Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-mkpzs Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-22T13:22:11.104Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Tigers and Leopards in Russia's Far East

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

David Prynn
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

Russian settlement of the Far East inevitably reduced numbers of Siberian tigers and leopards, whose magnificent skins were a major lure for the settlers. But in the 1880s tigers were numerous, and tracks often seen in the streets of Vladivostok; many were shot. Today there may be 200 or so, which is probably as many as at any time since 1914. Now fully protected, they appear to have adjusted to the timber mills and the secondary forest, and are often seen on roads and near gardens. Their main strongholds are two reserves, both likely to be enlarged. The leopard, however, is seriously endangered, and depends for survival on two reserves in the Ussuri region which are being combined to create one huge reserve 200 miles long.

Type
Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 15 , Issue 5 , December 1980 , pp. 496 - 503
Copyright
Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1980

References

1.Kuchler, A.W. 1948. A New Vegetation Map of Manchuria. Ecology 24.Google Scholar
2.Thiel, S. 1957. The Soviet Far East. Methuen, London.Google Scholar
3.Oriental Ceramic Society 1968. The Animal in Chinese Art. London.Google Scholar
4.Stroganov, S.U. 1962. Carnivorous Mammals of Siberia. Moscow.Google Scholar
5.Mazak, V. 1967. Notes on the Siberian long-haired tiger. Mammalia 31:4.Google Scholar
6.Ford, Barclay, 1915. The Gun at Home and Abroad: The Big Game of Asia and North America. London.Google Scholar
7.Zhirnov, L.V. 1972. Tiger Protection in the USSR. Moscow.Google Scholar
8.Ognev, S.I. 1935. Mammals of the USSR and Adjacent. Countries, Vol. 3. Moscow.Google Scholar
9.Sowerby, A.de, C. 1934. Game in the Maritime Province. The China Journal, 21:1.Google Scholar
10.Matyushkin, E.N., Zhyvotchenko, V.I. and Smirnov, E.N. 1978. Tigers in the past, future and present in the USSR. In: Some Problems of Wildlife Conservation in the USSR. Moscow.Google Scholar
11.Sysoev, V. 1960. Hunting in the Far Eastern Taiga. Khabarovsk.Google Scholar
12.Matyushkin, E.N. 1978. Peculiarities of the distribution and ecology of the Amur tiger, as a geographical form of the species which has adapted to extreme conditions of the environment. In: International Tiger Studbook Congress Report of the First International Symposium on the Management and Breeding of the Tiger, 23–42. Leipzig.Google Scholar
13.Bromley, G.F. et al. , 1978. Search and capture of prey of the Amur tiger. Peculiarities of the distribution and ecology of the Amur tiger, as a geographical form of the species which has adapted to extreme conditions of the environment, 13–23.Google Scholar
14.Pikunov, D.G. et al. 1978. Ecological aspects of the life of the tiger in winter in the Maritime Territory. Peculiarities of the distribution and ecology of the Amur tiger, as a geographical form of the species which has adapted to extreme conditions of the environment, 7–12.Google Scholar
15.Williamson, A. 1870. Journeys in North China, Manchuria and Eastern Mongolia with Some Account of Corea, Vol. 2. Smith, Elder, London.Google Scholar
16.Yudakov, A., and Nikolayev, I.G. 1973. Present state of Amur tiger population in the Primorye region. Zooligichesky Zhumal 52:6.Google Scholar
17.Baikov, N. 1939. Les Betes Sauvages de la Mandchourie. Paris.Google Scholar
18.Perry, R. 1964. The World of the Tiger. Cassell, London.Google Scholar
19.Bromley, G.F. 1977. The Plant and Animal World of the Ussuri Nature Preserve. Moscow.Google Scholar
20.Prishvin, M. 1936. Jen-Sheng, the Root of Life. New York.Google Scholar