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Camera traps in Bikin National Park registered 26 Amur tigers

Camera traps in Bikin National Park registered 26 Amur tigers
02 july 2018
Bikin National Park has summed up the Amur tiger camera trap monitoring results: camera traps registered 26 rare striped cats! The monitoring in Bikin National Park is carried out with the support of WWF Russia and the Amur Tiger Center.
Bikin National Park has finished the collection
and the analysis of the data received by camera traps set in the period of
November 2017 – February 2018. The monitoring work was carried out by the staff
of science department and by local hunters, working in the national park, on
the area of 2000 square kilometers. WWF Russia Amur branch purchased and handed
over to the park 50 camera traps in January 2017. And 30 camera traps were
provided by the Amur Tiger Center for protection and monitoring.
Bikin National Park is one of the key habitat of the Amur tiger preserving 10% of this subspecies world population. Annual estimates of tiger numbers in the national park with camera traps is the main part of this rare predator monitoring in the southern Far East.
The Amur tiger monitoring in Bikin National Park is carried out with the support of WWF Russia and the Amur Tiger Center.
Cover photo: Bikin National Park / WWF Russia / the Amur Tiger Center
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