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Anti-poaching

You can read about poaching and how we prevent it here.

 

Our main anti-poaching team with anti-poaching dog Nadezda ('Hope') and her puppies (© Phoenix Fund). Poacher's fishing traps (© Phoenix Fund). Checking a logging truck (© Phoenix Fund). Deer shot by a poacher and left to collect later (© Tigris Foundation). Young leopard shot by a poacher January 2004 (© Inspection Tiger). Young leopard shot by a poacher January 2004 (© Inspection Tiger). a snare set for an ungulate can also kill a leopards or tiger (© Phoenix Fund).. On patrol together with border guards. The team also sometimes organises joint patrols with protected area staff and police officers (© Phoenix Fund). Confiscated bear paws - bear cubs and body parts are illegally exported to China where bear parts are used in traditional medicines (© Phoenix Fund). Confiscated dried frogs - oil is extracted from these frogs for use in traditional medicines in China. The frogs are killed by pouring poison in a stream. Not only frogs, but also fish and all other fauna in the stream is killed as a result (© Tigris Foundation). Confiscated wildlife meat and rifles (© Phoenix Fund). Confiscated leopard skin and rifles (© Phoenix Fund). Confiscated tiger skin and enormous leg-hold trap (© Phoenix Fund). Confiscated tiger skins (© Phoenix Fund). Anti-poaching ranger checking documents (© Phoenix Fund). Confiscated rifles (© Phoenix Fund). Confiscated boar meat, cartridges and rifles (© Phoenix Fund). Confiscated leopard skins (2000) (© Inspection Tiger). Our anti-poaching team uses jeeps, motorbikes, horses and a snow mobile for transport (© Phoenix Fund). On horseback (© Phoenix Fund). Anti-poaching ranger on horseback (© Phoenix Fund). Looking at a map (© Phoenix Fund). Snares removed from the forests (© Phoenix Fund). The team's snow mobile (© Phoenix Fund). Poached salmon (© Phoenix Fund). Cofiscated fishing net (© Phoenix Fund). Poacher's fishing nets (© Phoenix Fund). The Khasan anti-poaching team with a new jeep that was purchasd with support from IFAW Russia Tiger track on the road. Leopard track. On a foot patrol. An injured white-tailed sea eagle that was rescued, treated and released. On patrol. Confiscated deer meat. The border fence that runs at a distance of 8-12 km along the Chinese border. It was built in the 1970s to keep Russian citizens in Russia, and not to keep Chinese nationals out. Leopards and tigers manage to climb across the fence and there are individuals whose territories include habitat on both sides of the border. On foot patrol. Latest development: team member learns to fly an ultra-light plane ( paraplane). The team expects that patrols from the air with inspectors on motorbikes on the ground will be a perfect method for locating and apprehending poachers! (© Zhena Stoma and Phoenix Fund) Preparing a paraplane flight. Preparing a paraplane flight. Take-off! Take-off! In the air! Tiger mortally wounded by snare - © Inspection Tiger Tiger Autopsy - © Lazo Reserve/Galina Salkina Tiger used a dog food - © Udege Legend National Park Tiger used as dog food - © Udege Legend National Park Inspection Tiger removing the body of a dead tiger - © WCS Tiger Skeleton - © WildAid/Steve Galster Blood in snow from a poached deer - © Linda Kerley/ZSL/LSNR