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Amur
by Blotch
Traditional Artist
17 years ago
This is the Amur Tiger card for the Endangered Ark card deck project.
Siberian (aka Amur/Manchurian/Ussuri) tigers are a rare, critically endangered subspecies of tigers, found only in the Amur region of the far east. Due to illegal deforestation and poaching, the Siberian tiger was at extreme risk of elimination by the 1980s, with fewer than 250 tigers remaining in the wild. Luckily though, due to the effort of the Siberian Tiger Project, founded in 1992, the big cats have seen a steady recovery. The project focused on conservation, working with local governments to set up anti-poaching patrols, reducing clearcut logging and slowing the depletion of the tiger's habitat.
Today, there are an estimated 400 to 500 Siberian tigers in the wild, and their population seems stable. While there is a very successful captive breeding program, there is little to zero chance of reintroducing captive bred tigers back into the wild. This makes it imperative to protect their natural habitat if Siberian tigers are to continue to exist outside of zoos and private collections.
Siberian (aka Amur/Manchurian/Ussuri) tigers are a rare, critically endangered subspecies of tigers, found only in the Amur region of the far east. Due to illegal deforestation and poaching, the Siberian tiger was at extreme risk of elimination by the 1980s, with fewer than 250 tigers remaining in the wild. Luckily though, due to the effort of the Siberian Tiger Project, founded in 1992, the big cats have seen a steady recovery. The project focused on conservation, working with local governments to set up anti-poaching patrols, reducing clearcut logging and slowing the depletion of the tiger's habitat.
Today, there are an estimated 400 to 500 Siberian tigers in the wild, and their population seems stable. While there is a very successful captive breeding program, there is little to zero chance of reintroducing captive bred tigers back into the wild. This makes it imperative to protect their natural habitat if Siberian tigers are to continue to exist outside of zoos and private collections.
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Everything is absolutely amazing and perfect! :D
You're an amazing artist.
It's sad that there aren't many of these guys around. Keep up the awesome work!
Here's a link to the other subspecies of tigers and their estimated populations.
Hopefully, as people see the beauty and majesty of these animals through your artwork and others in the Endangered Ark, they'll take action to protect these things they love. And in so doing, they'll also protect the hundreds of other, less charismatic species that share the same habitat and ecosystem.
Beautiful work, Blotch, as always!
@.@
Instant FAV! ^_^
and great work with the value on the fur!
The colors, details and depth - All brilliantly well drawn and painted!
Instant fave on practically first sight. :)
I love the colors, and you put such detail into his face.
Astonishing job.
absolutely wonderful work!
- Desert Fox
:: sighs and continues to stare ::
MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEH
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOVEEEEE IT!!! xD
SOOOOOOOOOO GEEEEEEUUUUUUUDDDDDDDD !!!!!! *wags till i fly around the world 2 times*
now that thats been said,
i really like this. but im sure that you dont need people to tell you how awesome you are.
We need a crotch shot, something to...you know...give us a reason to save them
(i love the tigers )
i hope the sibes make a good comeback.soooo many endangered species...
> Luckily though, due to the effort of the Siberian Tiger Project, founded in 1992, the big cats have seen a steady recovery.
'ware, however, the usual (well-meaning) propaganda intending to hook in Westerners to believe that /they/ have personally made /the/ difference. In reality, most of the hard work had already been done by the Soviet authorities and most of the illegal deforestation and poaching noted came /after/ the fall of the Soviet Union - none of which reduced the tiger population to anything like as low as they had been before the protected areas were first implemented.
Still good work by Dale & co. at the WCS despite the intentionally vague underlying story leading to inevitable revisionism, however, but par for the course (compare with snowies where the "first pic taken in the wild" was meant to have been in the 1970s - Schaller, National Geographic, etc. Strange that they'd failed to notice the pics in Russian text books from 30-40 years before sitting in their own national libraries :)
Anyhow; best wishes & keep up the good work as ever. ^^
d./uncia
Really great job!
damn poachers! i love tigers, they are beautiful creatures...
I'm really quite jealous
There were only several tens tigers in 1947 year when Soviet govenment had forbidden the huntimg for them. As it was already mentioned Tiger population was growing until USSR collapsed and with the country collapsed control for forestry and poachers.
All these projects in reallity can only pay compencations for cows been eaten by tigers. After disafforestation Tigers lose their hunting territories and meet with men with their dogs and cattle. Not so hard to predict result of such contacts. I want to know what some international organiasation can do with Russian or Chenese businessman or correctly poacher who would cut down the whole Taiga and sell all tigers to China for "medicine" if he could when local authorities can not or don't want to do anything about.
Vastly different style, but well done.