BIODIVERSITE TOTALE RECONSTRUITE
Dans la région de Khabarovsk, le Parc Annuisky accueille un nombre croissant de tigres, des champs de soja et d'avoine étant préparés pour leurs proies, et offre des conditions de vie meilleures aux pêcheurs autochtones. Il assure aussi la sensibilisation des jeunes générations à la vie en harmonie avec leur riche environnement naturel (source détaillée : Pavel Fomenko pour le WWF Russie, ce jour).
http://www.wwf.ru/resources/news/article/10481
Par ailleurs, la Société Rolex soutient désormais activement le Phoenix Fund et son Directeur Sergeï Bereznuk pour leur action de protection du tigre de l'Amour (voir le site du Phoenix Fund ce jour).
http://www.phoenix.vl.ru/index.php?pg=1354147688
POUPONNIERE PROTECTRICE
LE TIGRE : UNE ASSURANCE - VIE POUR 400 MILLIONS DE PERSONNES
Inde : La forêt de Goa (dans les Ghats occidentales) n'est pas seulement une zone de transit pour les tigres mais une résidence permanente qui leur sert de pouponnière. Dans cette région, leur fonctionnalité écologique en lien avec la forêt et les rivières assure eau et subsistance à 400 millions de personnes (source : Times of India, ce jour).
PANAJI: Goa's forests do not just have a transit population of tigers, but the Western Ghats in the state are new settlement grounds for families of tigers that need to protect young ones, Mike Pandey, multiple green Oscar awardee and winner of several international honours for his documentaries on environmental issues, told TOI on Friday.
"Goa's forests have a transit tiger population that move in and out of the state from forests of the neighbouring states. But the Western Ghats in Goa serve as grounds for tigers when they have babies and are looking for new areas to settle in. I have been working in the Tillari area up to Dandeli and the Western Ghats of southern Goa. I have been following the pug marks of a tiger in the region for the last ten years and the tiger is a resident one in south Goa and not one who has migrated," Pandey said.
He said that mining is important but not at the cost of the destruction of the Western Ghats, which are the oldest forests in the world and act as a water sponge. "The tiger is the protector of the forests. That is why we are stressing so much on his preservation. He keeps the chain of life going in the forests," Pandey said.
According to the acclaimed filmmaker, destroying the Western Ghats is like shooting one's own foot. "The Western Ghats are the water sponge that keep 400 million people going, including one of the world's biggest waterfalls, the Jog Falls in Karnataka. They have some of the rarest species and most of it is yet to be discovered for its use to mankind. Sixty-five per cent of the forests consist of medicinal plants. But we need to save them for one major reason and that is water," he said.
It is greed alone that is leading to unregulated mining and destruction of the Ghats for it, Pandey said.
POUR UN SUIVI PLUS PRECIS.
Par ailleurs, une étude scientifique de suivi des déplacements des tigres va être engagée, à partir de Février - Mars 2013 et pour une période de 5 ans renouvelable, dans la réserve Tadoba - Andari concernant une population estimée à 65 individus (voire le double en considérant la zone frontière extérieure). Le sauvetage d'une tigresse en Octobre 2011 a été le catalyseur d'un tel projet (source : Times of India, ce jour).
NAGPUR: For the first time in the country, a massive exercise to study and understand the movement of tigers will be undertaken from next year. It entails radio-collaring a number of dispersing wildcats in and around Tadoba, in Chandrapur district.
The Rs 1.70 crore project - long-term comprehensive monitoring of tigers, co-predators, and prey animals- has been approved for five years, beginning March 2013, but may be extended for another five if the need arises. The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) will chip in with Rs 1.15 crore while the rest of the funds will come from the Maharashtra government.
At the last count, there were 65 tigers in Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR, 625 sq kms) and its buffer area (1102 sq kms). An equal number is present in its landscape which covers a radius of 50-60 kms. With Tadoba being the breeding ground, a conservative guesstimate is that at least 5-7 tigers annually will be moving out to mark own territories. Cubs between 18 months and 2 years will be radio collared.
Apart from the census which is undertaken every year to estimate the tiger population, no such exercise has ever been done in the country. "The telemetry studies have been conducted by scientists not states and that too in bits and pieces," said K Ullas Karanth, the well-known wildlife expert, who did a study 1990-1996.
