MIST - Monitoring anti-poaching patrols
A drop in anti-poaching results doesn’t always mean that anti-poaching patrols have reduced poaching. It is also possible that the anti-poaching team is spending more time at home and less time patrolling! Effective monitoring of anti-poaching patrols requires measuring both patrol efforts and results and comparing the efforts with the results. This is exactly what MIST (Management Information SysTem) has been designed to do. MIST is a GIS (Geographic Information System) that makes it possible to compare standardized indicators for anti-poaching effectiveness between teams, conservation sites and time periods and to view patrol efforts and results on conservation site maps.
Michiel Hötte of Tigris Foundation is presently implementing MIST in protected areas in the Russian Far East in co-operation with ALTA-partners WCS and Phoenix Fund.
Amur leopard re-introduction plan
The plan for re-introduction of Amur leopards has been finalised. The document was discussed and approved by local and international experts during an Amur leopard and tiger conference in Vladivostok in March 2010. The plan will now be send to the responsible Moscow authorities for approval.
The document does not only describe the plan for re-introduction. It summarises everything that is presently known about Amur leopards in the wild and in captivity.
Download the Amur leopard re-introduction plan (5 MB).
Heavy snowfall and poaching incident
ALTA Amur Leopard Conservation website
Please visit the new website www.amur-leopard.org .
Amur leopard video.
Golden Ark Award for Michiel Hötte of Tigris Foundation
Michiel Hötte, founder of Tigris Foundation, received a prestigious Golden Ark Award on Friday 14 March 2008 in Burgers Zoo in Arhem in the Netherlands for his achievements as an Amur leopard conservationist. Burgers Zoo in Arnhem has made the funds for the three awards of Euro 50,000 available. Tigris Foundation will use the award money for the development of firebreaks around the leopard reserve Kedrovaya Pad. Poaching and forest fires are the two main threats to the survival of the remaining 30 Amur leopards.
- press release here, photo here
2005 Amur Tiger Count Report (the most recent full range count) - here
Chinese wildlife markets threaten Russian wildlife
Vladivostok – 480 bear paws, a tiger skin and tiger skeleton were confiscated from Chinese nationals during an attempt to illegally cross the border from Russia into China. Russian bear and other wildlife populations are depleted to satisfy demand in China. Press Release (4 September 2007)
- Press Release China's stock piles of illegal tiger products should be destroyed (27 July 2007)
- Photo (stockpiled tigers at Chinese tiger farm)
- You can help! View the video - and take action for tigers - at www.EndTigerTrade.org
- Large tiger mozaik unveiled at CITES conference (film - Flash Animation)
- Read more about the "International Tiger Coalition" and its campaign against tiger trade
Organise an Amur leopard event!
Do you plan to embark on a long sailing trip? Put the Amur leopard emblem on your sails! Will you participate in a marathon? Put the emblem on your shirt! Will you climb a high mountain? Put a flag with the emblem on the mountain top!
We invite you to organise an Amur leopard activity and send us photographs and footage of the event. Any activity is possible, even a simple interview with an Amur leopard fan explaining why this animal is special! We will use your photos and footage for publication in local Russian newspapers and for broadcasts on local Russian television. Seeing that people in far-away places care about the Amur leopard will make a big impression on Russian villagers in the leopard’s range. It will make them realise that their leopard is worth protecting.
It is essential that the ‘Amur leopard emblem’ is shown prominently on the footage and photographs of your event.
Download the Amur Leopard Conservation Emblem: PDF , GIF
Please contact Michiel Hötte for further information.
Last update 23 July 2010 
