NATURE
Zapovednik
Zapovednik is both a 17 minutes web documentary as well as a magazine reportage on the situation of tigers in Far East Russia
PARTNER:
Ussurisk Zapovednik, BBC Widlife, Rhône-Alpes Cinema
DIRECTOR:
Emmanuel Rondeau
STATUS:
COMPLETED
DURATION:
17 minutes
Français
The Siberian tiger is the biggest species of big cat. Averaging 400 lbs and 10 feet long, with a head the size of a human rib cage, it is the most perfect land predator on the planet. Almost extinct in the 30s, the species made an extraordinary come back during the Soviet Union, when closed boundaries dramatically reduced the trade of tiger parts between Russia and China.
Andre Kirilovitch is the director of the ‘Ussurisk Zapovednik’ (Reserve of Ussurisk). From the 500 animals present in the Far East at the end of the Perestroika, only 350 descendants survive today, but the truth is, nobody really knows what is happening in the taiga.
Andre and his rangers, however, are determined to investigate.
English
The Siberian tiger is the biggest species of big cat. Averaging 400 lbs and 10 feet long, with a head the size of a human rib cage, it is the most perfect land predator on the planet. Almost extinct in the 30s, the species made an extraordinary come back during the Soviet Union, when closed boundaries dramatically reduced the trade of tiger parts between Russia and China.
Andre Kirilovitch is the director of the ‘Ussurisk Zapovednik’ (Reserve of Ussurisk). From the 500 animals present in the Far East at the end of the Perestroika, only 350 descendants survive today, but the truth is, nobody really knows what is happening in the taiga.
Andre and his rangers, however, are determined to investigate.
Trailer of the documentary
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