MUSIQUE SACREE
"La Musique savante est aussi une expérience du sacré, en rapport avec les mystères majeurs"
Richard Millet
LES SOURCES DE L'AVENIR
Dans "Mes chasses dans la taïga de Mandchourie", Nicolas Baïkov évoque les "nuits des fauves", pendant lesquelles les tigres mâles s'affrontent pour la possession des femelles, ce qui tétanise les autres animaux, humains inclus. L'auteur a vécu l'une de ses nuits singulières en compagnie d'un chanteur moscovite qui, émerveillé par les exploits d'un quatuor de grands félins, leur répondit longuement, sur son propre registre. Son voeu d'écrire un opéra sur son aventure ne put voir le jour : il mourut en 1914 sur le front de Galicie. (Mes chasses dans la taïga de Mandchourie. Nicolas Baïkov. Traduit du russe par Boris Aratov. Eds Payot 1938).
Les collines du Valdaï sont le coeur battant de la Russie européenne depuis la nuit des temps, celle de l'hydromel comme celle de la vodka. C'est en leur sein qu'à la fois Dniepr et Volga prennent leur source. (Les régions naturelles de l'URSS. Leo Berg. Traduction par G. Welter. Eds Payot 1941). Du 6ème au 12ème siècle, y évoluaient tigres et léopards, et leurs lacs regorgeaient de poissons. Leur système marécageux empêcha, au 13ème siècle, les Mongols d'accéder à Novgorod, juste au Nord du Lac Ilmen (La Russie. des origines à la naissance de Pierre le grand. C. Stählin. Eds Payot 1946).
Le plateau du Qinghai - Xizang, dans la steppe du Nord du Tibet, est appelé "le troisième pôle de la planète" en raison de ses réserves de glace. Il
est le chateau d'eau de l'Asie, et sa région la plus sauvage est la patrie des léopards des neiges et des molosses du Tibet, chiens de berger les plus vigoureux et les plus combatifs au Monde.
C'est un endroit désolé, loin de toute civilisation, qui fait penser à l'Univers des origines, au début des temps. (Flamme. Par Gerileqimuge Grue - Noire, Philippe Picquier 2011, traduit du
chinois par Patricia Batto).
Valdaï et Qinghaï sont les mamelles de la Russie à venir, où l'aigle bicéphale, dont chacune des trois couronnes portera un symbole culturel différent et complémentaire, unira la croix orthodoxe et le croissant islamique par la lancéole d'un libérateur des rivières aurorales aux griffes et crocs acérés (voir page blog des 14 juillet et 26 octobre).
Celà mérite surement un opéra.
Au Bolchoï.
Un concert qui stupéfiera le Monde.
LA MANNE
LA COLLECTE DES CÔNES DE PINS DE COREE PEUT HARMONISER DURABLEMENT LES RELATIONS ENTRE HOMMES ET GRANDS PREDATEURS SAUVAGES (source: WWF Russia, ce jour)
In nut-fishing zones of Primorye, taken with the support of WWF to rent in non-wood use - a big harvest.
But for the development of the integrated development of forest resources should be a significant change in the law
Cedar-broadleaf forests of the Far East are home to the Amur tiger, the place of the traditional lifestyle of indigenous peoples, the basis
for environmental taiga settlements and the unique facility to save the planet's climate. Since 2007, supported by the World
Wildlife Fund (WWF), more than 600 thousand hectares of valuable forests of Primorye - Bikin, East, Mill and Koksharovskoy nut-fishing zones (IPF) - have been leased for up to 49 years for
harvesting food forest resources and collection of medicinal plants. So in the best virgin pine forests appeared tenants, who
are vitally interested in preserving
This year, for the first time after taking a nut-fishing zones in the non-wood forest lease in, come in Primorye this crop year, and began collecting pine nut industry.
But the main problem that exists today in the legislation - is prohibitively large fee for the resource, which makes it cost prohibitive in fact. Thus, in the Mill nut-fishing zone for the right price is only collecting nuts is 13 rubles. In addition, the leases require the lessee to engage in the protection of the territory, to acquire fire fighting equipment, machinery, lay mineralized bands, take care of them, which means added costs for fuel, spare parts, patch egerskoy service.
