The extraordinarily uncommon grey and bowhead whales residing within the waters of the Sea of Okhotsk close to the Shantar Islands are included within the particular listing of the federal undertaking “Conservation of Biodiversity”. These marine mammals have been equated in standing with the Amur tigers and Far Japanese leopards, as they’re endangered.
Bowhead whales within the Sea of Okhotsk stay in an remoted inhabitants, the Khabarovsk Krai Right this moment information company stories. There are not more than 300-400 of them right here (that is the rarest whale within the Russian seas). Grey whales are thought of to be one of many oldest cetaceans. Their females mate with two males directly, and the position of the second just isn’t absolutely outlined. One other thriller of grey whales is the place they go to winter and the place they offer beginning to offspring.
“We will use tags, drones that will track the life of sea giants in their natural environment. When I dived, when I surfaced, how many individuals are in the herd, what relations exist between them, ”mentioned Vladimir Andronov, director of the Zapovednoye Priamurye Federal State Budgetary Establishment.
Because it turned recognized in Could, within the Khabarovsk Territory, the territory of the Shantar Islands Nationwide Park was elevated by 2 thousand hectares. The park has turn out to be bigger as a result of project of latest forest lands and lands of specifically protected territories and objects to it within the Tuguro-Chumikansky municipal district of the Khabarovsk Territory. The Shantar Islands space has been one of many fundamental whale catching areas within the North Pacific because the mid-19th century. Guests to the Nationwide Park can see bears, whales and seals, and from afar – enormous nests of Steller’s sea eagles on rocky peaks.
