Open AccessWild reindeer of the Kamchatka Peninsula - past, present, and future
Author(s) -
Vladimir I. Mosolov
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
rangifer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1890-6729
pISSN - 0333-256X
DOI - 10.7557/2.16.4.1282
Subject(s) - subspecies , peninsula , geography , herd , competition (biology) , ecology , archaeology , biology
A unique subspecies of wild reindeer (Rangifer tarandus phylarchus Hollister) that is endemic to the Kamchatka Peninsula has been declining in number since the 1950s due to commercial hunting, increasing industrial development and competition with domestic reindeer. The largest remaining herd of wild reindeer occurs in the Kronotsky Reserve in northeastern Kamchatka, and the reserve is now critical to the preservation of this subspecies of reindeer