He also named Raghu Chundawat, in the early 2000s, and WII's Dr YV Jhala, in Kanha, Sunderban and Panna, as the others who have conducted telemetry (radio-collaring) studies. Abroad, David Smith in the 1990s "did a good radiotelemetry study of dispersal in Nepal", Karanth informed.
Jhala had radio-collared at least 10 tigers in Kanha tiger reserve in Madhya Pradesh out of which one tigress traversed almost 250km in 4 months to reach Pench in Maharashtra in December 2007.
"Scientist and expert on big cats from WII, Dr Bilal Habib will head the project," said SWH Naqvi, principal chief conservator of forests (wildlife), Maharashtra. The draft agreement between the three agencies is being readied.
"The plan is to study where the dispersing tigers go, breed and have their prey base," Naqvi told TOI.
Pune's Yashwantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration (YASHDA) is already conducting study of tiger corridors. Naqvi said the organization's study is restricted to the corridors between Pench and Tadoba.
Naqvi had been pursuing the project with NTCA since January but it was finally approved at a meeting in Delhi on October 2. "With the study, we hope to take timely mitigation measures in case of serious issues like man-animal conflict," he said.
Monitoring tigers
* Study population dynamics of tigers in Tadoba, its buffer and adjoining landscape extending till Nagbhid-Bhiwapur-Umred.
* Knowing occupancy, breeding, prey-base, ecology and corridors.
* Dispersing tiger cubs from Tadoba will be radio-collared.
* The project is for five years and will be extended for another five years if need felt.
* Of the Rs 1.70 crore, NTCA to give Rs 1.15 crore while rest will be shared by state government.
* The project will be launched between February and March 2013.
Tass tigress shows the way
The Tass (about 60 kms from Nagpur) tigress, which was rescued from an open canal well on October 13, 2011 and radio-collared before its release in the wild on November 27, seems to have shown the way. It was the first successful experiment in the country of a tigress being rescued and released successfully after collaring. The tigress had reached the doorstep of Tadoba reserve a month after its release. The radio collar has now fallen off after its shelf life of six months.
CHIFFRE D'AFFAIRES
TIGRES DE SIBERIE ET DE CHINE DU SUD : CHIFFRES OFFICIELS DE POPULATIONS CAPTIVES. (Source : China Daily du 20 Novembre - 2 articles distincts -).
Les tigres de Chine du Sud ont un effectif actuel, à l'état sauvage, situé entre 0 et 30 individus (l'avis majoritaire des naturalistes penchant pour une population relictuelle inférieure à 5 individus, peut être dans l'immense Cordillère des Frênes (1700 km) de Chine centrale. Ce sont ces animaux que Li Quan (Save China's tigers. org) s'efforce de rendre à la vie sauvage dans une vallée sud - africaine.
Les populations captives (à divers degrés) seraient passées de 47 en 1995) à 120 aujourd'hui.
Par ailleurs, la plus grande "ferme à tigres" chinoise, située dans le Heilong Jang, en Chine du Nord Est, et qui héberge des tigres de Sibérie, annonce 91 naissances pour 2012, ce qui porterait ses effectifs actuels à 1067...
NASSES
SUMATRA : DOMMAGES CONNEXES A L'EXPLOITATION FORESTIERE.
Le nombre de tigres décline à grande vitesse. Cent vingt pièges ont été découverts autour du Parc de Kerinci Seblat.
(Source : Jakarta Post du 20 Novembre).
In spite of its status as a critically endangered species on the verge of extinction, the population of the Sumatran Tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae) in the Kerinci Seblat National Park (TNKS) in Jambi has been dwindling due to rampant illegal hunting.
The population in the park had declined from 300 to 165 in 10 years, TNKS official Dian Rusdianto said on Tuesday as quoted by tempo.co.
Dian said that illegal hunting and poaching were still rampant in the area and TNKS officers recently confiscated 120 tiger traps set by hunters around the park.
“The diminishing population isn’t only caused by hunting and poaching, but also forest destruction by corporations which have damaged the park,” she said.
The forest damage does not only pose a threat to the habitat of the Sumatran tiger, but also other animals which the tigers prey on such as deer, tapir and warthog, according to her.
The park has been running conservation programs, making routine inspections on tiger traps and protecting the tiger’s habitat, Dian said.
The park also tried to conserve the habitats of other animals living there, she added.
