In 2015, the Amur Tiger Centre plans to purchase over 1,000 camera traps that will help create a new database on the population of tigers, monitor their movements and improve protection of their habitat.

Camera traps will be installed in nature reserves in the Primorye and Khabarovsk territories, as well as along the Russian border with China. Modern trail cameras ensure high-quality photos and videos, including at nighttime.

Animals take a heightened interest in “forest traps.” Not long ago a tigress called Ilona mauled a camera trap in the Khingan Nature Reserve in the Amur region.

According to nature reserve staff, Ilona tore the camera off a tree and destroyed it with her fangs. This is the first camera attack of this kind. Previously, the wild cat was repeatedly captured by the camera lens, and even willingly posed, but never attacked cameras. The camera's memory card with the images of the tigress could not be found. Ilona may have swallowed it or it may have been lost in the snow.