The authorities of Buryatia will count the Red Book Pallas’ cats on their territory
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The Ministry of Natural Resources of Buryatia intends to monitor the Pallas’ cat population in the republic. Job will be completed together with the environmental foundation “Compass”. An agreement on cooperation was signed with him the day before, aimed at systematically supporting environmental initiatives, as well as preserving flora and fauna.
“Compass, together with the Ministry of Natural Resources, experts from the Buryat State University and scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences, will restore the habitats of the Pallas’s cat and protect its population. The plans include monitoring, video recording, recording and microchipping of animals, analysis of information on their numbers in reserves and distribution in the territory. The main results of the study should be the formation of a methodology for recording the number of animals and the development of proposals for the conservation of the Pallas’s cat,” the report clarifies.
The Ministry currently does not have accurate data on the number of Pallas’s cat, noting that “the animal, listed in the Red Book of the Russian Federation, lives in some areas of Buryatia, but is very rare.”
Manul is a wild cat with a massive body and long thick fur. Its ancestors were contemporaries of saber-toothed tigers and survived to our times without undergoing any special evolutionary changes. The animal leads an extremely secretive lifestyle and avoids any contact with humans. In Russia, it lives in the Republics of Altai, Tyva and Buryatia and the Trans-Baikal Territory, sometimes found in the Republic of Khakassia, the Krasnoyarsk Territory and the Irkutsk Region.
Compass is the first national fund for the support and development of environmental initiatives, which was created in June 2022. The fund’s board of trustees includes the chairman of the Committee on Ecology, Natural Resources and Environment of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Dmitry Kobylkin, the head of the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resources Svetlana Radionova, TV presenter, deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Timofey Bazhenov, and employees of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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