“The ones that need to be protected are animals which the tigers prey on because they can survive in any conditions as long as they have food all the time,” Dian said.
The Sumatran tiger is the last tiger species in Indonesia. Two other tiger species, namely the Bali and Java tigers, have been extinct since the 1950s and 1960s, respectively.
Based on the Borner study, which took place in 1978, the Sumatran tiger population was estimated at 1,000 in the 1970s. In 1985, its population dwindled to 800 in 26 protected forest areas.
Its current population is estimated to hover in the range of 500.
UN CONSTAT REALISTE
LE SPECIALISTE INDIEN VALMIK THAPAR TEMOIGNE DE SON PESSIMISME SUR L'AVENIR DU TIGRE DANS SON PAYS, ET MET EN CAUSE L'INCURIE CONCEPTUELLE ET ORGANISATIONNELLE DU PRESENT GOUVERNEMENT, EN PARTICULIER SON DEPARTEMENT DES QUESTIONS FORESTIERES (source : The Hindu du 18 Novembre).
Neither the balmy sea air, nor the beautiful morning in Kochi seems to alleviate Valmik Thapar’s anger at the condition of the tiger in the country. The Tiger Man of India, much like the majestic cat, purrs, chuffs, growls, roars and lambasts the governing system whose apathy he believes has brought the tiger to the brink.
He has been on all government committees that make rules and laws regarding wildlife and nature parks. He has worked inside the system before he quit in sheer frustration. Valmik has written several books, made films and documentaries on the tiger and espoused the cause for the past four decades. He considers his efforts to be a failure. On a short holiday to the city Valmik spoke to The Hindu MetroPlus on the current situation, the remedies, and his latest book that’s not on the tiger.
There is an increase in the tiger population in the country. Isn’t that cause for optimism?
Population doesn’t go up by magic; there is a huge problem in the figures. There is no hope of numbers building up in the future. Where the tiger walks is the richest forest area in India. I believe the situation has regressed in the last 20 years and this is because of our politicians and our bureaucrats. It will catch us one day.
Is the situation that dismal?
At this point I see no hope. As far as I am concerned the tiger is in the gravest danger and that too from the forest department. It cannot give any relief to the tiger.
The present climate tolerates non-governance, which has led to this present crisis. I have worked with many governments, four prime ministers and been on all the committees that had anything to do with wildlife. Nothing ever happens. A rejected report is brought on after a gap of some years. Unscientific policies and poor governance have endangered the tiger the most.
What do you advocate?
The first thing is to go for a complete overhaul of the forest department. It is a department set up by the British. The service is archaic. There should be a new rule for recruitment. There should be checks, within the system, on those who exploit timber and those who protect wild life.
Secondly, there are five to six laws that govern this field - The Forest Act, The Environment Protection Act, Forest Rights Act, the Indian Forest Acts and some others. These were made in the late 1800s by the British. All these laws are fighting each other. We need one holistic law which is both prohibitive and enabling.
The third point is to forge genuine partnership between wildlife personnel and people outside the system, the local community. In a landscape like Periyar, the local naturalists should be involved in decision making.
In such a situation what would you do?
I have a wholly new concept. If you take our 42 tiger reserves, some complete mess, some better, I would roughly put a 1,000 people in all hierarchies, in all different disciplines that will help in landscape conservation. This is done in every field. The best minds are brought in. It is only in this country that we kick talent around like football. It saddens me to see the best talent in the country being ignored while the wrong people are there for the job.
What is your view on the debate over ban on tiger tourism in core areas?
I am totally against the ban. It is a complete no-no. Tourism is the only check and balance of what is happening inside a park. I am a great supporter of innovative wildlife tourism. People should be allowed to walk in the park, camp, and have the freedom to understand the language of the forest.
What is your advice?
There should be site specific tourism. Good tourism can make a difference. The forest department should engage the tourism department as equal partner and give the people a fantastic experience. Parks do better or worse depending on the individual in charge. The best thing one can do for conservation is to get the right person for the job.
What are views on the Periyar Tiger Reserve?
There are lots of problem with PTR. They tried to rehab poachers but several tiger skins were found. It is a good thing to rehab poachers but did they? It is a difficult area to manage… the boating inside the park. There needs to be innovative thinking. Money needs to go back to the local. If I was in charge of Periyar I would bring in the local people with knowledge as decision makers. Kerala is fantastic in the terms of knowledge that exists with common people. Use that talent. Don’t kick the talent.
