The animals of the Red Book of the Tambov Region are rare or endangered representatives of the fauna world. The book contains information about the status of animals, their distribution and abundance. It also talks about certain limiting factors.
Geography
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 in the southern part. The flora of this region is diverse and unique: aspen, oak, maple, linden, pine, ash grow here. The fauna of this region is represented by various inhabitants of the steppes and forests. Here you can meet:
- steppe eagles;
- large jerboas;
- gray partridges;
- ordinary hedgehogs;
- red deer;
- weft;
- muskrat;
- gray herons;
- black storks;
- badgers;
- Lynxes
- goats, etc.
Tambov region is famous for its pools. It is here that such rivers as Crow, Lomovis, Tsna, Bityug, Forest Voronezh flow. The largest river in its length is the Forest Tambov. Unfortunately, as in all regions of the globe, the Tambov region has its own endangered species of animals. They are listed in the Red Book, which is a red traffic light for us people.
About the Red Book of the Tambov Region
This is an official document, presented in the form of an annotated list of rare and endangered animals and plants living and growing in this territory. In this article we will not consider rare plants, here we are only interested in fauna. Before starting the story, we note that the animals of the Red Book of the Tambov Region need our protection with you, so let's stop, look around and think about our attitude to mother nature.
The flora of this region is certainly diverse and unique, but even here, many species of fauna over the past decades irrevocably reduce their populations, passing into the category of rare or completely disappearing. Man is directly or indirectly to blame for this: the destruction and transformation of natural habitats occurs, their pollution or even the direct destruction of animals.
Silver spider
The 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, mammals, and, of course, spiders. Among the latter - the so-called silverfish. This creature belongs to the order of arachnids and the family of water spiders.
The silver spider is widespread throughout Europe, in Asia Minor, in the Caucasus, in 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 inimitable, does not have any specific information about the number of silverfish in the past.
Sterlet
This fish belongs to the sturgeon order and the sturgeon family. Scientists suspect that this is already an extinct species of fish that once lived in the Tambov region. In general, sterlet is found in the basins of the Black, Azov, Caspian, White, Baltic, Barents and Kara Seas. In 2010, it was included in the VSOP Red List.
What will the Red Book of the Tambov Region tell us about this? The animals of these places, in particular, the already extinct fish, once lived permanently in the river Tsna. According to scribe books, in the XVII century the sterlet also lived there. At present, it can be found in the Moksha River (just below the mouth of the Tsna River). Ichthyologists suggest that theoretically sterlet really once could have entered the river Tsna.
Animals of the Red Book of the Tambov Region. Lynx
This wild cat is widespread in the forests and in the highlands of Europe, Central and North Asia, as well as in some areas of Western Asia and North America. Lynx is an inhabitant of dense coniferous and mixed forests. As a rule, leads a solitary lifestyle. Sometimes you can meet a small group consisting of a female and her brood.
Lynxes, like many other animals of the Red Book of the Tambov region, are completely ordinary and typical representatives of some areas of our country, but not in the Tambov region! Here, their numbers declined markedly, because once the lynx was the object of fur trade and breeding in animal husbandry.
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. For centuries, mink has been and continues to be a valuable object of fur trade. Fortunately, her Caucasian subspecies is today carefully guarded in many Russian regions.
European mink is widespread throughout Europe (except for the south and northwest), in the west of Western Siberia, in the Caucasus. The habitat is narrowing, the number of this animal in the Tambov region is rapidly declining, so urgent measures must be taken to restore or at least preserve its population.
Common copperfish
This snake is described in the Red Book of the Tambov Region as a rare species with a low abundance in this territory. She represents a squad of scaly snakes from the family of suppers. The reasons for the decline in the population of copperfish are
- complete dependence on the population of the main food object of copperfish - quick lizards;
- direct destruction of these snakes by people due to their illiteracy and ignorance.
