Between January and June 2018, experts monitored the tiger population at the Bastak Nature Reserve, obtaining a total of 398 photos and 27 videos of 141 tiger visits. Camera traps also managed to spot two adult tigers, Zolushka and Bastak, as well as one cub from Zolushka’s second litter.

As in past years, the areas around Skalistaya Mountain, Chernukha Mountain and the headwaters and midstream of the Bastak River, as well as the headwaters of the Ikura and Kirga rivers, are the spots most often visited by Amur tigers. The experts say that tigers practically never go to the eastern part of the nature reserve.