Save the Amur Tiger Project

Аннотация к проекту учителя  Некрасовой Т.М.

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Save the Amur Tiger Project

Panthera tigris altaica- Wonder №1

Komsomolsk-na-Amure  Sch.1

The teacher -  Nekrasova T.M.  
 
 

Slide2. To the 70-th anniversary of  Khabarovsk Krai 7 Wonders             28/11/2008

The Amur tiger tops the list of  the Seven Wonders of Khabarovsk territory.  The Amur tiger  became one of the seven wonders. 

I’ll read the results of voting     

1. THE AMUR TIGER (3880 votes)
2. DUSSE ALIN PLATO (1755 votes)
3. SHANTAR ISLANDS (1630 votes)
4. THE LAKE AMUT (1561 votes)
5. THE BRIDGE OVER THE AMUR RIVER (1112 votes)
6. LOTUS-THE FLOWER (1044 votes)
7. PETROGLYPHS OF SICACHI ALIAN (962 votes)

 

Slide 3. If  you want to know …

• What  the tigers’ habitat is
• If it can  swim
• If  people can be friends with tigers
• What it looks like
• Which species do not exist….
• If people can save the tigers

                                                  and much more about tigers……..

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Slide 4.                          To Live or not to Live?

Look at this table. Some species do not exist now 1)

 
 

• 2)So among the  8 species ( I mean 3))only 5 are alive
• 1)Bali Tiger, Yava Tiger and Turan do not exist any more

                                                               Let’s think about it together… 

Slide 5. It’s a well known fact that  the Amur Tiger is

• The largest of the five tiger species left roaming the planet.
• It is a rare predator threatened with extinction.
• It is the biggest one of the most furious cats.
• It’s an animal included into the Russian Federation Red Lists of Threatened Species.
• It is the most beautiful alive animal living in the taiga of the Russian Far East.

 

Slide 6. Tigers need a big area to live – more than 600 km at last.

  Tigers are very conservative. They often use the same tracks. 

Slide 7. Reproduction of the Amure Tiger

Do you know that  Kids are helpless. The kid’s weight is less than a kilo, but it grows quickly. It starts eating meat at two-months old, but the tigress gives it milk  for about half a year.

 It’s interesting that the tiger does not take any participation in education of children.  

Slide 8. Do white tigers live in the Far East?

• It’s well known that white tigers live in the Far East as well as in India and China.
• It’s a rare specie – a real wonder of nature.
• White tigers have brown stripes and crystal blue eyes, and some species in captivity have no stripes at all.

 

Slide 9. What does the tiger look like? Read for yourself, please. 

Slide 10. Now we know the Size and Weight of a tiger.

• Body length with head and with tail- 3 meters (9.8 feet).
• A newborn cub’s weight is 1kg (2 pounds)
• 3 months cub - 10 kg (22 pounds).
• 3 years–old cub’s weight -over 100 kg (220 pounds).

 
 

Slide 11. Do you know that…

                       the size of a tiger is judged by its step /It varies from 70 to 80 sm/ 

 

Slide 12. Pads and Claws 

• Soft pads allow tigers to sneak silently upon its prey
• Long (up to 10 cm ) sharp claws serve to capture the pray.

 

Slide 13. Where does  the tiger live? 

• Once Amur tigers lived from Lake Baikal to northern China. Now, some animals live along the Amur River in the national parks of the Far East of Russia.
• The tiger inhabits the Sikhote-Alin mountain chain
• The Amur tiger habitat area makes up 123,000 km2.

 

The typical for the Amur tiger habitat is a mixed cedar-broad-leaved forest,

Slide 14. Can the tiger swim?

Unlike domestic animals tigers like to swim

 

Slide 15. What do they eat?

• The basic food is a wild boar and a roe deer or a spotted deer, Siberian stag and even dogs.
• Tigers, as well as other cats, do not chew the meat, but divide it into pieces with the help of molars and then swallow.

 

Slide 16. How long do tigers live…..

Tigers  can live in wild more than 26 years, zoos.

   They will survive if they are not captured for their skin, bones, claws….  

Slide 17.Myths of “Magical Drugs” 

• Tigers have always been popular in myths,
• Tibetan Medicine used almost every part of their body - bones, teeth, lips, claws, mustaches to produce 'magical drugs'. For centuries tigers have been hunted and there are nо tigers left in China now.

 

Slide 18. Fighting for survival

2)It is destruction of tiger habitat,

1) I’ll name the factors that today threaten the survival of the tiger in the wild. 

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  We should know that…. 

• In Russia's Red Book of Endangered Species, the Amur tiger is attributed to Category I as a rare, decreasing in numbers subspecies, which is placed under the threat of extinction.
• Hunting for tigers is prohibited since 1947.

 

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  Save Tiger Proggrams

• Nowadays, lots of green organizations decided to cooperate. They are raising money, fighting poaching, catching cubs for zoos and parks. The results are promising - many zoos around the world have beautiful Аmur Tigers

Slide 21. Local Projects

• the Project of Protection of the Amur Tiger and its Habitats. The project organized and supported anti-poaching activities.
• field team called «Tiger»
• teams in the Lazo and Sikhote-Alin Zapovedniks, 1). There are  programs to protect this rare and endangered wild animals :

 

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We hope that we contributed to your knowledge about tigers and your understanding of the problem