"From my point of view, the right to pay the state once for the right to lease contract, won in fair
competition with other bidders in the auction. And further, if the crop - a forest lodge a declaration in accordance
with the allowed volume of industrial logging and pay for the resource is at flat rates established by the state - 1.5 rubles per kilo of nuts in the Primorye Territory.
Under these conditions, we can talk about the possibility of developing a serious forest management on food forest resources ", -
believes Oleg Yushkin, chairman of the social organization of hunters and anglers
"While most of the costs claimed the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), because the society itself hunters and fishermen with no significant development of this sphere of activity, such costs are not explicitly draw. To achieve such development, and as a result and the main goal - integrated development of nut-fishing zones as an alternative to logging in valuable woods - obviously requires direct access of suppliers to the major tenants, processors and consumers of these products. Thanks to the agreements already reached with the largest consumer of pine nuts in the U.S., responsible tenants can already this season in addition to stockpiling market prices for the nut to get added value that covers the cost of maintaining such a lease, - says the coordinator of the Integrated Forest Management Amur branch of WWF-Russia's Evgeny Lepeshkin. - - A significant change in the law is another major challenge that must be addressed to us along with the public and responsible business in the area of food forest resources to make this sector viable forest management is really suiting all parties involved. "
In November 2010, the eve of the International Tiger Summit, there was the main thing -
Korean cedar was listed as a species, harvesting of which is prohibited. But this is not the first nor the last step in
the conservation of cedar. In July this year in the course of negotiations
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel signed a memorandum of understanding on the promotion of the project
"In August, the World Wildlife Fund - WWF Germany and WWF Russia - launched a new climate project is
already in all the coniferous-deciduous forests of the Far East of Russia, carried out by the Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) and the Development Bank
Germany (KFW) in the framework of international climate initiative. That is,
the preservation of coniferous and deciduous forests became a matter of state, even inter-state importance, and was endorsed at the highest level - says Eugene
Lepeshkin. - Now, when the WWF partners have leased cedar-broadleaf forest area of more than 600 000 hectares and
there
Support at the state level of the integrated development of forest resources of food and medicinal plants, WWF considers necessary condition for the preservation of cedar-broadleaf forests, tiger, and social welfare of the inhabitants of taiga regions of the Far East.
RED BOOK
SORTIE DU E-RED BOOK DU PRIMORYE (Province maritime, extrême orient russe, un des derniers "Pleistocenes vivants".
A consulter sans modération (source: Phoenix Fund, il y a deux jours)
http://www.phoenix.vl.ru/index.php?pg=1319514264
Goral de l'Amour, belette de montagne (solongo), truite de Sakhaline (Parahuchon) de près de 3m pour 160kgs,
poisson - chat (soldatov) de 4m...
LE COEUR DE L'ARMEE RUSSE
CUIRASSE MYTHOLOGIQUE POUR TEMPS INCERTAINS
Il y a quelques mois, Alexandre Mekhanik publiait dans le magazine russe Expert un intéressant article sur la nécessité pour son pays de reconstruire un mythe fondateur pour le présent et l'avenir de la nation (voir les extraits publiés par le Courrier International 1075 du 9 Juin 2011).
Quelques semaines plus tard, j'avais proposé, sur ce sujet, des pistes précises, axées sur des éléments historiques circonstanciés (voir "Europe : le tigre ou la mort" du 14 Juillet, précisions ultérieures les 11 et 26 septembre). Les aspects principaux de cette thématique avaient été résumées dans une interview donnée à Pascal Esseric, Rédacteur en Chef de la Revue "Elements pour une Civilisation Européenne", et parue le 14 Octobre dans le N° 141 (Octobre - Décembre 2011), sous le titre "pour l'Europe, c'est le tigre ou la mort".
Aujourd'hui, l'urgente nécessité de la refondation d'un mythe national russe est plus pressante que jamais. En effet, le simple réalisme conduit à constater que les mouvements tectoniques actuels des ensembles géopolitiques placent l'immense espace central eurasien sous la menace directe de l'étau sino - américain.
