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  Amur Case
Amur river is one of the largest rivers in North East Asia.
Amur wetland complex is a place of fish shoals reproduction and the most important migratory corridor for millions of birds.
Amur and its flood-lands have a major meaning as a habitat, migratory corridors and a nest place of richest fish shoals.
www.american.edu /ted/amur.htm   (4383 words)

  
 Amur Oblast - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Amur Oblast, territory in the far eastern region of Russia.
Amur, river, east central Asia, formed by the junction of the Shilka and Argun rivers.
The Amur flows southeast, forming the border between Russia...
encarta.msn.com /Amur_Oblast.html   (116 words)

  
 Invasive Plants of Ohio - Amur Honeysuckle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Amur, Morrow and Tatarian honeysuckles are non-native, upright, deciduous shrubs that grow to be 6-15 feet tall.
Amur honeysuckle has dark green leaves that end in a sharp point at the tip and the underside of the leaf has hair along the veins.
Amur, Morrow and Tatarian honeysuckles are native to China, Korea and Japan.
www.ohiodnr.com /dnap/invasive/1amurhoneysuck.htm   (559 words)

  
 Travel East Russia - Changing Faces of the Amur River
The Amur valley and its flood lands are the nesting area for 95 percent of the world population of Oriental White stork, 65% of red-crowned cranes and 50% of White-naped Cranes.
To the north the Amur's principal tributaries are the Zoya, the Bureya, and the Amgun rivers, to the south its main tributaries are the Sungari and the Ussuri, which constitutes another portion of the border between Russia and China.
For years the Amur River was the main route of communications connecting the forest of the Siberian interior, the Pacific coastland and even the remote shores of the Arctic Ocean.
www.traveleastrussia.com /amurriver.html   (923 words)

  
 Kommersant - Russia's Daily Online
Large-scale migration of Transbaikal Cossacks to the Amur lowlands in 1854 hastened the annexation of the Priamurye region to Russia.
The ecological situation in Amur Region is not critical compared to most other Russian regions, but it is still acute, mainly as a result of chemical contamination of the soil, air and water pollution, systematic damage to the land, exhaustion of resources, and forest degradation.
The condition of Amur Region's biological resources (plant and animal life) is considered satisfactory, although a slow but steady decrease in populations and a reduction in the number of wildlife species are observed, along with a reduction in forest area and deterioration of forest quality.
www.kommersant.com /t-34/r_5/n_377/Amur_Region   (3485 words)

  
 Amur Tiger :: Saint Louis Zoo
Tigers are the biggest cats in the world, and Amur tigers are the biggest subspecies (type) of tigers.
Amur tigers live in a harsh environment, where extremely cold temperatures and deep snow are common.
Amur tigers' large size gives them an advantage when hunting their favorite prey -- big animals such as the wild boar, elk, and roe deer.
www.stlzoo.org /animals/abouttheanimals/mammals/carnivores/amurtiger.htm   (1534 words)

  
 STF | Amur Tiger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Distribution: Wild Amur tigers are found primarily in two populations in the Russian Far East, the primary population of about 450 individuals covers 156,000 sq km in Primosky and Khabarovski Krais, and another small population of about 35 individuals occurs on the Russia-China border and into northeast China.
Sightings of Amur tigers in Changbaishan, near the Chinese border with North Korea, were reported in Chinese newspapers in 1990, and some are still found along the Russian border.
The primary prey of the Amur tiger is elk and wild boar.
www.savethetigerfund.org /Content/NavigationMenu2/Community/GeneralPublic/TigerSubspecies/AmurSiberianTigers/default.htm   (885 words)

