WWF andRussia's Far East

TOGETHER25 YEARS

WWF provided a kick-off support to anti-poaching brigades of Lazovsky and Sikhote-Alinsky Nature Reserves located within the Amur tiger home range, to Special Inspection «Tigr» and rapid response team of the Primorsky Wildlife Management Department working in the Bikin River basin.

At the intitiative and the support of WWF a Federal targeted program «Coservation of the Amur Tiger» was adopted in Russia.

� The fi rst «The Amur Tiger Conservation Strategy in Russia» was elaborated and approved due to WWF’s initiative and support. It summarized half a century experience on protection and research on the Amur tiger in Russia. The conservation measures of this rare cat were defi ned.

� The fi rst International Conference on the Amur Leopard conservation was organized. It was attended by experts from Russia, South Korea, the United Kingdom and the USA.

� WWF and the Vladivostok branch of the Russian Customs Academy developed training courses «The work of customs authorities on revealing and seizing of wildlife contraband».

� With support of WWF the Bolonsky Nature Reserve was established in Khabarovsky province with the area of 103 600 hectares.

� WWF became one of the organizers of the annual Amur tiger monitoring on 16 model areas in Khabarovsky and Primorsky provinces.

� The «Bikin» rapid response team of the Primorsky Wildlife Management Department to patrol the game resources in the Bikin River basin.

� Forest Program has been launched in the offi ce in Vladivostok. The anti-poaching «Kedr» group has been created to combat illegal logging.

� With support of WWF the Norsky Nature Reserve with the area of 211 168 hectares was established in Amurskaya province.

The Far Eastern Operative Customs and WWF has signed a cooperation agreement on rare and endangered wildlife species conservation and control of wildlife resources traffi cking across the Russian border.

� With the help of WWF, a training and methodological center for customs support for wildlife conservation has been established in the Vladivostok branch of the Russian Customs Academy, to control the movement of natural resources across the border more effectively.

� WWF jointly with partner organizations has organized the fi rst Tiger Day in Vladivostok.

� At the initiative and with the fi nancial support of the Foundation, the «Leopard» group has been set up and begun operating under Primorsky province Hunting Management, an operational unit to combat poaching in the Far Eastern leopards’ habitats.

� WWF has developed a «National Strategy for working with the population to prevent forest fi res».

� The Forest Certifi cation Center has been established with support of WWF.

� WWF and «Medved» hunting estate has launched an experimental supplementary feeding for wild ungulates – the main prey for the Amur tiger. Later on, this experience was disseminated in the entire southern Far East.

� With support of WWF and other organizations the Hunchun Reserve was established in China for protection of the Amur tiger and leopard habitats and recovery of population of these rare cats.

� WWF together with other organizations have developed «The Action Plan on Amur Leopard Conservation in the Southern Far East». The Amur leopard camera trap monitoring has been launched.

� A Russia-wide WWF program to combat illegal logging has begun. The infringements discovered by WWF experts forced the authorities of the Federal Forestry Agency to take measures to combat forest poaching. 14 forest anti-poaching groups were formed in 22 most troubled forest farms of Primorsky province.

� «Aldikon» Wetland Reserve with the area of 275000 hectares was established in Amurskaya province to preserve waterfowl and semiaquatic birds including the Oriental stork.

� «Sobol» anti-poaching brigade, the analogue to successfully operating in Primorsky province «Kedr» group, was formed in Evreiskaya province by the Nature Resources and Environment Protection Department with support of WWF.

� WWF has organized the Leopard Day that has become the traditional holiday annually celebrated in the south-western Primorye.

� WWF and TRAFFIC has initiated the project to use sniffer dogs to detect wildlife objects in the customs check post of Vladivostok Airport.

� Forest inventory according to FSC Standards has been held in 1,4 million hectares of «Terneyles» group of timber companies.

� WWF has become one of the sponsors and the participants of tiger census in its entire home range. National tiger census methodology has been tested and approved.

� Campaign «Far Eastern leopard. Save each of the survivors» has been launched jointly with the coalition of NGOs and educational departments of the southwestern Primorye.

� Jointly with the Primorsky Administration WWF has introduced mobilization plans and measures to increase the ungulates numbers into the practice of hunting and wildlife resource management. The work on rising awareness among the game resource users has been launched.

� Visitor center «Land of the Leopard» has been opened in Barabash village in Primorye.

� With the assistance of WWF in the wildlife refuges of Amurskaya province the moratorium on logging has been introduced.

� With the assistance of WWF three national parks were established: Zov Tigra and Udege Legend in Primorsky province and Anyuisky in Khabarovsky province, with total area of 600 122 hectares.

WWF is among the founders of a traditional Tiger Day

Release of Uporny, the tiger, into the wild after rehabilitation, 2015

A tiger-r-r is our everytning!

