Animals of the Red Book of the Tambov Region: photo and description

Animals of the Red Book of the Tambov Region are rare or endangered species of the fauna. The book contains information about the status of animals, their distribution and abundance. It is also said here about certain limiting factors.

Geography

The Tambov region is located on the East European Plain, where forests are constantly replaced by steppes. A distinctive geographical feature of this area is that the main forests are located in the northern part, and the main steppes are in the southern part. The flora of this region is diverse and unique: here grow aspen, oak, maple, linden, pine, ash. The animal world of this region is represented by various inhabitants of steppes and forests. Here you can find:

• Steppe eagles;
• Large tushkanov;
• Gray partridges ;
• Ordinary hedgehogs;
• Noble deer;
• Ducks;
• Muskrats;
• Gray herons ;
• Black storks;
• Badgers;
• Lynx;
• Kozodoev and so on.

Tambov region is famous for its swimming pools. It is here that rivers such as the Crow, Lomovis, Tsna, Bityug, Lesnoy Voronezh flow. The largest river is the Lesnoy Tambov. Unfortunately, as in all regions of the globe, there are endangered species of animals in the Tambov region. They are listed in the Red Book, which is a red signal of a traffic light for us - people.

On the Red Book of the Tambov Region

This official document is presented in the form of an annotated list of rare and endangered animals and plants that live and grow in the area. In this article we will not consider rare plants, here we are only interested in fauna. Before we begin the story, we note that the animals of the Red Book of Tambov region need our protection, so let's stop, look back and think about our relationship to Mother Nature.

The flora of this region is certainly diverse and unique, but even here many species of fauna representatives have irretrievably reduced their populations over the past decades, moving to the category of rare or completely disappearing. The person is directly or indirectly to blame for this: the destruction and transformation of natural habitats, their contamination or, in general, direct destruction of animals.

Spider-Silver

Animals of the Red Book of the Tambov Region (pictures and photographs are given in our article) are insects, fish, amphibians (amphibians), reptiles (reptiles), birds and mammals, and, of course, spiders. Among the latter - the so-called serebryanka. This creature belongs to a group of arachnids and a family of water spiders.

Spider-silver is spread throughout Europe, in Asia Minor, the Caucasus, Siberia and Kazakhstan, in Tibet, on Sakhalin. In addition, this species of spiders was recorded in the Tambov region, in particular in its environs and in the Galdym forestry. Unfortunately, the Red Book of the Tambov region, whose animals are unique and unique, does not have any specific information about the number of silver in the past.

Sterlet

This fish belongs to the group of sturgeon and sturgeon family. Scientists suspect that this is already a disappeared species of fish, once inhabiting the Tambov region. In general, the sterlet is found in the basins of the Black, Azov, Caspian, White, Baltic, Barents and Kara Seas. In 2010, it was included in the IUCN Red List.

What will the Red Book of Tambov Region tell us about this? Animals of these places, in particular already extinct fish, once lived permanently in the river Tsna. According to scribal books, in the XVII there lived the sterlet. Currently, it can be found in the Moksha River (just below the mouth of the Tsna River). Ichthyologists suggest that, theoretically, the sterlet really could once enter the river Tsna.

Animals of the Red Book of the Tambov Region. Lynx

This wild cat is widespread in the forest and high mountains of Europe, Central and North Asia, as well as in some areas of the Near East and North America. Lynx - inhabitant of dense coniferous and mixed forests. As a rule, leads a single way of life. Sometimes you can meet a small group consisting of a female and her brood.

Lynx, like many other animals of the Red Book of the Tambov region, are quite ordinary and typical representatives of some areas of our country, but not in the Tambov region! Here their numbers noticeably decreased, since once the lynx was the object of fur-bearing and breeding in fur farms.

European mink

Unfortunately, some animals of the Red Book of the Tambov region disappear from these places, "thanks to" the activities of industrialists and poachers. Mink from time immemorial has been and continues to be a valuable object of fur trade. Fortunately, its Caucasian subspecies are now carefully guarded in many Russian regions.

The European mink is widely distributed throughout Europe (except for the south and north-west), in the west of Western Siberia, in the Caucasus. The habitat is narrowed, the number of this animal within the Tambov region is rapidly declining, therefore, urgent measures should be taken to restore or at least preserve its population.

Ordinary Copperchide

This snake is described in the Red Data Book of the Tambov Region as a rare species that has a low population in the given territory. She represents a squad of scaly serpents from the family of urchins. The reasons for the drop in the Copanok population are as follows:

• Complete dependence on the population of the main food object of copper coins - fast lizards;
• Direct destruction of these snakes by people due to their illiteracy and ignorance.

Animals of the Red Book of the Tambov Region. Badger

Badgers are good-natured omnivores. They feed mainly on invertebrates, which are found in forest litter, in the soil. Badger is common in the European part of Russia, in the Urals, in the south of Siberia up to Transbaikalia, as well as in the Caucasus, Primorye and Amur Region. Typical habitats are forests and steppes: there these animals can be found on the slopes of ravines, in the mountains, near water bodies.

Unfortunately, these good-natured creatures are on the verge of total extinction. This is evidenced by the Red Book of the Tambov Region. Animals, the photos of which we here give, are unfortunate creatures, subject to complete extermination on the part of man. For decades, people have exterminated badgers for the sake of their medicinal fat, which has long been used in non-traditional medicine.