Le rouleau compresseur Chinois dans la partie orientale du territoire est désormais dépassé par le tropisme américain, "parasite de l'économie mondiale" selon les mots de Vladimir Poutine, de solutionner la crise totalement hors de contrôle (et provoquée par les Etats - unis eux mêmes) par la seule méthode possible et réellement efficace en pareil cas : la guerre.
Alors qu'une Europe occidentale aboulique en tous domaines cherche désormais à se vendre au plus fortuné pour sauver, veut elle croire, son confort d'animal domestique et consumériste, l'Espoir viendra (comme toujours) du Courage, de la Détermination, de la Lucidité et de l'Imagination (cette "Intelligence en érection" selon Victor Hugo), seuls à même d'enclencher une Résistance effective porteuse de victoire.
Comme l'a montré Anne Galezowsky, les mythologies primordiales slavo - baltes ont été sérieusement impressionnées (dans le sens photographique du terme) par celles des Scythes, qui glorifient l'Animal le plus sauvage, et notamment le grand félin (voir mon blog du 14 juillet déjà cité plus haut). De même, la culture finno - ougrienne de l'ours et du tigre continue à maintenir des ponts entre finnois (finlandais) et Khantys de l'Ob (Sibérie occidentale, Altaï - Sayan), dont les mythes principaux sont parents jusque dans le détail.
Ajoutons que le tigre fut symboliquement au coeur du "Grand Jeu", compétition géopolitique colossale entre Russie et Angleterre impériale au 19ème siècle, dont la Guerre froide du siècle dernier ne fut qu'une pâle réplique. Le "lion" britannique "chatiait" le tigre musulman - qu'il fut indien (Tippu Sultan en 1799, et plus encore les Cipayes révoltés en 1857) ou d'Asie centrale, notamment ouzbek - perçu dans tous les cas comme allié des russes... Orthodoxes et soufis étant, de ce point de vue, dans la même sphère culturelle aujourd'hui, ils constituent les deux sources principales auxquelles s'abreuvera l'Aigle bicéphale à la triple couronne...
D'autre part (et à l'occasion de la sortie en France de la traduction du livre de John Vaillant évoquant le drame des relations hommes - tigres dans la Russie des années 90, voir ma page blog "Pamiat : la mémoire" du 9 Septembre 2010) rappelons que, comme le dirent les indiens des plaines d'Amérique du Nord à la fin du 19ème siècle, "ce qui arrive aux loups arrive aux hommes". Et c'est aussi ce qu'exprimèrent les kazakhs à propos des tigres, quand les uns et les autres subissaient l'anéantissement "agricole" des années 30. De même, la réification du tigre de Sibérie en "pièces détachées" et son qualificatif de "Toyota" (parce qu'on pouvait s'en acheter une en en tuant un), coîncide à une surmortalité d'un million de personnes en Russie pendant cette période de "Katastroïka".
A contrario, prendre soin du tigre implique un net mieux pour l'homme.
C'est d'ailleurs aussi le cas pour la forêt qui, là où elle est effectivement épargnée, permet aux riverains de tirer parfois des revenus des centaines de fois supérieurs à ceux où celle - ci est mise en coupe réglée.
Le "dragon vert " est un dispositif potentiellement majeur de l'armature mythologique de la Russie en devenir. Dans le cadre de son élaboration, un symbole national important serait un nouveau nom pour un animal appelé à revivre au Kazakstan, en Iran, puis en Turquie, mais en premier lieu en Russie centrale et occidentale, le "tigre de Sibérie": Panthera tigris eurosibericus, Panthera tigris russicus...
EXTENSION DU SANCTUAIRE VERS L'OUEST
SOURCE: WWF Russia, ce jour
October 18th Governor of the Transbaikal region RF Geniatulin signed a decree on the creation of two landscape reserves:
Eastern Transbaikalia - a kind of crossroads of the world. The region is situated at the junction of three major river basins of Eurasia (the Baikal-Yenisei, the Lena and Amur) and east to the junction of three countries (Russia, Mongolia and China), includes several natural zones (taiga, forest steppe and steppe) and, perhaps, Most importantly - is located on the border of the major biogeographic selected. Here there is a narrowing of the transcontinental migration routes of birds, so in the avifauna of the region - many globally rare and vulnerable species (including six species of cranes). To save some of them (such as Daurian crane, goose-Sukhonos, bustard, dzeren, manul, Kodar bighorn sheep, etc.), Trans-Baikal Territory is crucial.
