Siberian Tiger Project
Project Animal(s) : Siberian Tiger
Project Category : Mammals
Project Region : Asia
Project Type : Conservation
Project URL : https://russia.wcs.org/en-us/Projects/Siberian-Tiger-Project.aspx
Project is timebound? : No
About 500 Siberian or Amur tigers are left in the wild, with 95% of them in the Russian Far East. Within the tiger’s range in Russia, the largest protected area is the Sikhote-Alin Biosphere Reserve, a 400,000 ha (4000 km2) reserve that has been a stronghold for the Amur tiger since its creation in 1935, and which harbors over 30 tigers today. In 1992 WCS (initially as the Hornocker Wildlife Institute) in cooperation with the Sikhote-Alin Reserve began intensive studies of tiger ecology under the Siberian Tiger Project, today the world’s longest running radio-telemetry based tiger research and conservation effort.
Project Agency : WCS Russia
Project Agency Contact : https://russia.wcs.org/en-us/