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Protected area and hunting lease support

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Tigris Foundation provided funds for new signs around the nature reserve Kedrovaya Pad (© Tigris Foundation and Phoenix Fund). Putting up new signs around nature reserve Kedrovaya Pad (© Tigris Foundation and Phoenix Fund). Kedrovaya Pad nature reserve is repairing its bulldozer with support provided by ALTA. The bulldozer will dig fire-breaks around the reserve. We also provide fire-fighting equipment and wireless communication equipment to protected areas (© Irina Maslova, Kedrovaya Pad). WCS provided funds to the Nezhinskoe Hunting lease for building tourist cabins. The cabins are rented by hunters, tourists and research staff (© Michiel Hotte / ZSL). Cabin at Nezhinskoe hunting lease (© Michiel Hotte / ZSL). Cabin at Nezhinskoe hunting lease (© Michiel Hotte / ZSL).. Phoenix Fund provided wireless communication equipment to the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Kedrovaya Pad and the wildife refuges Barsoviy and Borisovskoe Plateau. The photo shows a staff member of Kedrovaya Pad (© Phoenix Fund). Phoenix Fund supports anti-poaching activities in the wildlife refuge Borisovskoe Plateau and purchased a jeep for this wildlife refuge. Alertis from Holland has been providing support for the conservation work in Borisovskoe Plateau for a number of years (© Phoenix Fund). Ungulate species like sika deer are an important prey species for the Amur leopard. WCS works with hunting leases in leopard range to increase populations of sika deer and other ungulate species. Increased numbers of ungulates are beneficial not only to leopards, but to local hunters as well. (© WCS) Local hunting lease managers at a model leases working group meeting organised by WCS in the fall of 2007. WCS supports several 'model leases' in Primorsky Krai, providing technical and financial support for implementation of management practices designed to increase ungulate populations (the main prey for leopards and tigers) and improve anti-poaching activities. Working group meetings are an important opportunity for hunting leases managers to exchange experience. (© WCS) The manager of a local hunting lease located in SW Primorye in leopard territory gives a presentation to other managers about anti-poaching activities on his territory at a working meeting organized by WCS. (© WCS) WCS has organized two exchanges for hunting lease managers, wildlife biologists and local officials to travel to the western U.S. to learn about the wildlife management system there. Here Russian participants listen to a presentation by the Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks department. (© WCS) Montana Fish and Wildlife Parks representatives also came from the U.S. to Russia, and visited hunting leases in southwestern Primorsky Krai in order to further exchange experience and success stories. (© WCS) WCS also provides support for annual conferences organized by the Primorsky Krai Union of Hunters and Wildlife Biologists. These conferences allow hunting lease managers and government officials to come together to establish a dialogue about effective wildlife management. (© WCS) Wild boar feeding at Nezhinskoe Hunting lease, an area very important to leopards.