On his favourite tiger Machli, Valmik soften at once. Machli is Noon’s offspring. She must be touching 70. I am sad about Machali. She is artificially fed on buffalo meat and kept alive, says Valmik who spends about 15 days in a month in Ranthambore.
A la fin de son interview, V. Thapar présente la thèse qu'il développe dans un livre à paraître en février 2013 : sur les 5 grands félins historiquement présents en territoire indien, le tigre, le léopard et la panthère des neiges seraient endémiques, alors que le lion et le guépard auraient été importés et se seraient épanouis pendant des siècles. De nombreux guépards de chasse et de compagnie seraient retournés à l'état sauvage (lors de leur remplacement généralisé par les caracals comme auxiliaires de chasse ?) et les lions, bien loin d'être les derniers survivants d'une souche eurasienne, auraient été importés du Mozambique...
What are you currently working on?
I have just completed my book on lions and cheetahs - Exotic Aliens, published by Aleph, to be released in February. My aunt, historian Romila Thapar, is writing the foreword. I am excited about the book.After three years of research I reached the conclusion that lions and cheetahs are not indigenous species…that the lion was imported from Mozambique and the cheetah is a total royal pet. It changes the natural history of the world. I looked at history from the eyes of an animal. Lions are mongrels. No lion existed in Kerala but lion art did. Gir was where the imported lion was bred. It is only in a certain period of time that lions and cheetahs begin to appear in our texts and art. The shikar was stage managed. Mughal historians will hate me for this. I stumbled upon this information. This is my greatest delight in all this gloom.
DANS LE MÊME TEMPS, LA CONTROVERSE ENTRE ZONES A TIGRES VIDES D'HOMMES ET DROITS DES COMMUNAUTES TRIBALES (SEPARER POUR PROTEGER OU REAPPRENDRE A COHABITER POUR Y PARVENIR SOLIDEMENT ET DURABLEMENT) EMERGE PUBLIQUEMENT AU SEIN MÊME DU GOUVERNEMENT INDIEN (Hindustan Times du 16 Novembre)...
Tiger versus human conflict has brought two central government ministries in a confrontation mode.
The tribal affairs ministry has rejected the environment ministry's decision to declare 800 to 1,200 square km of wildlife areas in 41 tiger reserves as inviolate (free from any interference) for
the big cat without settling the rights of locals.
The environment ministry had provided for this inviolate space as a mandatory condition to regulate tourism in tiger reserves. The rules were notified despite a dissent note of the two members of the rules drafting committee on the ground that it did not violate the “spirit” of the Forest Rights Act.
Tribal Affairs minister V Kishore Chandra Deo thinks differently.
“The inviolate space for wildlife should be determined on a case-to-case basis
taking into account local factors envisaged in the Forest Rights Act, instead of having a universal criterion of 800-1,200 sq kms,” Deo said in a letter to environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan.
Deo's fear is that through declaration of a universal inviolate area, the National
Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) aims to bring buffer areas within the ambit of inviolate areas, thereby resulting curtailment of rights of local communities.
The minister has asked Natarajan to revise the guidelines to state that relocation of villages will only take place in criticial wildlife habitats and on voluntary basis after settlement of rights.
He also wants the relocation package of R10 lakh per family without any rehabilitation process for villagers inside core areas to be scrapped because poor forest dwellers can be coerced to accept this “dangerous” option.
In his view, the package should include both money and adequate relocation.
... ALORS QUE DES RIVERAINS DE FUTURES RESERVES A TIGRES EXPRIMENT LEUR INQUIETUDE FACE A CETTE PERSPECTIVE (source : Times of India, ce jour 21 Novembre 2012).
KOCHI: Do we've to paint our houses and shops in wild green if Wayanad is declared a tiger reserve? Do we
have to keep a vessel filled with water every night for tigers to drink and turn on all lights around the house?
These are some of the RTI questions posed to forest top brass ever since rumours about an impending declaration of Wayanad as a tiger reserve went viral. But the Forest Department thinks that the
queries reflect a bigger plan for land grab in the area by creating the bogey of a tiger reserve destabilising lives in the neighbourhood.