Gingseng, a root of life, should be protected

Женьшень — корень жизни — нуждается в охране

Mongolian oak acorns are a delicacy for wild boars

� WWF has become one of the sponsors and participants of the Amur leopard winter survey.

A fully-valid Sniffer Dogs Service started its operation at the Far Eastern Operating Customs. Support to the dog handlers training and sniffer dogs training to become profi cient at detecting wildlife products contraband has become one of WWF’s priorities.

� In cooperation with other organizations WWF formed a reserve fund to support hunting clubs to prevent ungulates mass death in harsh winters.

� With WWF’s support an Agreements of Cooperation on the Amur tiger and Amur leopard conservation was signed for the fi rst time between the Jiling Province Forestry Department (China) and the Russian governmental agencies.

� In Primorye the fi rst criminal case on illegal cuts in the Tayozhny Wildlife Refuge was initiated against loggers destroying the Amur tiger habitats.

� With mass public support WWF managed to include the Korean Pine into the List of tree species banned for logging.

� WWF became one of organizers and participants of the International Forum in St. Petersburg on tiger conservation while in Vladivostok assisted to organize and hold International Youth Summit on tiger-related issues.

� The Russian Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment approved the Strategy of the Amur Tiger Conservation in Russia. WWF’s experts actively participated in the development of the document.

� In Khabarovsky Province, WWF Russia and WWF Sweden in cooperation with the Swedish Nordens Arks Zoo started a unique project on conservation of the northernmost population of the Amur tiger in Russia.

� WWF initiated and organized the ever fi rst Korean Pine Day having started to plant one million seedlings in the Land of the Leopard.

� Heads of Russia and Germany signed a Memorandum on running a project «Protection of Virgin Forests of the Bikin River to Mitigate Climate Change Effects»

� With WWF’s support, Wildlife Management Departments of Primorsky and Khabarovsky Provinces formed the groups to mitigate confl icts between humans and large predators.

� With WWF’s assistance, the Land of the Leopard National Park was declared in Primorye on 261 686 hectares. WWF provided assistance to cease poaching and elaborate ungulates management plans. It also made the Barabash visit centre over to the Park’s administration.

� Legislative amendments to harsh punishment for harvesting and circulation of the most valuable wild animals were accepted. WWF tried hard to make it possible since early 2000.

� WWF became one of the sponsors and participants of the winter Amur leopard census on its entire home range.

� The Russian Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment approved the Strategy on the Amur Leopard Conservation in Russia. To make it feasible, the leading specialists and experts including the WWF’s ones

elaborated an Action Plan and the Amur Reintroduction Program.� An Agreement on Cooperation between WWF and FSK, a large energy

provider, came into action to protect rare birds from power lines-caused mortality.

� The Shantarsky Islands National Park was established in Khabarovsky Province on 515 500 hectares.

� WWF participated in a video monitoring of the Amur leopard in the Land of the Leopard national Park. 16 short fi lms were shot opening the veil on the leopards’ life in the wild.

� With public support WWF managed to include the Mongolian Oak and Manchurian Ash into the CITES Annex III (the Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species).

� The Russian president signed the List of Orders on the Amur tiger and Amur leopard conservation.

� With WWF’s assistance the Bikin National Park was established in Primorye on 1.16 million hectares.

� The Russian Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the German Federal Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety signed a joint declaration on the results of a project «Protection of Virgin Forests of the Bikin River to Mitigate Climate Change Effects». The document consolidated the success of the project that WWF run in the Bikin River basin in partnership with the local indigenous people.

In the Amur River basin a network of near-border protected areas was formed: a Memorandum on Cooperation between 16 Chinese and 12 Russian protected areas was signed in Khabarovsk.

� The Landscapes of Dauriya, the Russian-Mongolian protected area, received the status of the UNESCO World Heritage Site.

� «KEDR», the system for remote sensing of forest cover change, developed with the support of WWF, put into operation in Primorsky and Khabarovsky Provinces to reveal and cease illegal logging operations.

� For the fi rst time over the last 13 years, the census of the Oriental stork was conducted on its entire breeding ground in Russia and China with the support of WWF. In the Amur River basin over 1000 nesting pairs of Oriental stork were registered.

� In Russia and China, 50 Oriental stork chicks were fi tted with remote GPS transmitters. After twenty years, the program to study the rare bird migration was resumed.

� With the support of WWF, the Centre for Remote Sensing and Civic Control and ecologists from the River without Borders International Coalition WWF conduct satellite monitoring of the rivers contaminated with placer gold mining.

� The Bikin National Park received the status of the UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Korean pine is called a «bread-giving» tree of the Ussury taiga

Всемирный фонд дикой природы (WWF), Амурский филиал

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