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On the eve of its 5-year anniversary, the Bikin National Park summed up the results of yet another in a row monitoring of the Amur tiger
On the eve of its 5-year anniversary, the Bikin National Park summed up the results of yet another in a row monitoring of the Amur tiger
05 november 2020
The field works were conducted from October 2019 till July 2020 in a monitoring plot encompassing one fifth part of the whole Park’s area in the middle and upper Bikin. Back in 2015 during the tiger census on its entire home range, the maximal density of tigers was registered right here.
This monitoring period was not easy for the Park’s employees Vladimir Popov and his friend. They had to cover on foot 130 kilometers along the Bikin and other rivers to remove 37 camera traps. A lot of time they spent to process the received information.
Altogether, the camera traps have registered 21 Amur tigers in the Park. Among them 8 adult females, 8 adult males, and 4 cubs. Sex of one of the tigers was not managed to define. In general, according to the experts’ evaluation, in the Bikin National Park there are around 40 tigers.
Amur tiger monitoring is being conducted since 2017 with the support of the Amur tiger Center.