Citing other RTI queries to substantiate this, a senior officer told TOI that "most of the queries seek details of land owners who are voluntarily surrendering their holding for facilitating the
demarcation of the proposed reserve''.
Ironically, these questions are flooding the department when there is absolutely no move to declare the area a tiger reserve. "Another questioner wants to know restrictions that would be imposed
on construction activities. Yet another query has demanded all details of our rehabilitation plan,'' he said.
Three other questions seek a detailed map of the area indicating various zones like buffer, core, etc. "We strongly feel that this is part of an orchestrated campaign,'' a source told TOI.
A report from Wayanad submitted by D K Varma, CCF, northern circle, has stated that "the presence of miscreants who are misleading the local population needs to be probed.'' Their instigation is
the main reason for agitations turning unusually violent of late. The CCF also noted mischievous spread of rumours like how a circus company had let its tigers free in Muthanga thus leading to widespread panic. A trigger for the rumour mongering is the recent spate of cattle lifting by tigers. That is no
new phenomenon in Wayanad.
Cattle-killer to be hunted down
Given the high possibility of the cattle-killer tiger of Wayanad turning into a man-eater, the forest department has decided to hunt it down.
V Gopinathan, CCF, in an order issued on Tuesday said a five-member team will ascertain its identity before hunting it by
tranquilizing or using cages and "failing which by other means''.
SERGEÏ BEREZNUK DANS LE FIGARO
SERGEÏ BEREZNUK, LE PRESIDENT DU PHOENIX FUND, ETAIT A L'HONNEUR DANS LE FIGARO.FR DU 9 NOVEMBRE.
(Article de Martine Betti - Cusso).
Dans l'Extrême-Orient russe, Sergueï Bereznuk, lauréat du prix Rolex 2012 pour l'esprit d'entreprise, tente de sauver le tigre de Sibérie, emblème de son pays.
Mais qu'est devenue Olga? Plus personne n'a de nouvelles de ce tigre de Sibérie, malgré son collier équipé d'un émetteur. Pistée depuis quatorze ans par les scientifiques russes, cette femelle qui a donné vie à six portées - 13 petits au total dont 6 ont survécu - a disparu du jour au lendemain. Sergueï Bereznuk, directeur de Phoenix Fund, une ONG environnementaliste, en est persuadé: elle a été tuée par les braconniers.Nous sommes en Sibérie orientale, dans la taïga, entre Vladivostok, la frontière chinoise et la mer du Japon. Cette région du Primorié, dans le sud de l'Extrême-Orient russe, abrite 350 à 500 tigres de Sibérie (Panthera tigris altaica). On estime qu'il en subsiste 4 000 aujourd'hui dans le monde, vivant à l'état sauvage, contre 100.000 en 1900. Dans ce vaste territoire de 165.900 km², les tigres de Sibérie côtoient des loups gris et des ours bruns, des cerfs tachetés et des sangliers, des lynx et les derniers léopards de l'Amour. La nature est splendide. Cèdres, bouleaux, épicéas, ifs ou ginsengs sibériens couvrent les pentes des montagnes et des collines, offrant à ce félin un refuge idéal.
La chasse au tigre est interdite depuis 1947, mais la perestroïka ayant ouvert les frontières avec la Chine, le braconnage destructeur s'amplifie. Les Chinois sont demandeurs des organes, ossements et peau de ce félin pour des potions médicinales et autres aphrodisiaques. Aujourd'hui, le tigre de Sibérie doit sa survie à la vigilance de quelques dizaines de gardes des réserves nationales et à la passion d'un environnementaliste, Sergueï Bereznuk, lauréat du prix Rolex pour l'esprit d'entreprise 2012. Sauf à être né avenue du Tigre à Vladivostok, rien ne prédestinait Sergueï, diplômé de l'institut polytechnique de cette ville, à épouser la cause des grands fauves. L'homme est modeste mais fier de son travail, qu'il considère comme un devoir national. Au-delà de l'animal, c'est le drapeau de la région dont l'emblème est le tigre qu'il défend.
