Tigers between empires : the improbable return of great cats to the forests of Russia and China / Jonathan C. Slaght.
"The thrilling saga of the great Amur tiger and the scientists who risked their lives to save it. The forests of northeast Asia are home to a marvelous range of animals--fish owls and brown bears, musk deer and moose, wolves and raccoon dogs, leopards and tigers. But by the final years of the Cold War, only a few hundred tigers stepped quietly through the snow of the Amur River basin. Soon, the Soviet Union fell, bringing catastrophe; without the careful oversight of a central authority, poaching and logging took a fast, astonishing toll on an already vulnerable species. Just as these changes arrived, scientists came together to found the Siberian Tiger Project. Led by Dale Miquelle, a moose researcher, and Zhenya Smirnov, a mouse biologist, the team captured and released more than 114 tigers over three decades. They witnessed mating rituals and fights, hunting and feeding, the ceding and taking of territory, the creation of families. Within these pages, characters--both feline and human--come fully alive as we travel with them through the quiet and changing forests of Amur. We travel across time, too, as the fate of the species has been shaped by the history and politics of empires--such as the Qing dynasty's Willow Palisade, which once slowed human settlement, or the later introduction of roads through Russian reserves. The Siberian Tiger Project became the longest-running tiger research initiative; its work continues to guide conservationists today. Jonathan C. Slaght's Tigers Between Empires is the thrilling saga of the great Amur tiger and the scientists who came together, across the world, to save it." -- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780374610982
- ISBN: 0374610983
- Physical Description: xxii, 484 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : ilustrations (color), maps ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2025]
- Copyright: ©2025
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-465) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Maps -- List of key people and tigers -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Part One: 1989-1993. The green fire -- The cold and ice of Terney -- A moose biologist in tiger country -- Dale and Viktor track a tiger -- A tigress named Olga -- Thinking like a tiger -- In a forest of ancient pines -- Dale, Igor, and the Tunsha bear -- Olga and her mother by the sea -- Maurice gets his tiger -- Natasha of the Ivanga -- The slow burn of a capture season -- Mariya Ivanovna and her cubs -- Tiny tracks in the snow -- In Russia, tigers fly coach -- Part Two: 1994-2005. The Kolumbe man-eater -- Olga versus the metal kite -- New arrivals from Wyoming -- Katya the fearless -- Murder, snakes, and the Meare Heath bow -- Counting all the tigers in the east -- Hope for the tigers of Dongbei -- A secret known only in the forest -- Olga, the oldest tiger in the world -- Part Three: 2010-2024. Cracks in collaboration -- The horse hunter of Orlovka -- The tragedy of Galina -- Kristina and the bear hunter -- The orphan from Changbai -- Zolushka in captivity -- A strange convoy to Birobidzhan -- The last capture -- Tiger conservation across borders.
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