Program

Workshop is dedicated to the memory of Valentin S. Pazhetnov (1936-2021), who developed a system for returning orphaned cubs to nature

October 12-15, 2021,
A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, RAS, Moscow, 33, Leninsky prospect

10-00 – 10-45

  • Amirkhanov Amirkhan Magomedovich
    (Rosprirodnadzor, Russia)
  • Akulova Svetlana Vladimirovna
    (Moscow Zoo, director, Russia)
  • Bersenev Anton Evgenievich
    (ANO “Wildlife Conservation Society”, director, Russia)
  • Aramilev Sergey Vladimirovich
    (ANO “Amur Tiger”, director, Russia)
  • Breitenmoser Urs
    (Cat Specialist Group IUCN, co-chair, Switzerland)
  • Liu Chunyan
    (Heilongjiang Academy of Sciences, President, China)
  • Shadrikov Valery Aleksandrovich
    (Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia)

10-45 – 11-00

  • Viatcheslav V. Rozhnov
    Introduction: issues are planned to be highlighted at the Workshop.

11-00 – 11-30

  • Sergey V. Pazhetnov, Lyudmila K. Danilova, Ekaterina S. Pazhetnova.
    Valentin Sergeevich Pazhetnov (1936 – 2021) and his work on the rehabilitation of brown bear orphaned bears (Ursus arctos, Linnaeus, 1758).

11-30 – 11-50

  • Rodrigo Serra, Maria José Pérez, Ramón Pérez de Ayala, Maria Teresa Rios, António Rivas, Íñigo Sánchez, Francisco Villaespeza, Germán Garrote.
    Reaching the favourable conservation status: future roles and challenges for Iberian Lynx Ex Situ conservation program.

11-50 – 12-10

  • Viatcheslav V. Rozhnov, Sergei V. Naidenko, Viatcheslav V. Rozhnov, Sergei V. Naidenko, Viatcheslav V. Rozhnov, Sergei V. Naidenko, Viatcheslav V. Rozhnov, Sergei V. Naidenko, Alexander Yu. Kalinin, Vyacheslav A. Kastrikin.
    Results of the Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) population restoration project in the north-west of the range.

12-10 – 12-40 Coffee-break

12-40 – 13-00

  • Sergei V. Aramilev., Viktor B. Kuzmenko. The experience of reintroduction of the Amur tiger by the “soft” method.

13-00 – 13-20

  • Randeep Singh.
    Rehabilitation of orphan tiger cubs in Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve.

13-20 – 13-40

  • Elena F. Sitnikova, Sergey V. Pazhetnov, Ekaterina S. Pazhetnova.
    The restoration program of the brown bear population in the Bryansk region and results of releasing the orphaned bear cubs into the wild.

13-40 – 14-00

  • Bhaskar Choudhury, Rathin Barman, Samshul Ali, Khanin Changmai, Panjit Basumatary, Abhishek Narayanan.
    Coexistence in conflict: Spatio temporal patterns of human-leopard interactions in Assam.

14-00 – 15-00 Lunch

15-00 – 15-20

  • Andrei D. Poyarkov.
    The necessity of adherence to subspecies taxonomy upon reintroduction.

15-20 – 15-40

  • Viatcheslav V. Rozhnov, Miroslav P. Korablev, Andrei D. Poyarkov.
    Intraspecific taxonomic structure of the snow leopard: the need to take it into account when restoring the species on the territory of Russia.

15-40 – 16-00

  • Pandey Puneet, Cho Sujoo, Hyun Jee Yun, Marchenkova Taisia, Vitkalova Anna, Petrov Timophey, Jung Daecheol, Lee Jangmi, Kim Dong Youn, Li Ying, Darman Yury, Singh Randeep, Bardyuk Victor, Kim Kyung Seok, Chon Alvin, Bhak Jong, Yu Mihyeon, Song Hye Kyung, Goyal Surendra Prakash, Bayarkhagva Damdingiin, Min Mi-Sook, Lee Hang.
    PanPlex – a unified DNA typing methodology for big cats’ population methodology for big cats’ population

16-00 – 16-20

  • Taisia V. Marchenkova, Yury A. Darman, Alexei V. Kostyrya, Olga V. Uphyrkina.
    Assessment of the current genetic diversity of the natural population of the Far Eastern leopard.

16-20 – 16-40

  • Taisia V. Marchenkova, Polina L. Perelman, Ekaterina Yu. Blidchenko, Natalia A. Serdyukova, Olga V. Uphyrkina.
    Monitoring and analysis of “white paws” in the Far Eastern leopard population and the start of genetic research to find the mutation.

