable (and less secure), as it was in the 90s. In those days, for a predator could buy two jeeps or build cottage ...
So, even if we assume that tomorrow in Primorye there will be no poacher, it does not guarantee a quiet life tigers. Tiger - part of the animal world, where all depend on each other. Firstly, a predator habitat has become smaller due to the growth of settlements. The problem, of course, trying to solve the setting protected areas and national parks, but still - before the tiger was more space for living. Second, the tiger lives depend on its so-called "food supply" - animals that predators hunt. Here and opens a vast field for consequential, indirect conservation work subspecies.
Tiger eating wild boar and hoofed animals. If those in the forest will not be - the tiger will go to settlements that will not please either residents or tiger. The number of boars depends on the harvest of acorns. If the year was meager - environmentalists establish forage base, helping the wild boars to survive a difficult period. If the year, by contrast, came good and the number of pigs has increased dramatically - there is a risk of spread of swine fever. In this case it is necessary to vaccinate the animals to prevent the epidemic. Separate story ungulates ...
The range of issues that can affect the life of Tiger wide and falls under the area of responsibility of a number of ministries, departments and various social institutions. Often they can not see the whole problem can not promptly or agree with each other. To do this was to create an autonomous non-profit organization "Center for the Amur tiger", which aims to unite all the structures and quickly solve certain problems. Quickly provide satellite communications inspectors find and deliver vaccines for animals or even lobby for amendments toughening responsibility for hunting "Red Book" of animals - these and many other questions are decided Aramilev Sergey and his team.
Now I propose to get into a helicopter and go to the Call of the Tiger National Park and the surrounding area.

We left early in the morning, when the whole of Vladivostok was covered with fog:

I remembered Grishkovets "How I ate a dog." Future writer Vladivostok also met the morning mist:

Still, a bird's-eye even drab winter landscape looks incredibly:

Please note that the hills are covered with snow on one side only:

It is clearly seen where the southern slope, and where the North:

After a while, smoke began to disperse:

Flew over the national park Tiger Call:

River Milogradovka turquoise ribbon stands out against the gray rocks:

The river abounds with beautiful rapids and waterfalls, including the highest in Primorye - Podnebesny waterfall (cascade of three waterfalls, height 19, 25 and 15 meters) and a waterfall Sting Snake:

Then, down the slopes, home to deer and sika deer. Browse animals from a helicopter very difficult. They become visible only when they begin to move:

Try to find the animals here, to determine how many of them in the photo and what kind of animals:

Frightened by the sound of blades beneath us ran wild boars. I think I understood the essence of the expression "to throw wild boar»:

But those same animal feeders. In this case - feed for pigs:

Hoofed animals need salt and set for them a special "licks" - feeding salts and minerals:

In hunting often bring children to "tour". Including them special observation towers built near the dressings:

Half an hour later we were lucky - found the tiger trail. The tiger is an interesting walk. If you look at the traces, as if they are doubled. Tiger enters the hind leg and puts it in front of the front. Moreover, traces left of the right paw, and on the right from the left:

Where notice tiger reserve staff often set camera traps. They respond to the movement. With these pictures, you can trace the fate of specific tigers in the reserve:

Sergey assembled stick with traps and looks "catch" on a netbook:

Unfortunately, in the last period (less than a month) "trapped" did not get none of the tiger. But you can see old photos:

One of the traps set by the tree, which marks the tiger, indicating its territory. At a level higher than a man can be seen traces of claws, and a dark spot on the tree - it's his urine. Tiger relies on hind legs and becomes a tree upside down before. The higher is the spot, the greater the tiger. If another tiger wander into that territory, it will immediately understand whether he should contact the local tiger or better to go further: