State Natural Reserve “Bastak” Siberian Tigers, avtonomnaya oblast’, Russia
The history of the Bastak reserve as a specially protected natural area begins in 1981 when the local government in the eastern Obluchensky district of the Jewish Autonomous Region (EAO), which was part of the Khabarovsk Territory, organized the Bastak Botanical Reserve with an area of 45.7 thousand hectares of forest land.
By the decision of the Khabarovsk Krai Executive Committee, the reserve received this status without limitation of the validity period. A year later, by decision of the Executive Committee of the Khabarovsk Territory Council of People’s Deputies of September 24, 82, No. 597, a new integrated hunting reserve of the regional significance Bastak was established on an area of 42,000 hectares. The name of the reserve was received from the river r. Bastak. The zakaznik’s tasks included the protection and reproduction of valuable commercial species of animals and birds.
Work on the creation of the reserve began in 1993. At the invitation of the administration of the EAO, the expedition of the state enterprise Nature of Russia, led by Z.U. Tankacheeva. The purpose of the expedition was to conduct a biologic-economic survey and prepare a scientific justification for the need to create a specially protected natural area (SPNA) of the highest rank in the region. Based on the work done by the Nature of Russia, in 1994 the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Russian Federation developed and approved the Bastak State Nature Reserve Project in the Jewish Autonomous Region with a total area of 42,000 hectares.
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