However, despite the global importance of natural complexes, the area of protected areas in the Trans-Baikal Territory is less than 4%. Outside the protection of threatened and active economic development are still the most valuable wetlands, rivers, the sources of the Amur (Argun, Onon, Shilka), which have no analogues steppe lands with black birch forests Dauria and many others.
It is therefore particularly important that new protected areas created directly in rivers Argun and Onon. "Relic oak" - the first protected area in the valley of the Argun. Taken under the protection of relict grove of Mongolian oak, located on the extreme western boundary of the area, isolated from the main area of growth of oak. Researchers determine its age about 3,000 years. In addition, in the sanctuary includes meadows with a large number of Manchu origin, black birch forest steppe park and tall meadow steppes with peony and molochnotsvetkovogo yasentsa mohnatoplodnogo. All these communities are included in the Green Book of Siberia.
"Semenov" - the first marketplace of high status in the PA area Baleyskom Trans-Baikal region. Its creation in some way compensate for the excessive human impact on ecosystems Baleyskogo area associated with the intensive development of mining operations. The composition of the reserve include undisturbed and disturbed little taiga, steppe and forest areas Priononya, wetlands, rivers Onon, Unda, Kalanguy. The territory is of particular importance as a stopping place for migratory birds during migration, rich in mineral springs, popular with the public, as well as historical monuments Burhotuyskoy culture.
A distinctive feature of the two new nature reserves in the Transbaikal is that they are created at the initiative of local people, implemented with the support of WWF-Russia Amur branch. In July 2011 approved the scheme of development and location of protected areas in the Trans-Baikal Region for the period until 2021. According to the document area of the regional protected areas in the region should grow up to 5-6% (more than 2-fold compared to the present).
AN AMERICAN SLAUGHTER
HIER, 49 ANIMAUX SAUVAGES SONT MORTS SOUS LES BALLES DE LA POLICE A ZANESVILLE, DANS L'OHIO. ILS AVAIENT ETE LIBERES PAR LE PROPRIETAIRE DU RANCH QUI LES HEBERGEAIT, AVANT LE SUICIDE DE CELUI-CI. 18 tigres et 17 lions sont parmi les victimes, ainsi que 3 pumas, 2 grizzlis et 6 ours noirs.Trois léopards et un grizzly ont survécu au massacre. La police a expliqué qu'elle manquait de produit hypodermique et qu'il fallait protéger les riverains.
Source : Associated Press, ce jour.
L'achat libre de félins sur Internet est légal dans 8 états aux USA (dont l'Ohio). La question est maintenant de savoir si la législation concernant les animaux sauvages présents chez des particuliers va évoluer, et si oui dans quel sens. Ce fait divers isolé, qui a ébranlé l'opinion publique américaine, ne doit en effet pas faire oublier le trafic gigantesque qui touche les immenses populations de félins concernées (à tout le moins plusieurs dizaines de milliers, le nombre de 2884 avancé officiellement le mois dernier par la Feline Conservation Federation paraissant pour le moins douteux) comme l'a établi un rapport en 2009, et les safaris effectués sur le territoire, où des centaines de grands félins trouvent la mort chaque année.
Plus que jamais, les Etats unis sont à la croisée des chemins entre la continuation du "gâchis de marchandise"à une échelle industrielle et un réensemencement des espaces sauvages par des populations ayant réappris une existence autonome (voir sur le site la page "Avenir des tigres captifs").
Zanesville, Ohio: Sheriff's deputies shot nearly 50 wild animals - including 18 rare Bengal tigers and 17 lions - in a big-game hunt across the state's countryside on
Wednesday after the owner of an exotic-animal park threw their cages open and committed suicide in what may have been one last act of spite against his neighbors and police.