16-40 – 17-00

  • Pavel A. Sorokin, Viatcheslav V. Rozhnov, Sergei V. Naidenko, Jose A. Hernandez-Blanco.
    Use of genetic data from museum samples in genetic testing of animals used for reintroduction.

17-00 – 18-00 Discussion

10-00 – 10-20

  • Robert B. Sandlersky, Ivan P. Kotlov, Anna A. Yachmennikova, Shibing Zhu, Qu Yi, Dmitri V. Dobrynin, Viatcheslav V. Rozhnov.
    Assessment of the suitability of the habitats of the Taipinggou National Park (China, Heilongjiang Province) for the reintroduction of the Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica).

10-20 – 10-40

  • Shibing Zhu, Ivan P. Kotlov, Anna A. Yachmennikova, Qu Yi, Robert B. Sandlersky, Viatcheslav V. Rozhnov, Yngzhu Liu, Shifang Zhang.
    Interpretation and application of habitat data of Amur tiger and its prey population in Lesser Khingan Mountains.

10-40 – 11-00

  • Ivan P. Kotlov, Anna A. Yachmennikova, Shibing Zhu, Robert B. Sandlersky, Qu Yi, Viatcheslav V. Rozhnov.
    Is the Lesser Khingan territory suitable for the Amur tiger restoration? Perspectives with the current state of the habitat and prey base.

11-00 – 11-20

  • Germán Garrote, Eva Rojas, Ramón Perez de Ayala, Juan Francisco Sanchez, Francisco Javier Herrera, Pedro Sarmento, Margarida Fernandes, Carmen Rueda, Nuria El Khadir, María Jesús Palacios, Matías Taborda, Guillermo Lopez, Javier Salcedo.
    Improving connectivity between populations of the endangered Iberian lynx.

11-20 – 11-40

  • Rustam H. Pshegusov, Anna A. Yachmennikova, Jose A. Hernandez-Blanco, Maria D. Chistopolova, Alim B. Pkhitikov, Sergei A. Trepet, Natalia A. Dronova, Sergei V. Naidenko, Viatcheslav V. Rozhnov.
    Application of species distribution modeling in the reintroduction of predatory mammals (on the example of the Persian Leopard).

11-40 – 12-00

  • Rozhnov V.V., Tembotova F.A., Pkhitikov A.B., Pshegusov R.Kh., Magomedov V.-R.D., Yachmennikova A.A., Naidenko S.V., Sorokin P.A., Hernandez-Blanco J.A., Chistopolova M.D., Starunina I.E., Trepet S.A., Veinberg P.I., Dzutsev Z.V., Voshchanova I.P., Dronova N.A.
    Reintroduction of the Persian leopard in the Caucasus: current information.

12-10 – 12-40 Coffee-break

12-40 – 13-00

  • Andrei D. Poyarkov.
    Role of ontogenesis in successful reintroduction of large predators.

13-00 – 13-20

  • Ekaterina Yu. Blidchenko, Anna A. Yachmennikova, Viatcheslav V. Rozhnov.
    Methodological aspects of rehabilitation of different large carnivores: general principles and key differences.

13-20 – 13-40

  • Sergei A. Kolchin, Viktor G. Yudin.
    Using the method of V.S. Pazhetnov in the study of the ontogeny of behavior and rehabilitation of orphaned bear cubs of the Himalayan bear (Ursus thibetanus).

13-40 – 14-00

  • Anna A. Yachmennikova., Anna A. Korenkova, Irina E. Starunina, Svetlana V. Yuodvirshis, Mikhail A. Morozov, Tatiana S. Demina, Viatcheslav V. Rozhnov.
    Development of kittens of the Far Eastern leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis) during the first year of life and development of the scale of ontogenesis: observations in captivity.

14-00 – 15-00 Lunch

15-00 – 15-20

  • Anna A. Yachmennikova, Viatcheslav V. Rozhnov, Anna A. Korenkova.
    Behavior formation in leopard cubs (Panthera pardus): how to take into account the ontogenesis scale of when raising cubs for reintroduction.

15-20 – 15-40

  • Anastasia L. Antonevich, António Rivas, Maria José Pérez, Victoria Asensio, Rodrigo Serra, Sergey V. Naidenko.
    Individual differences of cubs in the ontogeny of behaviour in Eurasian and Iberian lynx.