Serguei Bereznuk ( à droite) accompagne la brigade anti-braconnage. Dans cette région, à l'ouest de Vladivostok, près de la frontière chinoise, les tigres de Sibériecôtoient les dernières panthères de l'Amour. Crédits photo : Christophe LEPETIT
Le prix Rolex, doté de 100.000 francs suisses, va lui donner de nouveaux moyens dans son combat et lui permettre d'attirer l'attention de la presse sur le sort de ses protégés. Efficace, déterminé et soutenu par une équipe de six personnes, il sait déployer une énergie redoutable pour lutter contre le braconnage mais aussi convaincre les autochtones, traditionnellement chasseurs, de la nécessité de préserver les forêts et les ongulés (cerfs, chevreuils et sangliers), proies habituelles de ce carnassier qui a besoin d'avaler chaque jour dix kilos de viande fraîche. S'il ne trouve pas bonne pitance, le tigre s'attaque aux chiens et troupeaux des villageois de la taïga, ce qui crée des tensions et donne prétexte à des battues de représailles parfois meurtrières.«Au-delà des problèmes de voisinage avec la population locale, les plus grands ennemis du tigre sont les braconniers, affirme Sergueï. Notre priorité est de soutenir les brigades anti-braconnage, en sous-effectifs et sous-équipées.
Nous leur apportons du matériel, des pièces de rechange pour leurs véhicules de patrouille. Nous les équipons de quads pour faciliter leurs déplacements dans la forêt. Nous participons à leur formation et travaillons à améliorer leur organisation...» Au cours de leurs patrouilles, de jour comme de nuit, les brigades relèvent les empreintes d'animaux, les traces de pas humains, de pneus, de douilles de fusils. tout ce qui peut conduire la police, à qui ces indices sont remis, aux coupables. Ils dressent des procès-verbaux, confisquent les armes, tendent des embuscades. S'il est difficile de prendre les braconniers sur le fait, ce travail d'enquête mène les policiers à inspecter des véhicules, à perquisitionner dans les habitations. Récemment, sept peaux de tigres ont été trouvées dans une maison. Les braconniers, souvent des gens du coin, piègent les tigres en les attirant avec des chiens ou des restes d'ongulés.
Visite dans une école primaire de Slavyanka pour sensibiliser les enfants à la protection des grands fauves. Crédits photo : Christophe LEPETIT
Les arrestations conduisent à des amendes aux montants plus ou moins élevés selon que les faits se commettent à l'intérieur ou à l'extérieur des zones protégées. Un tigre abattu, c'est une amende de 2 300 euros, 780 euros si l'animal est blessé ou tué avec un véhicule. Une peine peu proportionnelle au marché lucratif (une dent de tigre rapporte 700 euros, et une peau 16.000 euros) et au crime commis contre la nature. En parallèle à ce soutien, Sergueï et son équipe veillent à sensibiliser les habitants, par l'entremise des enfants, à l'aide de programmes éducatifs et en organisant le Festival du tigre à Vladivostok. Jeunes et moins jeunes déguisés en tigre défilent dans les rues. La manifestation attire des milliers de personnes. Tous ces efforts portent peu à peu leurs fruits. Sur la liste rouge de l'Union internationale pour la conservation de la nature (UICN), le tigre de Sibérie n'est plus mentionné espèce «en danger critique d'extinction» mais - petit progrès - espèce «en danger».
ESSAIMAGE
Les deux tigreaux pris en charge par un mâle au printemps 2011 (voir "Un bon père..." du 7 juillet dernier) sont en âge d'établir leur propre territoire. Ils vont être transférés de Ranthambore (saturé) vers Sariska (Times of India du 11 Novembre).
JAIPUR: The Ranthambhore National Park (RNP) is facing the problem of plenty. In a bid to save tigers and avoid man-animal conflict, the forest department officials plan to relocate two tigers to the Sariska Tiger Reserve (STR) - Bina I and Bina II. The two orphaned cubs, of T5 of Kachida, created history by being taken care of by their father T 28. "The tigers are growing and need their own territory. At the moment they are living on the periphery and often stray into the villages and urban areas.
PREMIER VRAI RECENSEMENT
Les autorités du Nord Est de la Chine ont lancé le premier recensement véritable des tigres de cette région (source : China Daily du 11 Novembre) estimés à 20 ou 22 individus en 2006. Celui - ci s'inscrit dans le cadre d'une politique créant les conditions pour un accroissement des effectifs.
HARBIN - Authorities in Northeast China's Heilongjiang province are conducting a survey to find the exact number of endangered Siberian tigers as their numbers may have increased.
