The past winter was extremely difficult due to the lack of basic fattening feed for ungulates. But thanks to the help of the Siberian Tiger Centre and the Primorye Department for Oversight of Hunting, mass mortality of the animals was avoided.

The decreased mortality among wild ungulates during the lack of fodder and abundance of snow is one of the strategic tasks in preserving the population of hunting animals in general and maintaining the basic food supply of large felines in Russia’s Far East, the Amur Tiger and the Far Eastern Leopard.

Over the past winter, the centre organised a feeding campaign for boars in certain model hunting communities and regional nature reserves that work to preserve hunting resources. In addition to feeding, the animals were vaccinated. A total of 20 kg of vaccines were given to animals, which prevented mass infection and deaths. In the Tigrovoye model hunting community alone, as many as 25 feeding points were organised.  Up to 40 animals visited them daily.

The growing population of boars in the Primorye Territory is a necessary prerequisite for the preservation of rare felines.