The press service of the Moscow Region Ministry of Ecology has announced that in 2025, biologists will conduct special zoological studies in the region to restore and ensure the sustainable reproduction of certain rare animal species. In particular, scientists will assess the status of populations of the brown bear, common adder, and fire-bellied toad.
Specialists will conduct field route studies, based on the results of which decisions will be made on the development of special measures to restore these species. They will use various technical means in their work, such as camera traps.
The brown bear, which is endangered in the Moscow Region, will be the focus of the biologists' attention. Over the past two decades, its population in the region has been around 10-15 individuals. Every year, scientists record isolated cases of finding traces of the activities of these animals.
Another species that is in a critical situation is the common adder. This snake has been recorded only in the Losiny Ostrov National Park over the past thirty years.
As part of a special study, biologists will also pay attention to the amphibian - the fire-bellied toad. It is listed in the Red Book of the Moscow Region under category 2 of rarity and is a vulnerable species. At the beginning of the last century, it was widespread in the region, although it was not found everywhere. In recent decades, the number of toads has decreased, and the species has disappeared from a number of its former habitats. There are isolated observations of this frog in Domodedovo, Stupino, Ozyory, Luhovitsy, and Klin.