Sun Haiyi, deputy head of the Wild Animals Research Institute of Heilongjiang, said the province had set up more than 20 monitoring sites. Information will be submitted to the country's relevant authorities.
"Since 2005, wild Siberian tigers have been spotted many times by monitoring cameras in Laoye Mountain and Wanda Mountain areas in Heilongjiang," Sun told Xinhua.
He estimated that the number of wild Siberian tigers might have increased thanks to the protection efforts in recent years. Dead tigers were also found in Wanda Mountain and Mishan area, he added.
Sun said the conservation of natural forests had contributed a lot to the restoration of the food chain of Siberian tigers.
According to a survey in 2006 and 2007, Heilongjiang has about 12 wild Siberian tigers while neighboring Jilin Province has eight to ten such tigers, the expert said.
Yang Lijuan, an official with the Dongfanghong Forestry Bureau in Heilongjiang, said the bureau would add six food supply sites, from the current four, for the prey of wild Siberian tigers this winter.
Such artificial feeding could increase the numbers of red deer and roes to ensure the food source for the Siberian tigers, Yang said.
Siberian tigers, one of the world's rarest animal species, mainly live in east Russia, northeast China and northern part of the Korean Peninsula. Some 500 Siberian tigers currently live in the wild.
APPEL DU PHOENIX FUND
APPEL AUX FONDS POUR ASSURER LE RETOUR A LA VIE SAUVAGE D'UNE TIGRESSE RECUEILLIE AU CENTRE DE L'ASSOCIATION. Cet appel a été relayé sur le site du Président de la Fédération de Russie.
Donations as of November 13th 2012
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Donations from
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Amount |
| Moscow residents | 1900 RU |
| Blagoveschensk residents | 1000 RU |
| Novosibirsk residents | 2000 RU |
| Vladivostok residents | 5303 RU |
| Spassk residents | 200 RU |
| Arseniev residents | 300 RU |
| Tomsk residents | 5000 RU |
| Tver residents | 300 RU |
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TOTAL |
16003 RU |
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© WCS Cinderella |
Young tigress called "Cinderella" (Zolushka) extremely needs your help! She is currently being prepared for her return to the wild, but lack of funding may leave her little chance for
release back into her natural habitat. Cinderella will stay in the centre this winter; it is hoped that she will be released in early spring 2013.
Cinderella desperately needs your help! To rehabilitate and release the tigress in the wild is to give the Amur tiger population one more chance to increase its numbers. Just
imagine how many cubs this female tiger can give birth to in her lifetime. At the moment we are asking concerned people to help us raise funds to feed the tigress during her stay at the
centre.
This year, after one-year construction works in Primorsky province (Russian Far East), a new rehabilitation centre for Amur tigers and other wildlife finally opened its doors. And in April 2012 a
young Amur tigress named “Cinderella” has become the first resident of the centre.
The Cinderella’s story began in February 2012, when people found the young orphaned tigress in freezing conditions. She was unable to survive for long on her own. The animal aged approximately
5-6 months was so exhausted that she could be easily handled. Her foreleg and tail were frostbitten. According to the vets, if the female tiger had not been rescued that day, she would have died
the next. The cub weighed up to 16 kilograms (35 lbs). First, it was decided to put the animal in quarantine for three weeks under constant control of veterinarians in an improvised shelter
specially constructed by wildlife specialists. Then, after the tigress began to recover and gain weight, the specialists spent much time discussing the possibilities for her release back into the
wild. A unanimous decision was to transport the female tiger to the rehabilitation centre where it would be taught hunting technics. At first, small animals like hares and badgers were to be put
in a special enclosure with the tigress. Then, the predator would learn to hunt sika deer. During this “training course” the tigress must be completely isolated from people, so that the animal
can develop a fear of humans.
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With her first days in the centre, the tigress called Cinderella felt herself at home. She liked a cool den artificially made of rocks which gives her shelter at sunny and hot days. Also,
Cinderella enjoys cooling down in a small pond near the den. Animal care staff can keep an eye on all her movements from an observation tower or by watching on-line videos from video cameras
installed along the perimeter of the enclosure. The tigress has already learned to hunt hares, and now is gaining skills to hunt deer. The centre’s caretakers do their best to increase her
chances for release in the wild. Cinderella will stay in the centre this winter and has a good chance of being released in March-April 2013.