15-40 – 16-00

  • Jason K. Badridze.
    Different aspects of wolf reintroduction.

16-00 – 16-20

  • Ekaterina S. Pazhetnova, Sergey V. Pazhetnov.
    Some necessary conditions for the implementation of activities for the rehabilitation of orphaned brown bear cubs (Ursus arctos, Linnaeus, 1758), arriving before the age of six months.

16-20 – 16-40

  • Guangshun Jiang, Yanchun Xu , Zhijun Hou, Mingwei Xing, Dan Liu, Jiayin Gu, Jinzhe Qi, Heng Bao,Yue Zhao.
    Wild Amur tiger “Wandashan No.1” rescued and reintroduced in China.

16-40 – 17-00

  • Kira V. Skripova.
    Experience of reintroduction of the Asian black bear to the Republic of Korea.

17-00 – 18-00 Discussion

10-00 – 10-20

  • Garrote G., Rojas E., Perez de Ayala R., Sanchez J.F., Herrera F.J., Sarmento P., Fernandes M., Rueda C., El Khadir N., Palacios M.J., Taborda M., Lopez G., Salcedo J.
    Improving connectivity between populations of the endangered Iberian lynx.

10-20 – 10-40

  • Nobuyuki Yamaguchi.
    Into the wild: How captive-born desert hedgehogs survive in the wild following their release.

10-40 – 11-00

  • Jose A. Hernandez-Blanco, Anna A. Yachmennikova, Maria D. Chistopolova, Alim B. Pkhitikov, Sergei A. Trepet, Zaurbek V. Dzutsev, Pavel I. Weinberg, Sergey V. Naidenko, Pavel A. Sorokin, Natalia A. Dronova,and Viatcheslav V. Rozhnov.
    Best practices in Monitoring of Persian Leopards (Panthera pardus saxicolor) after reintroduction into the Russian Caucasus.

11-00 – 11-20

  • Alim B. Pkhitikov, Sergei A. Trepet, Viatcheslav V. Rozhnov, Jose A. Hernandez-Blanco, Anna A. Yachmennikova, Maria D. Chistopolova, Pavel I. Weinberg, Zaurbek V. Dzutsev, Natalia A. Dronova.
    Diet of the Persian leopard individuals (Panthera pardus saxicolor) after reintroduction in the Western and Central Caucasus

11-20 – 11-40

  • Pavel I. Weinberg, Zaurbek V. Dzutsev, Jose A. Hernandez-Blanco, Maria D. Chistopolova, Anna A. Yachmennikova, Alim B. Pkhitikov, Sergey V. Naidenko, Natalia A. Dronova, Viatcheslav V. Rozhnov. Comparative behavior of released leopards – choice of habitats, hiding of prey (assessment of adaptive traits).

11-40 – 12-00

  • Maria D. Chistopolova, Jose A. Hernandez-Blanco, Sergey V. Naidenko, Pavel A. Sorokin, Anna A. Yachmennikova, Ekaterina Yu. Blidchenko, Alexander N. Rybin, Viatcheslav V. Rozhnov.
    Dynamics of spatial relationships of reintroduced tigers with wolves and prey species.

12-10 – 12-40 Coffee-break

12-40 – 13-00

  • Jose A. Hernandez-Blanco, Maria D. Chistopolova, Anna A. Yachmennikova, Alim B. Pkhitikov, Sergei A. Trepet, Zaurbek V. Dzutsev, Pavel I. Weinberg, Sergey V. Naidenko, Pavel A. Sorokin, Natalia A. Dronova and Viatcheslav V. Rozhnov.
    Space use dynamics of Persian Leopards (Panthera pardus saxicolor) after reintroduction into Western and Central Caucasus, Russia.

13-00 – 13-20

  • Rodrigo Serra, Rui Bernardino, Jsesús Fernández, José António Godoy, Katarina Jewgenow, Maria José Pérez, Maria Teresa Rios, António Rivas, Eduardo Roldán, Íñigo Sánchez.
    Iberian lynx ex situ conservation: current status and management challenges.

13-20 – 13-40

  • Sergey V. Pazhetnov, Ekaterina S. Pazhetnova.
    The territory investigation and establishing by the brown bear individuals (Ursus arctos, Linnaeus, 1758) after releasing into natural habitat.

13-40 – 14-00

  • Jose A. Hernandez-Blanco, Maria D. Chistopolova, Anna A. Yachmennikova, Sergei A. Trepet, Alim B. Pkhitikov, Sergey V. Naidenko, Pavel A. Sorokin, Natalia A. Dronova and Viatcheslav V. Rozhnov.
    Space use and Dynamic Interaction Patterns of Persian Leopards (Panthera pardus saxicolor) after reintroduction into Western Caucasus.

