Source: Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation
On the territory of the Ubsunur Basin Nature Reserve in Tyva, chicks of the migrating houbara bustard were released into the wild. They were brought from the Sheikh Khalifa Bustard Breeding Center in Kazakhstan. The release of chicks into the wild is one of the stages of the implementation of an experimental program for the reintroduction of the houbara bustard into the northernmost borders of the global range. This was reported by the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources.
“Asian bustards belong to the East Kazakhstan genetic line and are capable of traveling long distances. Available scientific studies have shown that genetically they are closest to the population inhabiting the Ubsunur Basin in Russia in the Republic of Tyva and Mongolia,” the department’s website says.
As the ministry noted, the birds released into the wild underwent special “pre-flight” training to provide them with optimal physiological adaptation in their natural environment.
“To do this, bustards are placed in special spacious enclosures in advance, contact with people is limited, they are fed mainly with live food and limited in water,” the Ministry of Natural Resources said.
“Ubsunur Basin” pays great attention to increasing the numbers, protecting and restoring the populations of Asian and Great Bustards. Particular emphasis is placed on scientific research, nature conservation and biodiversity of the transboundary ecosystem of the reserve in cooperation with the Mongolian side.
A program to study and preserve the population of the Asian houbara bustard (Chlamydotis maqueenii) in Tyva began in February 2019. Then, in Abu Dhabi, an agreement was signed on cooperation in the field of study and conservation of the Asian houbara bustard in Tyva between the International Fund for the Conservation of the Bustard (IFOD), the All-Russian Research Institute of Environmental Protection of the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources (VNII Ecology) and the Ubsunur Basin Nature Reserve. .
As part of this agreement, in 2019 and 2021, international expeditions took place on the basis of the reserve with the participation of specialists from the Moscow Forestry Fund and the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Ecology to assess the current state of the population of this species in the Republic of Tyva.
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