The Siberian tiger is a very precious wild protected animal in China, and its wild individuals mainly live in the Siberian Tiger and Leopard National Park. Due to historical reasons, the number of wild Siberian tigers in China is very rare, and the number of Siberian tigers in The Siberian Tiger and Leopard National Park was only 27 at the beginning of the pilot in 2017.
After years of development, according to the latest data, the number of wild Siberian tigers in the Siberian Tiger and Leopard National Park has increased to 50, of which 10 are young tigers, which are newly bred.
This is a gratifying and congratulatory thing, indicating that the protection of Siberian tigers in China is being carried out in an orderly manner.
On October 12, 2021, the first batch of national parks were officially established, and the list included the Northeast Tiger and Leopard National Park, Sanjiangyuan National Park, and Giant Panda National Park.
According to the information of the Northeast Tiger and Leopard National Park Administration, the Northeast tiger and leopard have spread to the west to the Jiaohe and Shulan areas of Jilin And the north to the Mijiang Raohe River.
In fact, over the years, we can intuitively feel that the environment is really getting better, the number of Siberian tigers has really increased, the best example is the occasional tiger downhill sightings, such as the famous "Wandashan No. 1" has attracted national attention on the Internet.
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Many people blame the descent of Siberian tigers on the fact that their wild prey resources are not abundant enough, so they risk entering villages to hunt livestock.
In fact, on the contrary, in the habitat of the Siberian tiger, there is not only no shortage of prey, but also the number of ungulates is very rich, and their number is too small, only 50, far from reaching the saturation of the environment, so the lack of wild prey is untenable.
In fact, with the pilot of the Siberian Tiger and Leopard National Park, the habitat environment of China's Siberian tiger has developed in a good way, and the ungulates that have been released in batches have also formed a healthy wild population.
Worldwide, people have lost 95% of the wild tiger population, and under this premise, China's Siberian tiger population is expanding.
In 2013, experts found breeding families of Siberian tigers in Dongning City, Heilongjiang Province, and in the years that followed, more tiger breeding families were found, indicating that the number of Siberian tigers in China is gradually recovering. However, due to the reproductive ability of the tigers themselves, and the base is too small, it is difficult for them to recover to a higher level in a short period of time.
After so many years of ecological construction, the living environment of China's Siberian tiger has long been different, especially the formal establishment of the Siberian Tiger and Leopard National Park, indicating that the protection of The Siberian tiger has entered a new era.
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The Siberian tiger, also known as the Siberian tiger, is the largest tiger in the world and one of the largest wild cats in existence.
In fact, instead of calling it a Siberian tiger, it is better to call it a Siberian tiger, because there is no tiger in most of Siberia, and its distribution in Russia is limited to Primorsky Krai, and the Siberian tiger is easy to give people a feeling that the whole of Siberia has.
Although the number of wild Siberian tigers in China is rare at present, but historically it is not the case, at the end of the 19th century, the number of Siberian tigers in China was conservatively estimated to be 2,000, while at that time, Russia, due to a large number of hunting, the number was only about 800.
The large reduction of China's Siberian tigers was after the 1950s, due to the outbreak of serious tiger infestations in many parts of the country, so tigers were treated as "pests" and were hunted on a large scale.
Although the main target at that time was the South China tiger, the Siberian tiger was also a fierce tiger, and naturally could not be spared. Coupled with habitat destruction, the number of Siberian tigers in China has decreased rapidly. By 1977, when the country banned the hunting of Siberian tigers, their numbers had become very rare.
In fact, in addition to being hunted and killed by people, there are also a considerable number of Siberian tigers, through the ecological corridor to Russia, which is why Russia in the first half of the 20th century also desperately hunted tigers, but its number can be restored in a short period of time, because the arrival of China's Siberian tigers, for them is a great supplement.
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In fact, looking at the population development trend of the entire Siberian tiger, it can be roughly divided into three stages, corresponding to three large-scale migration waves.
The first wave of migration occurred in the first half of the 20th century, when Russia fled to our country. Before the 20th century, the number of Siberian tigers in Russia was not as large as in China, but it was still quite impressive. But since the end of the 19th century, Russia has taken the lead in hunting Siberian tigers, causing their numbers to decline sharply.
Almost every year, 150 Siberian tigers are legally hunted, and it was not until the 20th century that the situation changed, but 50 Siberian tigers are still killed every year. By the 1930s, a Russian team estimated that there were fewer than 30 wild tigers in the country. In addition to those arrested and killed, a large number of them fled to our country for refuge.
The second wave of migration occurred in the second half of the 20th century, when we fled to Russia. 1947 was a turning point in the fate of the Russian Siberian tiger, because Russia set the Siberian tiger as a national key protected animal and prohibited its killing. In the 1950s, when the fate of China's Siberian tigers turned, people cut down forests and killed wild animals in large quantities, resulting in intensified conflicts between humans and animals.
As a large predator, the tiger is the greatest threat to humans, and naturally becomes the focus of contradictions and conflicts, and has been hunted on a large scale. It was not until 1977 that China announced a ban on the hunting of Siberian tigers, during which a large number of Siberian tigers were driven to Russia.
The third wave of migration of Siberian tigers is quietly taking place, gradually spreading from Russia to China. The distribution of the Siberian tiger in Russia is limited, and it only exists in the southeast corner, and its population has become nearly saturated.
Although the Siberian tiger is the most hardy tiger, but the inland areas of Siberia, perennial covered by thick snow, not suitable for tiger survival, relatively speaking, China's vast forest sea snow field, is the home of the Siberian tiger.
On the other hand, in recent years, China has vigorously protected the Siberian tiger, in order to attract the Russian Siberian tiger, it can be said that it has gone to great lengths, not only to set up a protected area for environmental construction, but also to release ungulates such as sika deer in batches, so that it can form a healthy wild population for the Siberian tiger to prey on.
If the number of wild Siberian tigers in China wants to recover quickly, it is not possible to rely on 50 individuals to breed, and it is a shortcut to attract Russian tigers.
In fact, it is also true that the Russian tiger is gradually spreading to our side, the best example is an incident that happened in January 2019, a female Siberian tiger with her three cubs, from Russia thousands of miles away to our country, with the arrival of the female tiger, the significance is very significant, it has higher environmental requirements, but also more stable than the "transit male tiger".
It is believed that with the gradual emergence of ecological construction and animal protection results, more and more Siberian tigers will come in transit.
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