Le retour du tigre en Europe: le blog d'Alain Sennepin

SITUATION PRES D'UN AN APRES LE SOMMET DE ST PETERSBOURG ET A LA VEILLE DU TIGER DAY (source: WWF Russia, ce jour).

In the run-up to Tiger Day to be celebrated in Vladivostok and Moscow on Sunday, WWF assesses the results of the International Forum on tiger conservation on Earth - nearly a year after the event in St. Petersburg.

  At the International Forum on the conservation of tigers in the world , which was held November 21-24 in St. Petersburg, delegations from 13 countries endorsed a range of rare cat 12-year-old Global Programme of restoration of the tiger . At the forum, Vladimir Putin has supported the proposed measures WWF to save the Amur tiger: sustainable forest management and a ban on felling of cedar, increasing penalties for poaching and illegal trade in parts, the creation of transboundary reserves with China.

  What was actually done since then?

• Several days before the forum, the Russian government has made ​​a cedar in the list of banned breeds in the wheelhouse and the list of CITES;
•  Tiger range countries adopted a strategy of conservation of the Amur tiger and the Action Plan.   States have made a commitment to tiger conservation, and donors have allocated additional funds;
• The Russian government has agreed on borders of a future national park   "Land of Leopard" with the expansion of the boundaries of existing protected areas to 289 hectares.

  What was done in part?

• Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Yury Trutnev instructed relevant departments of the Ministry to work out the issue of reducing the rates of payment per unit of area of hunting grounds at the conclusion of agreements in individual ohothozyaystvennyh Far East regions.  High rents do not allow hunting to work effectively, including invest in increasing the number of ungulates, which is necessary to save the tiger.  However, the commission Trutnev yet not been fulfilled.
• Prepared by the rationale for creating Sredneussuriyskogo Reserve - Corridor to go tiger from Russia to the ridge Vandashan in China. But now the process is stopped handing forest lease company   "Les Export" in May 2011 In August 2011 Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov ordered to replace the lease area the other area , not affecting the territory of the planned reserve.  However, until the area is still formally in a rental company   "Les Export."

  What has remained unchanged:

• No changes in articles 258 and 188 of the Criminal Code and Art. 8.35 and 8.37 of the Administrative Code, which would have toughened penalties for killing a tiger, as well as transportation and storage of its derivatives;
• Not taken steps to increase the number of hoofed animals, no changes in Federal Law   "On Hunting", allowing to keep ungulates at a high level;
• Poaching has been and remains a major threat to tigers and illegal logging in tiger habitat have reached alarming proportions. However, the subsidy for the protection of rare species for ohotnadzora Primorye and Khabarovsk territories were not increased and the forest protection service still can not work effectively;
• Do not set up a rehabilitation center in a specially authorized body, not provided an Amur tiger monitoring by the state and a single point of monitoring.

Tiger Day in Vladivostok

September 25 in Vladivostok for the 12th time will be the brightest day Tigra.Eto holiday town, this Far East pageant in honor of the character of Vladivostok and Primorye.

For the first time Tiger Day in Vladivostok, said in 2000, and each year the event includes more and more cities of Primorye Territory and transcends it. Tiger Day will open the carnival parade through the streets of Vladivostok, which will join striped-red river in the central city square. Here appreciate carnival columns, hold competitions of drawings on the pavement, for the best costume tiger makeup, award winners, listen and watch performances of children's creative teams.

This year, in a convoy of World Wildlife Fund (WWF) will volunteer WWF - the most active participants of the action   "Plant a Forest for the leopard." With their help, WWF Russia this spring planted seedlings of cedar 576 000 in the world of Leopard and Tiger. With them on the streets of Vladivostok will be stepping environmental patrols schools Khasan Region - Winners role-playing game "National Park  "Land of Leopard", which will be held on the eve of Slavyanka, as well as winners of the contest information banner-headlines family to save the pine plantations on fire in the Khasan district.  Come on holiday and the boys from the village of Primorsky Territory Chuguevka - an area where the Siberian tiger lives.  This is a club of friends WWF "Edelweiss" High School named after Alexander Fadeev.

Traditionally, the festival is supported by the regional and municipal governments and environmental organizations such as the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the Fund, "Phoenix", the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW). "Business Solyushn" has developed a scenario of the holiday by bringing in a lot of fresh ideas.

Tiger Day in Moscow

September 24 at 12:00 pm will celebrate the Day of the tiger in the Moscow Zoo. Children waiting for master classes, where you can learn to paint and sculpt the tigers, and in the exhibition hall will showcase interesting videos.  And, of course, all will meet with your own guilty triumph - the Amur tiger. The U.S. Embassy in Moscow in celebration RFuchastvuet Zoo Tiger Day. This year it coincided with the release of a new U.S. postage stamp with the image of the Amur tiger, which will be presented at the festival. This stamp will cost 11 cents more expensive than usual, and the difference in cost will finance practical work to conserve the most vulnerable and endangered wildlife around the world: tigers, elephants, rhinos, great apes and marine turtles. Post of Russia produced their own card in support of wildlife conservation in Russia, which also will be presented at the Day of the tiger.  In celebration of Day of the tiger in the Moscow Zoo will also attend non-profit organizations - World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), the Fund   "Cupid" and the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW).

