Wild boar hunting banned for three years in Khabarovsk Territory to support tiger food supply
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The governor of the Khabarovsk Territory, Mikhail Degtyarev, issued a decree banning all types of wild boar hunting from June 2023, with the exception of scientific purposes. He announced this on Thursday, March 2, in his Telegram channel. The number of wild boars in the region for 2020-2022 decreased by 75%, from 15.6 thousand to 3.8 thousand. The main cause is African swine fever. Shooting wild boar, the main prey of the Amur tiger, is prohibited for three years, which should be enough to restore the population.
“Tiger numbers are on the rise. In 2015, there were 105 of them in the Khabarovsk Territory, in 2022 – 140-150 individuals. And that is why today we are recording an increase in the frequency of tigers going to settlements in search of food. And this is not safe for our people,” said the head of the region.
The initiative was approved by the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation. Previously Kommersant reported about the case of a tiger attack on hunters, after which the leadership of the Federal State Budgetary Institution “Amur Reserve” (under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation) at a special meeting in the government of the region proposed to ban hunting for a wild boar, following the example of the neighboring Primorsky Territory.
At the same time, Kommersant was told in the Directorate of the Reserve Amur Region that this measure alone may not be enough, and a ban on hunting and a number of other ungulates is desirable.
In the region, with the permission of Rosprirodnadzor, the capture of so-called conflict tigers continues – six individuals in the Bikinsky, Vyazemsky, Khabarovsk, Nanai regions and the Lazo region. According to Mr. Degtyarev, the fourth predator was caught in the village of Arsenyevo. A young emaciated tigress entered the courtyard, grabbed the dog, and then climbed under the veranda of the house. They plan to deliver her to a special center in Primorye for rehabilitation, and then release her into the taiga far from populated areas.
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