As homeowners nervously hid indoors, officers armed with high-powered rifles and shoot-to-kill orders fanned out through fields and woods to hunt down 56 animals that had been turned loose from
the Muskingum County Animal Farm by owner Terry Thompson before he shot himself to death on Tuesday.
After an all-night hunt that extended into Wednesday afternoon, 48 animals were killed. Six others - three leopards, a grizzly bear and two monkeys - were captured and taken to the Columbus Zoo.
A wolf was later found dead, leaving a monkey as the only animal still on the loose.
Those destroyed included six black bears, two grizzlies, a wolf, a baboon and three mountain lions. Dead animals were being buried on Thompson's farm, officials said.
"It's like Noah's Ark wrecking right here in Zanesville, Ohio," lamented Jack Hanna, TV personality and former director of the Columbus Zoo.
Hanna defended the sheriff's decision to kill the animals but said the deaths of the Bengal tigers were especially tragic. There are only about 1,400 of the endangered cats left in the world, he
said.
"When I heard 18, I was still in disbelief," he said. "The most magnificent creature in the entire world, the tiger is."
As the hunt dragged on outside of Zanesville, population 25,000, schools closed in the mostly rural area of farms and widely spaced homes 55 miles east of Columbus. Parents were warned to keep
children and pets indoors. And flashing signs along highways told motorists, "Caution exotic animals" and "Stay in vehicle."
Officers were ordered to kill the animals instead of trying to bring them down with tranquilizers for fear that those hit with darts would escape in the darkness before they dropped and would
later regain consciousness.
"These animals were on the move, they were showing aggressive behavior," Sheriff Matt Lutz said. "Once the nightfall hit, our biggest concern was having these animals roaming."
The sheriff would not speculate why Thompson killed himself and why he left open the cages and fences at his 73-acre preserve, dooming the animals he seemed to love so much.
Thompson, 62, had had repeated run-ins with the law and his neighbors. Lutz said that the sheriff's office had received numerous complaints since 2004 about animals escaping onto neighbors'
property. The sheriff's office also said that Thompson had been charged over the years with animal cruelty, animal neglect and allowing animals to roam.
He had gotten out of federal prison just last month after serving a year for possessing unregistered guns.
John Ellenberger, a neighbor, speculated that Thompson freed the animals to get back at neighbors and police. "Nobody much cared for him," Ellenberger said.
Thompson had rescued some of the animals at his preserve and purchased many others, said Columbus Zoo spokeswoman Patty Peters.
It was not immediately clear how Thompson managed to support the preserve and for what purpose it was operated, since it was not open to the public. But Thompson had appeared on the "Rachael Ray
Show" in 2008 as an animal handler for a zoologist guest, said show spokeswoman Lauren Nowell.
The sheriff's office started getting calls on Tuesday evening that wild animals were loose just west of Zanesville. Deputies went to the animal preserve and found Thompson dead and all the cages
open. Several aggressive animals were near his body and had to be shot, the sheriff said.
Sheriff's Deputy Jonathan Merry was among the first to respond on Tuesday. He said he shot a number of animals, including a gray wolf and a black bear. He said the bear charged him and he fired
his pistol, killing it with one shot when it was about 7 feet away.
"All these animals have the ability to take a human out in the length of a second," said Merry, who called himself an animal lover but said he knew he was protecting the community.
"What a tragedy," said Barb Wolfe, a veterinarian with The Wilds, a nearby zoo-sponsored wild animal preserve. She said she managed to hit a tiger with a tranquilizer dart, but the animal charged
toward her and then turned and began to flee before the drug could take effect, and deputies shot the big cat.
At an afternoon news conference, the sheriff said that the danger had passed and that people could move around freely again, but that the monkey would probably be shot because it was believed to
be carrying a herpes disease.
"It was like a war zone with all the shooting and so forth with the animals," said Sam Kopchak, who was outside on Tuesday afternoon when he saw Thompson's horses acting up. Kopchak said he
turned and saw a male lion lying down on the other side of a fence.
"The fence is not going to be a fence that's going to hold an African lion," Kopchak said.