LA REFORESTATION A GRANDE ECHELLE EST "DANS LES TETES"

53 MILLIARDS DE DOLLARS PAR AN POUR REHABILITER 150 MILLIONS D'HECTARES DE FORÊT DANS LE MONDE D'ICI 2020

Un peu moins de 3 fois la France. Il est reconnu que les espaces que l'on peut restaurer équivalent à la superficie de ce qui fut l'URSS, soit plus de 13 fois ce qui est proposé ici.

Restoration could be worth £53 billion to global economy

September 2011: A core commitment to restore 150 million hectares of lost forests and degraded lands worldwide by 2020 has been launched at a ministerial conference in Bonn. New analysis by IUCN estimates that restoring 150 million hectares would be worth £53billion per year to national and global economies.

At the Bonn Challenge Ministeral Roundtable, a select group of ministers and chief executives of international and non-governmental organisations and companies discussed how to benefit biodiversity and the fight against climate change through concrete restoration activities.

Ecosystems will become healthy and resilient
‘The restoration of lost forests will increase carbon stocks and result in healthy and resilient ecosystems, which will provide the multiple goods and services people need, and lead to an increase in biodiversity,' says Ashok Khoshla, President of IUCN, which acts as coordinator of the Global Partnership on Forest & Landscape Restoration (GPFLR).

The landmark commitment in Bonn comes as new analysis shows that more than two billion hectares of the world's deforested and degraded landscapes - equivalent to half the size of Asia - offer opportunities for restoration. This new global estimate is almost double the area previously considered restorable, thanks to improvements in the precision of mapping zones where climate and soils allow forests to grow.

This core committment is a realistic response
‘Recognising that national circumstances vary enormously, this core commitment to restore 150 million hectares is a robust and realistic response to the global assessment,' says Stewart Maginnis, IUCN's Global Director of Environment and Development. ‘What is needed urgently is a country-by-country assessment of how this commitment could be achieved in line with national economic development and conservation priorities, something we have already started doing in Ghana and Mexico.'

The 150 million hectare restoration target directly relates to existing international commitments on climate change and biodiversity. It will contribute to the biodiversity convention target calling for restoration of 15 per cent of degraded ecosystems by 2020, and the climate change convention goal on REDD-Plus, which calls for countries to slow, halt and reverse the loss and degradation of forests.

Cost-effective way to combat climate change
With preliminary analysis showing the value of restoring 150 million hectares to be £53 billion per year, forest landscape restoration can be seen as offering the world a highly cost effective way to combat climate change, create new jobs and contribute to rural development and livelihoods.

Earlier this year, IUCN expressed its support of Rwanda's historic announcement to restore the country's degraded landscapes border-to-border, predicting that it could be the beginning of the biggest restoration initiative the world has ever seen. With similar bold commitments expected to be announced at the Bonn event, co-chaired by IUCN and the German government, an unprecedented global initiative is clearly gathering momentum.

2 ans après Yuri Bersenev, Directeur du Parc Zov Tigra dans le Primorye, Aleksandr Samarin,Directeur de celui d'Anyui dans le district de Khabarovsk, est attaqué par certaines autorités locales, car il fait manifestement TROP BIEN son travail vis à vis des coupes illégales. Ils montent contre lui un dossier composé de faux grossiers.

Soutenu par ses collègues, il demande l'arbitrage du Ministre de l'Ecologie Yuri Trutnev.

SOURCE : WWF Russia, ce jour.

Held September 10-11, Coordinating Board of Directors in the southern Far East, who discussed the situation in Anyui National Park and decided to apply to the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Minister Yury Trutnev with a letter in defense of his colleague.

"This is a flagrant injustice when the authorities responsible for nature conservation, are a real witch-hunt Anyui director of the National Park Alexander Samarin, which ensured the successful establishment of this organization in the first and most difficult two years after its creation," - said the director of the Amur branch of WWF Russia's Yuri Darman, invited to the Coordinating Council.

  At first inspection of the inter-district environmental prosecutor Khabarovsk Krai used some photos of piles of wood - it turned out that Samarin to them has nothing to do. Then made a multiple testing by dividing the forest, where were sanitary cutting of firewood for: multi-volume resulted in only   "Charge" - a few columns that mark the corners of dividing, were thinner than the recommended rules. Then, in the course have gone even more strange behavior: Khabarovsk Krai Prosecutor's Office in all of Russia issued a statement that all the firewood in the national park was conducted illegally.  Director of the National Park Alexander Samarin declared a felon who made a multimillion-dollar damages to the State, it asked to immediately remove and put in the position of the local timber merchant.

