CHANGES IN THE NUMBER OF WILD UNGULATES IN THE SOUTHWEST PRIMORSKIY PROVINCE, RUSSIA
Journal: Russian Journal of Ecosystem Ecology
Year: 2025

Management of populations of rare predators is impossible without knowledge of the number and density of their main prey species. In the Southwest Primorskiy Province, the world’s only wild population of the Far Eastern leopard has been preserved, and the area is also part of the range of the Amur tiger. The main hunting objects of these rare predators are ungulates: sika deer, roe deer, wild boar. In 2019, a new ungulate species for Primorskiy Krai and Russia – the water deer – was discovered h