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Compensation of livestock kills

You can read about compensating livestock owners for their animals here.

 

Sika deer at deer farm. The antler velvet is harvested and exported to China for use in traditional medicines (© Phoenix Fund). . The deer are often killed near a fence (© Phoenix Fund). Anti-poaching team member inspects a deer killed at a deer farm. Reported kills are always inspected within 24 hours. Phoenix Fund provides the compensation payments to the farm owners. The total value of the deer is compensated (© Phoenix Fund). Bite wounds can often be found near the throat or in the neck (© Phoenix Fund). Female leopards with cubs often kill deer at deer farms. Not only domestic deer are killed. We have paid compensations for sheep, dogs and even rabbits that were killed by leopards. Tigers have killed domestic deer, horses, dogs and cows (© Phoenix Fund). Tigers and leopards usually climb fences at deer farms at a convenient spot. Here a leopard made use of a tree to get across the fence (© Phoenix Fund). Leopard hair found on the tree that is shown in the previous photo (© Phoenix Fund). Bite in the neck (© Phoenix Fund). Leopards usually start eating from the hind quarters (© Phoenix Fund). A few leopard hairs show where the animal climbed the fence (© Phoenix Fund). Deer at the Gamov deer farm. Amur leopards usually avoid open terrain, but they do kill deer in open terrain on deer farms (© Phoenix Fund). Leopards usually start eating at the hind quarters (© Phoenix Fund). Fences make it easier to kill deer at deer farms (© Phoenix Fund). Claw marks show where a leopard climbed a fence (© Phoenix Fund). We do not try to scare leopards away from their kills. Leopards do not pose a threat to humans, and deer at deer farms form a very welcome additional food source for this critically endangered cat. When a tigers kills very frequently at a farm, the anti-poaching will try to scare it with gun shots. This has not proven very effective (© Phoenix Fund). Tiger track near a deer kill on a deer farm. We compensate both kills made by tigers and leopards (© Phoenix Fund). . Pointing out a leopard track near a fence. Signs of the big cats that can be found include tracks, hairs, scats, scratch markings on trees and fence posts and bite and scratch marks on the livestock kill (© Phoenix Fund). Leopard track in snow (© Phoenix Fund). . Leopards often return several times to eat from a kill and this can make them easy targets for farm staff that want to prevent livestock kills. This is why it is important to fully compensate the damage (© Phoenix Fund). The anti-poaching teams records all locations of poaching events and livestock kills (© Phoenix Fund). The colours of sika deer vary with the seasons. They have a greyish brown colour in winter, but they have spots and a somewhat orange appearance in summer. Leopard bite marks on sika deer.