Amur Tiger Conservation Education Program
events, including lessons, excursions, and contests, were held in three northern districts of
Primorye for 13, 538 children and 786 adults.
a) Eco-classes in Terney
Watching larga seals
In 2005, Phoenix established ties with the
Uragus ecological NGO of Terney town,
led by Galina Maksimova who devoted the
greater of her life to teaching children
Biology and Ecology. Terney is a
strategically important place for tiger
education. Sikhote-Alin Biosphere
Reserve is located in the district. The
Russian-American
Amur tiger
conservation project has been running
©Phoenix there for 15 years. Since very beginning,
Uragus started collaborating with
scientists in education and outreach among
the youth, inviting them to lessons and holidays, such as Tiger Day. Schoolchildren take
care of a wonderful garden in the club's yard, go hiking to picturesque corners and have
visits with performances by their peers from villages, at times very remote ones. A tiger
poster on the wall of Terney school appeals for people to save it.
During the reported period the educator carried out 334 eco-lessons and other events of
the Amur tiger and nature-related topics. All in all, over 5,035 children and 701 adults
attended the events.
In January the educator held 21 classes and an excursion for 115 children aged 6-17.
In early January the educator worked to
prepare six children for the regional
Biology competition. Six classes were
devoted to larga seal, also known as
spotted seal (phoca largha). Using field-
guides and videos the children learned
about sea mammals of the Sea of Japan
and ecological and biological peculiarities
of that group of animals. Then, the
children made a day-long excursion to
Blagodatnoye lodgement of the Sikhote-
Alin Biosphere Nature Reserve where they
watched larga seals on the reefs for several
©Phoenix hours. During two following classes the
pupils were encouraged to express their
feelings towards sea mammals with the help of drawings, photos and modelling. The
children were much excited about the excursion because they had never seen live larga
seals before though they lived at the seaside. On the way back to the reserve they saw
many tracks of ungulates, raccoon dog, and fox in the snow and saw a cormorant, sea
eagle and harlequin ducks.
Paper folding craft lesson devoted to Amur tigerView entire presentation