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Tigers of the Taiga | Robin Hanbury-Tenison | Russian Federation, Siberia-Central, Lake Baikal

The Udege economy depends on trapping throughout the long winter and fishing in the river during the summer. The River Bikin is the most important remaining refuge of the Siberian tiger, 40 of which, out of a wild population that is probably now below 200, live and breed successfully there




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