Danielle Berkheimer said she was nervous as she drove home on Tuesday night and afraid to let her two dogs out in the yard.
"When it's 300-pound cats, that's scary," she said. She said it had been odd on Tuesday night to see no one out around town, and the signs warning drivers to stay in their cars were
"surreal."
Some townspeople were saddened by the deaths. At a nearby Moose Lodge, Bill Weiser said: "It's breaking my heart, them shooting those animals."
Ohio has some of the nation's weakest restrictions on exotic pets and among the highest number of injuries and deaths caused by them. At least nine people have been injured since 2005 and one
person was killed, according to Born Free USA, an animal advocacy group.
On Wednesday, the Humane Society of the United States criticized Gov. John Kasich for allowing a statewide ban on the buying and selling of exotic pets to expire in April. The organization urged
the state to immediately issue emergency restrictions.
"How many incidents must we catalog before the state takes action to crack down on private ownership of dangerous exotic animals?" Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO, said in a statement.
Kasich said on Wednesday during a meeting of Dix Communications editors: "Clearly, we need tougher laws. We haven't had them in this state. Nobody's dealt with this, and we will. And we'll deal
with it in a comprehensive way."
SIBERIAN TERRITORY MUST BE STRONGLY PROTECTED
Importante réunion, la semaine dernière, pour lutter plus efficacement contre le trafic massif à destination de la Chine, de la Mongolie et du Kazakstan (nombreux léopards des neiges vendus en pièces détachées). Source: WWF Russia, ce jour.
For the Siberian Federal District - a region with rich flora and fauna - the problem of smuggling of animals and plants are extremely relevant. Some actors in the region bordering on China, Mongolia and Kazakhstan, the customs regime of the last of which was due to the weakening of the Customs Union of Russia with Belarus and Kazakhstan.
The specificity of this contraband requires high professionalism of the Federal Customs Service - the only law enforcement agency in
Russia, has capabilities to combat smuggling of rare and endangered species of wild animals and plants and their derivatives. Customs officers should have expertise in biology, juridiction, and operational skills for
effective detection and identification of similar illegal objects. Seminar for customs officials, organized by WWF in
partnership with
Teaching at a seminar held 15 of the staff of the Siberian Customs Administration of the Siberian and East Siberian operational customs, eight customs of the Siberian federal district, including employees of the department of customs and export control restrictions, customs clearance and customs control, special customs procedures, product range and trade restrictions and departments to combat the smuggling of particularly hazardous. How to detect contraband items such non-standard, where the perpetrators organize caches as camouflage and fight off the smell, protecting them from finding his dog - a search engine as fake documents - these and other questions were answered such legendary specialists like Sergei Lyapustin, Head of Training Customs Resource Center to ensure conservation of Vladivostok branch of RCA.
The lecturers are the best experts: Svetlana Senotrusova (Russian Customs Academy (RCA)) - the author of many research and teaching materials for customs officials, Alexei Vaisman, head of TRAFFIC Russia, Mikhail Paltsyn, project coordinator of the Altai-Sayan Branch of WWF, Elvira Nikolenko, an expert on rare species of birds of prey and Ilya Smelyansky, an expert on the biodiversity of the steppes of Russia (Sibecocenter).
Despite the fact that according to official data of the Siberian Customs detentions smuggling of animals and their derivatives, as well as
their legal cases are moving across the border in Siberia - the unit, the study by WWF and Sibecocenter argue that within the region is a large-scale illegal mining species, focused
exclusively the foreign market. According to Elvira Nikolenko, head of
Contraband for various reasons do not reveal, and at checkpoints, movement of animals and their derivatives are actively involved in circumvention of customs control points - in the neighboring regions. In particular it helps to open in 2010, the border with Kazakhstan and weak control over the vast territory of the Russian border with Mongolia and China.
NEW STEP FOR EUROPEAN LEOPARDS
Début d'internationalisation du projet de restauration des populations de léopards du Caucase. Et contact renoué officiellement avec l'Iran (source : WWF Russia, ce jour)
Last week, experts from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA) visited Sochi National Park and Caucasian State Reserve to learn more about the program for the reintroduction of leopard in the Caucasus. Recovery program is implemented leopard Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation with the participation of Sochi National Park, the Caucasus Nature Reserve, WWF Russia, Institute of Nature, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Severtsov Academy of Sciences, Moscow Zoo.
