Hier, le Comité intergouvernemental pour la protection du patrimoine mondial culturel et naturel a officiellement annoncé l'inclusion de la vallée de la rivière Bikin dans le site du patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO "Sikhote-Alin".
Le territoire des parties supérieure et moyenne du bassin de la rivière Bikin présente des caractéristiques paysagères et biogéographiques uniques. Ces forêts sont en fait des analogues complets des forêts feuillues préglaciaires d'Eurasie, et de tels écosystèmes dans le reste du territoire ont été presque complètement transformés ou ont complètement disparu. Ce vaste territoire est le seul grand bassin où il n'y a jamais eu d'exploitation forestière. Et c'est seulement ici que l'on peut se faire une idée concrète de ce à quoi ressemblait la Taïga de l'Oussuri jusqu'au milieu du 19ème siècle. Au moins une quarantaine de tigres de l'Amour vivent dans cette forêt alluviale*. Voir le détail, la cartographie et les illustrations sur WWF Russie, ce jour.
https://wwf.ru/resources/news/amur/natsionalnyy-park-bikin-vklyuchen-v-spisok-vsemirnogo-naslediya-yunesko-/
НАЦИОНАЛЬНЫЙ ПАРК «БИКИН» ВКЛЮЧЕН В СПИСОК ВСЕМИРНОГО НАСЛЕДИЯ ЮНЕСКО
Voir aussi "Tiger Amur Centre", ce jour.
http://amur-tiger.ru/ru/press_center/news/1071/
* Estimation minimale, réalisée l'an dernier pour l'ensemble du Parc National à partir de relevés photographiques effectués début 2017 sur un secteur de 2000 km2, et qui avaient illustré la présence de 5 mâles et 5 femelles. Mais les relevés photographiques extrêmement nombreux effectués entre novembre 2017 et février 2018 sur le même secteur ont mis en évidence la présence de 26 individus, et il semble que ceci constitue (cette fois - ci) la quasi totalité de la population de cette zone à la fin février 2018. Elle est représentée par 10 mâles, ainsi que 10 femelles dont deux étaient accompagnées de leurs petits (une portée de 4, une portée de 2), et dont quatre, qui plus est, étaient enceintes. Or, le parc National de la Bikin est plus de 5 fois plus vaste que le secteur étudié. WWF Russie, ce jour.
http://amur-tiger.ru/ru/press_center/news/1070/
26 АМУРСКИХ ТИГРОВ ЗАФИКСИРОВАЛИ ФОТОЛОВУШКИ В НП «БИКИН»
Voir aussi : Amur Tiger Programme, ce jour.
http://programmes.putin.kremlin.ru/en/tiger/news/25771
On 2 July 2018, the Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (UNESCO World Heritage Committee) officially announced that the Bikin River Valley has been added to the UNESCO World Heritage List as part of a serial nomination of Central Sikhote-Alin, a network of specially protected areas.
Back in 2010, the woodlands of the Bikin River Valley natural site were included on the tentative list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. But, according to the UNESCO World Heritage Committee rules, Russia had to show interest in preserving the territory, primarily by granting it the status of a nationally protected area. In 2015, at President Vladimir Putin’s instruction, Bikin National Park was established in the basin of the upper and middle reaches of the Bikin River.
“The obvious fact has been recognised. Bikin to Russia is what the Amazon River is to South America. Granting the status proved that the national park meets all international requirements and that the rights of tigers and indigenous peoples are not violated there. Undoubtedly, the status will attract tourists from all over the world,” said Sergei Aramilev, general director of the Amur Tiger Centre.
The serial nomination of Central Sikhote-Alin was prepared by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in order to provide the necessary protection to the Amur tiger. The cedar and broadleaf forest area along the Bikin River’s middle and upper reaches is the world’s only preserved cohesive area of once widespread Ussuri taiga. The area is important because it preserves the natural state of habitats of animals whose wellbeing affects the future of the Bikin group of Udege, indigenous people of the Bikin River basin. It is noted also that this vast territory is the only large basin where tree felling has not occurred.
Since 2004, Central Sikhote-Alin, a UNESCO World Heritage site, has also included the Sikhote-Alin Biosphere Reserve and the Goraly Wildlife Sanctuary.
http://programmes.putin.kremlin.ru/en/tiger/news/25770
The recent photo monitoring session at Bikin National Park showed that there are 26 Amur tigers inhabiting the protected natural area. The images were retrieved for the period from November 2017 to February 2018.
“The first automated trail cameras were installed in the park in early 2017 and captured 10 tigers: five females and five males. However, a large-scale photo monitoring session was held for the first time in the winter 2017-2018,” said national park Director Alexei Kudryavtsev.
Senior research fellow at Bikin Vladimir Popov added that there are 10 males, 10 females (two of them have cubs and four are pregnant) and there are six cubs in two litters. “What is interesting is that one of the females has four cubs, which is rare. This shows that the tiger population in the park is doing well. We were especially happy to get images of a tigress and her two cubs eating a boar which was killed earlier by a male tiger. Camera traps brought other interesting photos too, for instance, with three yellow-throated martens and a tiger that was resting in front of one of the cameras,” Popov said.
According to experts, Bikin National Park is an important Amur tiger habitat, with 10 percent of its world population there.
