NEWS

Februar 2009 - WWF Deutschland startet Spendenaufruf für die Amur-Leoparden

     Zum Öffnen des WWF-Spendenaufrufs klicken sie bitte hier

    In diesem Zusammenhang möchte ich auch auf das 'Puzan-Konto'              verweisen, welches ebenfalls für Gelder zur Rettung der Amur-Leoparden eingerichtet wurde. Die Kontodaten können über info@panthera-amur.com angefragt werden, wer möchte, Paypal-Link unter 'Spenden'.

22.01.09 - 'Land of Leopards' unter Bewachung

Das im Oktober 2008 zum Schutz der Leoparden und Tiger gegründete 'Leopardovyi federal wildlife refuge' jetzt unter regelmäßiger Patrouillie...

http://www.wwf.ru/resources/news/article/eng/4487

14.11.2008 - Feuerbekämpfung im  Leopardenschutzgebiet... 

http://www.wwf.ru/resources/news/article/eng/4362

Voluntary fire-fighting brigades formed, equipped and trained with WWF’s support are helping prevent catastrophic forest fires in the habitats of one of the rarest cat of the Globe – the Far Eastern leopard.

20 hunters from Nezhinskoy hunting society were fighting severe forest fires in the very heart of the Land of the Leopard for the whole last week. A newly created wildlife refuge Leopardovyi was on fire. Being declared only in late October Leopardovyi does not yet have administrative body and is in no condition to combat forest fires WWF-Russia has provided 2000 Euros for purchasing fuel. Air pumps, three tractors and five vehicles helped volunteers to suppress fires only on November 12 when about 400 hectares were already lost in flame.

In 2007-2008, WWF-Russia handed over to 15 voluntary fire-fighting brigades of Khasanskii and Nadezhdinskii districts 30 air pumps, back pack water pumps, protective outfit and equipment; Nezhinskii hunting society received a tractor.

Konstantin Kobyakov, staff of WWF-Russia Amur branch forest program notes, “Today our recent efforts prove results. Nowadays, when governmental organizations have lost control over the situation in the forests volunteers help prevent catastrophic fires.”

During fire dangerous period, brigades formed out of volunteers from Khasanskii district non-governmental organization of hunters and fishermen and staff of the Visitor Center “Land of leopard” were fighting against fire not giving it a chance to spread further to the forest  of Khasanskii district.

Not long since fire dangerous season, Nerpinskii Rybcoop, the for-profit organization that has recently leased for conservation purposes forest plot in Khasanskii district with WWF support, conducted fire preventive measures on this territory. 18 kilometers of fire breaks were bulldozed to protect forest from fires and counter firing has been conducted.

WWF hopes that all these fire-preventive measures will help us to preserve forest unless the Government starts solving fire-fighting issue.

31.10.08 - Illegaler Abschuß eines Tigers oder Leoparden wird mit 0,5 Millionen Rubel bestraft

Illegale Jagd auf Tierarten, welche auf der Roten Liste erscheinen, wird mit Geldstrafen von 0.5 Millionen Rubel, welches in etwa 11000,- € entspricht, geahndet...

http://www.wwf.ru/resources/news/article/eng/4322

Oktober 2008 – WWF – Leopardenschutz

10.05.08 - Gute Neuigkeiten aus Kedrovaya Pad - 8 Photos von Amur-Leoparden

Gute Neuigkeiten von den Amur-Leoparden. 8 Photos der schönen Großkatzen wurden in  Kedrovaya Pad aufgenommen und zauberten ein Lächeln auf die Gesichter der Naturschützer.

http://tahrcountry.blogspot.com/2008/05/good-news-about-amur-leopard.html

25.04.08 – Infos aus Kedrovaya Pad 

- Fünf Feuer mußten kürzlich in Kedrovaya Pad gelöscht werden 

- ‘FRIENDS OF THE EARTH JAPAN’ (FoEJapan) haben feuerfeste Kleidung und Schuhe für die
   Inspektoren des Parks gespendet. 
 

18.04.08 – WWF – Leopardenschutz

22.04.08 – WWF Russia – Untersuchungen der Tiger-und Leopardentötung in Primorye

                                                gehen weiter

 http://www.wwf.ru/resources/news/article/eng/3862 

Vor genau einem Jahr informierte der WWF die Öffentlichkeit über die Tötung eines jungen weiblichen Leoparden in dem Barsovyi Wildlife Refugium. Sechs Monate früher wurde bereits ein Tiger innerhalb des Khasanskii Distriktes gewildert. Die schuldigen Personen wurden jetzt ermittelt.

16.04.08 – WWF Russia – Attention of Leopards! You are Being Filmed by Secret Cameras!

http://www.wwf.ru/resources/news/article/eng/3842

Eight Far Eastern leopards have left their portraits during camera-trap census this year done by WWF-Russia and Institute for Sustainable Use of Nature Resources near Kedrovaya Pad` nature reserve.

The Far Eastern leopard is the rarest wild cat on the Earth, regarded as “gold reserves” of Russia.

To develop effective measures on its conservation, put them into practice and evaluate gained results we need continuous monitoring over the leopard status. Over the past years scientists have been monitoring the rare cat’s plight using camera traps.

«Tigers and leopards’ coloration is individual. So, having their pictures one can compare and identify specimen, - comments Vladimir Aramilev, head of Institute for Sustainable Use of Nature Resources. – Information we receive from camera traps could be processed with mathematic methods. Thus, comparing specimen ratios shot by cameras for the first time and repeatedly we can estimate the real number of leopards inhabiting a concrete area».

«Confirmed stability of the leopard population living in the territories of federal PAs – Kedrovaya Pad biosphere reserve and Barsovyi wildlife refuge warm our hearts and give hopes, - says Pavel Fomenko, coordinator of the biodiversity conservation program at WWF-Russia, Amur branch. - But at the same time we should understand that this is only a small part of the leopard’s habitat in the southwest Primorye. Good protection and federal status of these PAs with strict regime of nature use allows maintain stability of the predators’ grouping. The rest 70% of leopard’s habitat are in precarious conditions. These are either hunting estates territories with maximum allowable pressure on game species or Borisovskoye Plato wildlife refuge of provincial level with insufficiently strict nature and forest use. The goal of utmost importance put also by the first vice- premier Sergei Ivanov as to create a unified federal PA for the Far Eastern leopard has not yet been achieved in Primorye».