14-00 – 15-00 Lunch

  • Maria D. Chistopolova, Jose A. Hernandez-Blanco, Anna A. Yachmennikova, Sergey V. Naidenko, Alim B. Pkhitikov, Sergei A.
    Trepet, Zaurbek V. Dzutsev, Natalia A. Dronova, Viatcheslav V. Rozhnov. Attitude of reintroduced Persian leopard individuals to human-built infrastructure.

15-20 – 15-40

  • Anna V. Vitkalova, Ekaterina Yu. Blidchenko, Yury A. Darman.
    Some aspects of the reproductive biology of the Far Eastern leopard according to automatic cameras in the Land of the Leopard National Park

15-40 – 16-00

  • Sergei V. Naidenko, Maria N. Erofeeva, Irina E. Starunina, Polina S. Klyuchnikova, Jose A. Hernandez-Blanco, Maria D. Chistopolova, Ekaterina Yu. Blidchenko, Nadezhda V. Sulikhan, Mikhail N. Litvinov, Viatcheslav V. Rozhnov.
    Analysis of pathogen presence in habitats of large felids in the Russian Far East.

16-00 – 16-20

  • Guillermo López, Teresa del Rey-Wamba, Marcos López-Parra, Germán Garrote, Leonardo Fernández, Maribel García-Tardío, Rafael Antonio Arenas-Rojas, Javier Salcedo.
    Importance of Iberian lynx sanitary monitoring in a fragmented population.

16-20 – 16-40

  • Sergei V. Naidenko, Pavel A. Sorokin, Polina S. Klyuchnikova, Anna A. Yachmennikova, Irina E. Starunina, Jose A. Hernandez-Blanco, Viatcheslav V. Rozhnov.
    Why it is necessary to analyze pathogen presence in the Persian leopard reintroduction areas in the Caucasus.

16-40 – 17-00

  • Seth Thomas, Mohammad Farhadinia, Vincent van der Merwe, William Douglas de Carvalho, Cristina Adania, Rok Černe, Tomislav Gomerčić, Miha Krofel, Jeffrey Thompson.
    Evaluating the impacts of global large carnivore reintroduction and translocation strategies.

16-40 – 18-00 Discussion

10-00 – 10-20

  • Аndrei N. Boltunov.
    An algorithm for a decision making on the rescue of polar bear cubs under 2 years old found without a mother.

10-20 – 10-40

  • Irina P. Voshchanova.
    Human-Polar bears conflicts, what to do with these individuals? Analysis of possible solutions.

10-40 – 11-00

  • Sergei V. Naidenko, Polina S. Klyuchnikova, Tariana S. Demina, Natalia V. Esaulova, Anton E. Bersenev.
    Assessment of the welfare of polar bears in captivity.

11-00 – 11-20

  • Javier Salcedo, Marcos López-Parra, Germán Garrote, Leonardo Fernández, Maribel García-Tardío, Rafael Antonio Arenas-Rojas, Teresa del Rey-Wamba, Guillermo López.
    The challenge of controlling mortality in a fragmented Iberian lynx population.

11-20 – 11-40

  • María Cuenca, Antonio Rivas, Iñigo Sánchez, María J. Pérez-Aspa, Rodrigo Serra, Victoria Asensio, Eloy Revilla y José A. Godoy.
    Effects of ancestry and inbreeding on the Iberian lynx exsitu conservation programme’s breeding success.

11-40 – 12-00

  • Germán Garrote, Guillermo López Ramón, Perez de Ayala, Juan Francisco Sanchez, Pedro Sarmento, María Jesús Palacios González, Fernando Silvestre, Javier Salcedo, Emídio Santos, Marcos Lopez, Javier Cáceres, Miguel Angel Lopez, Samuel Pla, Nuria El-Khadir.
    Measures taken to bring Iberian lynx back to the brink of extinction.

12-00 – 12-20

  • Alexander B. Ermolin.
    On centers for rehabilitation of large carnivores within their range, including the Amur tiger.

12-20 – 12-40

  • Viatcheslav V. Rozhnov, Valeri A. Shadrikov.
    Centre for study of rare Felids species «Ak Bars»: place in the conservation of their populations.

12-40 – 14-00 Обсуждение / Discussion

14-00 – 17-00 Товарищеский обед