Phoenix Fund “Wildlife Conservation in the Russian Far East in 2009” Final report January – December 2009 Phoenix Fund Suite 409, 2 Petra Velikogo Street, Vladivostok 690091, Russia Phone: +7-4232-205053 , Fax +7-4232-205048 E-mail:
[email protected] Website: www.phoenix.vl.ru Phoenix Final Report _____________________________________________________________________________________________ January1 – December 31, 2009 I. Project Overview ALTA in Russia. WCS and ZSL implement ecological research, wildlife health projects, Primorye in the south of the Russian Far population monitoring and other scientific East represents the only area in the world work in the Amur leopard’s range. To where the Amur / Siberian tiger still exists in struggle with poaching and strengthen the wild. Tiger census in 2005 revealed protection activities in tiger habitat Phoenix numbers crept back up to 431-529, but the supports anti-poaching activities of various Amur tiger population is still vulnerable due state environmental law enforcement to poaching, habitat destruction, prey agencies, including the Western wildlife depletion and many other factors. In managers’ team of Primorsky Hunting October 2009, the Wildlife Conservation Management Department. The team Society reported about Amur tiger’s decline operates in the north of Primorye by 40% compared to 2005 estimates due to (Krasnoarmeisky, Dalnerechensky, poaching. It is an alarming signal urging Pozharsky, Kirovsky and Terneisky conservationists and decision-makers of all districts), still rich in wildlife and cedar tiger range countries to strengthen tiger forests. Thanks to support from the conservation efforts through anti-poaching Kolmarden Fund Raising Foundation, the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and 21st Century Tiger the Western team operated in full and conducted its anti-poaching activities in 2009.