Investigators were not too lazy to go to Moscow to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, to find "Evidence". Unfortunately for them, it turned out that all documents are in order, and the necessary permits for sanitary felling a national park have been received.

But again failed to put the director behind bars 'Illegal' logging, immediately attempted to find a breach in the hunt!  Immediately after the collapse of "Lesorubnogo case" is initiated by a letter "Perturbed" Nanai, residing in the national park, on charges of destroying all life in the Director of National Park and are attached to it with photos of Alexander Samarin mined bears. But it turned out that the most recent of these photos made five years ago for hunting site, on which is placed so far. Then Samarin head hunting in the area and really Nanaiskiy duty is organized trophy hunting. A sheet with the signatures have been collected Nanai still under protests in the spring of the local population against the introduction of amendments to the Fisheries Act.

What is so displeased director Alexander Samarin Anyui National Park authorities to the Khabarovsk Krai? This question was asked to investigate and Ministra Natural Resources and Environment P. Trutneva ten directors reserve the Far East and WWF Russia.

CREATION D'UN NOUVEAU PARC NATUREL POUR LES TIGRES ET LES LEOPARDS EN RUSSIE (source: site officiel du Premier Ministre V. Poutine, il y a deux jours)

http://premier.gov.ru/patron/en/tiger/news/16433

PRE - REQUIS A L'ELABORATION D'UN SCENARIO REALISTE DE SORTIE DE CRISE...

QUAND LES MOTS ONT UN SENS : RAPPEL DE L'EVIDENCE (l'exemple de la Grotte Chauvet)

La quintessence de la modernité a été atteinte il y a 32000 ans, véritable époque des Lumières, en Ardèche.

La mise en orchestration d'une cavité de 500 mètres de long par les habitants à cette époque exprime la symbiose anthropozoologique la plus achevée. La représentation des grands carnivores et herbivores sauvages exprime une empathie manifeste à leur égard. Ce chef d'oeuvre de l'art mondial a été réalisé par des hommes heureux, et reconnaissants à ceux grâce auxquels ils jouissaient d'une qualité de vie probablement inégalée depuis lors.

L'enjeu principal des décennies à venir est celui de la solide reconstitution d'une modernité telle que celle là sur l'ensemble de l'arc holarctique.

Nous sommes là assez loin, ce me semble, de la "modernité" actuelle, velléitaire et à bout de souffle, bien définie par le POCHLOST, mot russe intraduisible qui recouvre tout ce qu'il peut y avoir de vulgaire, de faux, d'inauthentique, de minable dans l'homme, l'infiniment petit et l'infiniment mesquin (selon Nabokov dans ses notes et cours sur Nicolas Gogol).

MODERNITE DE LA PIERRE POLIE

Les utilisateurs les plus réguliers de l'endroit n'étaient pas les hommes mais les ours des cavernes (de très nombreuses générations successives y furent présentes). On a retrouvé des milliers d'ossements de ces animaux, des salles qui leur servaient de nurseries, leurs traces de griffures sur les parois, de nombreuses empreintes de pas, dont ceux d'une mère et de son enfant qui gambadait autour d'elle.

De nombreuses parois sont étrangement lisses, au lieu d'être rugueuses : si les hommes, locataires ponctuels, se déplaçaient en ces lieux en s'aidant de torches, les ours, occupants réguliers, évoluaient dans l'obscurité en se frottant contre les parois, polissant celles - ci. La formule des spécialistes est "le poli d'ours".

RACINES DE L'AVENIR, LA VERITABLE FORCE

Je me contente ici de rappeler ce qu'évoquait Michel Pastoureau à propos de "Lou Moussu", "La bête moelleuse",  en 2007, dans son livre "L'ours. Histoire d'un roi déchu". Collection : La librairie du XXIème siècle. Editions du Seuil. Extrait page 42, référence bibliographique page 338.

" Car si ce ne sont pas des hommes qui ont rituellement disposé les restes de l'ours brun du Regourdou ou bien symboliquement agencé la salle du crâne de la grotte Chauvet, les seuls qui aient pu le faire, ce sont les ours eux - mêmes. Faut -il de ce fait conclure que les ours préhistoriques enterraient leurs morts ? Qu'ils pratiquaient au fond des grottes différents cultes que les hommes, plus tard, bien plus tard, ont fini par imiter? Faut - il aller jusqu'à imaginer que ce sont les ours qui ont transmis aux hommes l'idée de religion, ainsi que toutes les croyances et tous les rites qui s'y rattachent?... je sais qu'un chercheur russe pense avoir retrouvé des vestiges d'un tel culte - celui des ours par les ours eux - mêmes -, dans des cavernes sibériennes du Paléolithique, là où l'Homme n'a jamais pénétré à cette période, ni même n'a jamais été présent avant l'âge du fer."

Cité par N. Jadrincev 1980, "O kulte medvedja preimuscestvenno u severnyx inododcev", dans Etnografiskoe Obozrenie (Moscou), vol. 13, pages 101 - 113.