Amur tigers will be counted in the Far East at the beginning of the new year - their number may reach 500

The Amur tiger census will take place in January-February 2022. Such large-scale studies in the entire range of the species are carried out every few years in order to assess the current state of the population and determine the measures necessary for more effective conservation of the rare predator, the Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia reports.

“Thanks to active nature conservation work, the population of the Amur tiger in Russia has grown by 15% over the past 10 years and has a tendency to further increase. According to the latest complete census of the Amur tiger, carried out in the winter of 2014-2015, 523 - 540 individuals lived in the Far East, of which 420 - 433 are adult tigers. At the same time, according to the data of the previous 2005 census, the total number of the Amur tiger was estimated at 450 individuals,” the statement on the website of the Ministry of Natural Resources said.

It is expected that by 2022 the set targets for increasing the number of predators to 500 adults will be achieved.

The range of the tiger in Russia covers four regions and fourteen specially protected natural areas of federal significance. These are the Khingansky Nature Reserve in the Amur Region, the national parks Bikin, Udegeskaya Legend, Land of the Leopard, Call of the Tiger, and the Sikhote-Alinsky, Kedrovaya Pad, Ussuriisky, Lazovsky National Parks in the Primorsky Territory, the national park "Anyuisky" and the reserves "Bolshekhekhtsirsky", "Khekhtsirsky", "Botchinsky" in the Khabarovsk Territory, the reserve "Bastak" in the Jewish Autonomous Region.

In 2022, the II International Tiger Conservation Forum will be held at the Eastern Economic Forum, where the results of the implementation of the Global Tiger Restoration Program will be summed up and new goals and objectives for the conservation of the species on a global scale will be identified.