An international research and practical conference, “The Amur Tiger: Population, Problems and Protection Prospects,” will be held in Vladivostok on13-15 December. The conference will also include a symposium on “Rehabilitation and Reintroduction of the Far Eastern Leopard Population.”

At the conference, Russian and foreign experts will review the five-year work on “The Strategy for the Conservation of the Amur Tiger in the Russian Federation,” which the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources established in July 2010 until 2020. The scientists will also discuss the results of an Amur tiger census held in Russia in 2015.

“At the Tiger Summit in St Petersburg in 2010, the Russian government set an objective to preserve and increase the Amur tiger population. Since then, a series of environmental protection measures have been in place. For example, harvesting the Korean cedar tree was banned. This and other measures helped maintain the stability of the tiger population, and the winter census showed the dynamics of the population,” said Professor Yury Zhuravlev, of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and director of the Biology and Soil Institute of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and head of the conference organising committee.

Reports on monitoring the population of the planet’s rare wild cats, including their infectious diseases, will also be presented at the conference.