At the II International Tiger Forum, which will be held on September 5, 2022 in Vladivostok, the Republic of Kazakhstan will present its booth and tell about the program for the restoration of the tiger population in the region.
12 years ago, St. Petersburg hosted the first International Forum on problems related to the protection of the tiger on Earth, during which the Global Tiger Recovery Program was adopted, providing for a doubling of their number in nature by 2022. It was at this Forum that the government of Kazakhstan announced its readiness to reintroduce the predator to Central Asia.
Seven years later, a reintroduction program was prepared, and as early as the following year, the Ile-Balkhash State Nature Reserve was created with an area of 415,000 hectares, covering part of the Ili River delta, floodplain, saxaul forests and wetlands on the southern coast of Lake Balkhash. From that moment on, the implementation of the first stage of the tiger program began - the preparation of the territory. In the coming years, Kazakhstan and Russia plan close cooperation in the implementation of the program. During the II International Tiger Forum, it is planned to sign a corresponding memorandum. Earlier, during the XVII Forum of Interregional Cooperation between Russia and Kazakhstan, which took place on September 30, 2021, President of Russia Vladimir Putin offered the President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Kemeluly Tokayev to provide advisory assistance in restoring the tiger population in Kazakhstan.
At the II International Tiger Forum, the Minister of Ecology, Geology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan will speak about the stages of the program implementation, the work done since the creation of the reserve and further plans regarding the arrival of the predator itself. The Kazakhstan booth will present an exposition of the territory of the Southern Balkhash region - the place of the future release of tigers. The layout, as well as video and photo presentations, will allow visitors to get acquainted in detail and expand their understanding of the future "home" of the tiger.
The Forum is organized by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation, the Amur Tiger Center, and the Roscongress Foundation.
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