Today is Siberia Day, for this date the Presidential Foundation for Nature has collected six stories about how rare animals, birds and entire ecosystems are preserved in the region. Pallas's cat is returned to Transbaikalia: Over the past 30 years, this whiskered wild cat has almost disappeared from the steppe. Now it is protected, its habitats are patrolled and a special rehabilitation center has been built. In the Novosibirsk and Altai regions, white-headed ducks, the rarest ducks in Russia, are waiting in the wings. The birds will be released into the wild and their adaptation to two hundred water bodies will be monitored. In Lake Baikal they work in two directions. Cape Burkan in Olekhun is being put in order: part of the area is closed to restore vegetation, ecological paths are laid. And they study the health and movement of the Baikal seal. In Altai, camera traps confirmed a whole group of snow leopards in the South Chuya Range - adult cats, kittens and the famous short-tailed tiger Dima. And in the Western Sayan there was a real sensation: once only one male remained there, but after the world's first experiment in transporting tigers from Tajikistan, the group grew to 21 individuals. Siberia today is protected by science, patience and a lot of work.

Today is Siberia Day, for this date the Presidential Foundation for Nature has collected six stories about how rare animals, birds and entire ecosystems are preserved in the region. Pallas's cat is returned to Transbaikalia: Over the past 30 years, this whiskered wild cat has almost disappeared from the steppe. Now it is protected, its habitats are patrolled and a special rehabilitation center has been built. In the Novosibirsk and Altai regions, white-headed ducks, the rarest ducks in Russia, are waiting in the wings. The birds will be released into the wild and their adaptation to two hundred water bodies will be monitored. In Lake Baikal they work in two directions. Cape Burkan in Olekhun is being put in order: part of the area is closed to restore vegetation, ecological paths are laid. And they study the health and movement of the Baikal seal. In Altai, camera traps confirmed a whole group of snow leopards in the South Chuya Range - adult cats, kittens and the famous short-tailed tiger Dima. And in the Western Sayan there was a real sensation: once only one male remained there, but after the world's first experiment in transporting tigers from Tajikistan, the group grew to 21 individuals. Siberia today is protected by science, patience and a lot of work.