Serpukhov, Moscow Region (December 2002). As experience shows, it is not easy to coax a bison sound bites for a radio report. The animals make no noise. However, not only to journalists, the scientists of the bison reintroduction center in Priokski Nature Reserve had its problems a few years ago, the researchers had for each of the giant wild cattle come up with a unique name and slowly walked to the employees of the reserve out of ideas.
The animals from the Russian nature reserve should all get a name with M at the beginning. This was an agreement by the international bison experts. For the report I had then equal to the whole family with the Oka taken. A trip with consequences, as it turned out later. End of 2007 the Russian state television broadcast a documentary from the Priokski Reserve - several times in the picture, a young lady names bison Magdalene.
The return of the buffalo
From Karsten Packeiser, Moscow. They are to difficult to 1,200 pounds, look like giant ruffled cattle mooing, but not all grunt but if from time to time. The five bison, which are in a gate of the breeding center in the Russian Priokskij Nature Reserve, belong to one species, the extinction was so close that they really do not more likely to give. Now conservationists are planning and environmental authorities, meant that a strong population of 1,000 animals in the forests of central Russia.
Natalya Treboganowa, head of the bison-breeding center shall, after a couple of hay bales, which devour their charges greedy. During her studies she did an internship in the park and was so fascinated by the bison, that she stayed. She knows her animals. "Bison mate never before the eyes of the other herd animals," she says of the romantic love life of ungulates, "they go for two deep in the forest to be disturbed."
The traditional wild cattle in the gate for new items, from Swiss zoos of Bern and Winterthur have been brought to Russia are opposed to their first introduction into the wild. In the far corner of this huge enclosure, they are as close as possible to the feeding troughs. A noisy group of children can be explained in front of the enclosure, the differences between the European bison and American bison.
come every day, especially on summer weekends, rolled up to thirty fully loaded buses from Moscow and other cities around the park. Then the visitors jostling in the little souvenir shop where there are bison and bison-Postcards T-Shirts for sale. Guests at the breeding center to bring some money into the empty Funds of the Priokskij Nature Reserve, home to only 50 square kilometers, about 50 mammal and 130 bird species. The notorious problems of money from the state-forgotten Russian national parks and protected areas can not solve a couple of souvenirs sold.
It played the Bison center 100 miles south of Moscow, a key role in saving the species. Towards the end of World War II seemed their fate already sealed. The last ones in the wild have been slaughtered, as the Russian empire fell into civil war and chaos, no one voiced concern about animal welfare. In various dispersed throughout the world zoos at that time lived twelve reproductive capacity Animals.
once again there are about 3,000 specimens in zoos and wildlife parks all over the world and in some national parks. "Increase in the zoos of Europe, the bison so that Europeans often do not know now what to do with them," says Treboganowa. In Priokskij Nature Reserve, it prepares the animals slowly on life in the wild. Sample copies are kept her for breeding, which was not always without problems.
ended the first reintroduction attempts in Soviet times in a fiasco. First, the Russian zoologist put their bison in a national park in the Ukrainian steppe, there were the animals to eat anything and dead. Then concentrated the reintroduction program were transported to the Caucasus, and bison from the breeding center after Ossetia and Chechnya. Shortly after that began in the early 90s for the Caucasus region, a time of war and chaos. Information on whether animals have survived, there is not. "We believe that all died," says Treboganowa.
pull in the central Russian administrative regions Orel, Bryansk and Kaluga authorities, Russian environmentalists and the WWF together. Here, new protected areas established and released the first animals from the breeding center to freedom.
The bison experts in Priokskij National Park hope that the animals of this Times are better prepared for life without human help. The first bison in the region did have a real desire to develop civilization. "They came literally in the cow-sheds of the collective farms run," says Natalya Treboganowa. Ultimately, this was not surprising, as the bison were finally known for generations only a life in captivity.
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