We desperately need funding for her care over the winter. Your help would give Cinderella a better chance of returning to the taiga and potentially having her own cubs in the future.
PLEASE DONATE NOW! Whatever you can give would be gratefully received. Thank you.
You can donate via Wildlife Alliance, our American partner, or through Amur Leopard and Tiger Alliance.
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DEBUT D'APPLICATION
SUITE A L'ARTICLE "CLARIFICATION" DU 30 OCTOBRE DERNIER.
En attendant un durcissement significatif effectif dans la législation anti braconnage à partir de l'été 2013, un habitant du district du Primorye, A. Belyaev, a été condamné ce jour à 575 125 roubles d'amende, confiscation de son arme et retrait définitif de son droit de chasse, pour avoir abattu un tigre avec préméditation. Le tribunal lui inflige un an de prison suivi de deux mois de service communautaire.
Les sanctions peuvent paraître dérisoires aux yeux d'un occidental, qui s'appuie notamment sur la longueur de la peine de prison pour évaluer la dureté de la peine. Dans le contexte de la Province Maritime, elles constituent cependant un progrès significatif, provoquant la satisfaction des protecteurs de la Nature et s'inscrivant dans une dynamique plus vaste (voir "clarification" du 30 octobre).
Dans cet environnement socio - écologique, la prison est considérée comme la partie la plus légère de la peine, voire comme une sécurité. En effet, la confiscation définitive de l'arme de chasse a des conséquences très lourdes, son propriétaire s'enfonçant souvent dans une très grande précarité économique et risquant, qui plus est, la mort sociale, s'il ne peut pas émigrer.
Qui plus est, un facteur psychologique aggravant est l'idée locale, profondément ancrée, de la "marque du tigre", selon
laquelle celui qui a "croisé le fer" avec l'animal et en a réchappé sera impitoyablement pourchassé par les congénères de ce dernier.
C'est la troisième condamnation effective prononcée à l'encontre d'un braconnier de tigre(s) depuis trois ans.
Entre 1991 et 2009, une seule peine avait été prononcée.
Les faits concernant la décision d'aujourd'hui remontent au 15 novembre 2010. Ils ont nécessité une longue enquête pour établir que le chasseur n'était pas, comme il l'affirmait, en état de légitime défense. La reconstitution a permis d'établir une longue traque du tigre par l'homme, dans des conditions particulièrement pénibles et sordides pour l'animal. Celui - ci, blessé à plusieurs reprises (3 pattes touchées) a fini par se retourner dans une fureur desespérée contre son agresseur, parvenant à blesser celui - ci.
La victime a ensuite agonisé toute la nuit au fond d'une fosse, pour mourir au petit matin d'une hémorragie interne massive (voir le détail sur le site du WWF Russie, ce jour).
Voir aussi le Siberian Times d'aujourd'hui.
A man has been jailed for gunning down a protected Siberian tiger in the Far Eastern Russian region of Primoye.
Amur tiger gunned by Alexander Belyaev, now banned from hunting for life. Picture: Russian WWF, Sergei Aramilev
A man has been jailed for gunning down a protected Siberian tiger in the Far Eastern Russian region of Primoye.
He was also fined 575,000 roubes - around £18,000 - for slaughtering one of perhaps 200 of these rare big cats left in the wild.
Alexander Belyaev was also jailed for a year and sentenced to two months of community service for slaying a creature protected in the Russian Red Book.
The man was also banned for life from using a hunting gun.
The case happened two years ago but it has taken until now to be dealt with by the courts.
'Finally, now the investigation is over, so we no longer have restrictions on talking about the criminal case and can explain what happened two years ago on that day in the forest', said WWF Amur co-ordinator Sergei Aramilev.
'Imposing of penalties on those who had kill tigers is no longer an extraordinary event, and it's good news, as we see in action the principle of the inevitability of punishment.
'I recall that in the last three years, this is the third conviction. In comparison with the previous period when only one case against a poacher reached the court following the collapse of the USSR until 2009'.
The Kremlin with the WWF has recently drawn up tough new punishments for poaching, part of a concerted programme to save Siberian tigers and leopards from extinction.
Voir aussi le Moscow Times d'aujourd'hui.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/in-rare-conviction-hunter-fined-18100-for-killing-amur-tiger/471403.html