The delegation included representatives from IUCN experts on feline Urs Breytenmozer and Herve Lesieur, experts EAZA Alexander Plum (curator Kolognerskogo Zoo) and Martin Raffel (Munster Zoo curator), employees of Ministry of Russia, Sochi National Park, the Caucasus Biosphere Reserve and WWF-Russia.
With the support of the Sochi National Park from the experts an opportunity to inspect the place of the alleged helicopter issue leopards into the wild. During the flyby the Caucasus Nature Reserve visitors can see a huge territory, uninhabited by people, and even see a few groups of ungulates: tours, wild goats, deer and bison. What he saw convinced experts that the site chosen for the reintroduction of optimal and food supply for a leopard.
Director of WWF-Russia Igor Chestin foreign experts presented the program of reintroduction of leopard in the Caucasus . The discussion focused on its progress and plans for the next, after which the delegates visited the Centre for breeding and rehabilitation of leopards. This is a unique place where the working conditions for breeding of leopards, and for their continuing adaptation to life in the wild. Currently there are four individual leopard: two males, and General Alous brought from Turkmenia, and two females, Cherie and Mino, which was brought from Iran. Director, Center for Umar Semenov showed how animals are kept, and outlined plans to build steam.
To date, the completion of breeding stock of the center is a priority. This will allow faster and get a pair to form a first kittens.
At the end of his visit to Moscow, the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources held a meeting with the Director of International Cooperation Department, NR Inamova, the Institute of Ecology and Evolution , Severtsov Academy of Sciences and a representative of Embassy of Islamic Republic of Iran. During the meeting, international experts confirmed their readiness to provide advice and assistance in program implementation. The parties have agreed to develop a Memorandum of Understanding for the Program and detailed plan of action within the framework of international cooperation.
WWF hopes that IUCN will support the project for the reintroduction of leopard.
FIRST SINO RUSSIAN SYMPOSIUM
Un symposium russo chinois pour la protection du tigre de l'Amour se tiendra à Hunchun du 19 au 21 Octobre, à l'initiative de plusieurs institutions des deux pays dont l'Académie chinoise des Sciences et l'Institut Severtsov. Il réunira 35 spécialistes chinois et 20 spécialistes russes. Voir le détail sur
http://premier.gov.ru/patron/en/tiger/news/16748
OLYMPIC THREAT ON THE WHOLE TERRITORY
SOURCE : WWF RUSSIA, ce jour
Today on the official website of the State Duma was posted the text of the draft Federal Law No 549129-5
WWF believes in this project as a threat throughout the reserve system in our country, because:
- allows the Government of the Russian Federation by its decision to transfer reserves to national parks - areas with less stringent security;
- removes restrictions on the construction of tourist facilities and physical fitness in National Parks;
- authorizes the destruction of rare and endangered trees and shrubs.
The need for this legislation the developers explain the needs of the program of development of resorts in the North Caucasus.
However, WWF carried out consultation with the JSC
"It seems we are faced with a repetition of Olympic history, when for the needs of the Olympic Games in Sochi was taken legislative ban on public sporting events in all national parks, although it was possible to confine Sochi," said Igor Chestin, director of WWF-Russia. - In addition, in 2006, allegedly for the needs of the Olympics was supposed to withdraw the land under the Sochi Park golf clubs, hotels, spas, etc. Only the personal intervention of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, decided to postpone the Olympic venues stop this orgy with the withdrawal of lands. "
"We believe that, indeed, a number of reserves for historical reasons, have always been more national
parks, and is probably correct to bring it into line - said Vladimir Krever, head of programs for the conservation of biodiversity. - This, for example, is a nature
reserve
WWF-Russia proposes to delete from the draft law of amendments to the legislation on specially protected natural areas, while at the same time, accelerating the adoption of the negotiated and agreed by all the experts of the bill, awaiting second reading in 2008, despite the orders of the President and the Prime Minister.