  
 Amur or the Siberian tiger -- Panthera tigris altaica
Due to the fact that the Amur River runs directly through their Russian habitat the common name of the Siberian tiger has changed to reflect their modern-day status and this subspecies is now usually referred to as the Amur tiger.
Wild Amur tigers are thought to have experienced a 1940 all-time low of approximately 50 cats in Russia and an unknown number in China, but this could have been as high as 100 at the time.
The Amur tiger has never been common and populations which maintain a low level for long periods of time are not as subject to genetic problems as larger populations which abruptly crash or are splintered.
www.lairweb.org.nz /tiger/amur.html   (462 words)

  
 the official site of Amur chamber of commerce and industry - about Chamber - Amur region - foreign economic connections   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In 2002 the enterprises of the Amur Region carried out foreign trade operations with twenty three countries (in 2001- with 27 countries), amur goods were exported to eight countries (in 2001- to 9 countries), imported from twenty countries (in 2001- from 24 countries).
International economic activity of the Amur Region in the sphere of international cooperation is mainly oriented on China.
The functions of activation of international and external economic connections with outside partners' as one of the directions of Amur Region Administration policy were lied on the international and external economic connections and trade Committee of the Amur Region Administration.
www.atpp.amur.ru /EnAmReg-connections.htm   (872 words)

  
 Minnesota Zoo/SSP/Amur tiger
The studbook keeper for the Amur and Indochinese tiger subspecies is Kathy Traylor-Holzer, registrar and population analyst at the Minnesota Zoo.
Wild Amur tigers are found primarily in two populations in the Russian Far East and at least one or more populations on the Russia-China border and into northeast China.
The Amur tiger population has been managed at about 150-160 animals over the past 15 years to allow newly available spaces to be used for the other two tiger subspecies.
www.mnzoo.com /conservation/National/SSP/amurtig.asp   (1401 words)

  
 Amur Leopard - Ecowarriors - Care2.com
The Amur leopard is a solitary and nocturnal animal and has adapted to living in cold, snowy climates with their long legs and hair as well as living in regions with summer temperatures from 77 to 95 degrees.
The Amur leopard is a nocturnal animal, and use the silent stalk and ambush techniques also used by the tiger.
Amur leopards are particularly vulnerable because of their preference for deer, a natural predatory preference but dangerous in the Russian Far East due to direct human involvement: farmers in the Russian Far East raise deer for human consumption, and to produce antlers for the Asian medicine market.
www.care2.com /c2c/groups/disc.html?gpp=3779&pst=117363&archival=1   (1658 words)

  
 WWF | Amur-Heilong | Overview
The Amur (or Heilong) river is at the center of a 600,000 square-mile watershed
The 2750-mile Amur River is the longest undammed river in the Eastern Hemisphere.
The Amur's headwaters are in Mongolia, near the birthplace of Genghis Khan.
www.worldwildlife.org /wildplaces/amur   (532 words)

  
 Amur leopard - Panthera pardus orientalis: More Information - ARKive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Amur leopard is considered to be one of the most critically endangered big cats in the world, with just 35 remaining in the wild, all in the Russian Far East (3).
The range of the Amur leopard previously encompassed the Amur River basin and the mountains of northeastern China and the Korean peninsula (2).
The Amur leopard has been systematically hunted out of most of its former range for its coat and for the bones that are used in Traditional Chinese Medicine (2).
www.arkive.org /species/GES/mammals/Panthera_pardus_orientalis/more_info.html   (708 words)

  
 The Amur River
Amur is the sixth-longest river in the world, flowing 2,744 miles across the Far East regions of Russia, forming from a blending of the Argun and Shilka Rivers and flowing to the Tartar Strait at the Pacific Ocean.
The Amur is the largest undammed river in the world.
area in and around the Amur River is home to 95 percent of the world's Oriental white stork, as well as significant numbers of cranes and other birds.
www.socialstudiesforkids.com /articles/geography/amurriver.htm   (218 words)

  
 Triploid White Amur For Ohio, HYG-7001-88
White amur (grass carp) are members of the minnow family.Although the white amur may resemble the common carp, these fish are longer, more slender, and have no barbels at the corners of the mouth as do common carp.
The triploid white amur is genetically altered and is sterile.
It is illegal to stock the triploid or diploid white amur in non-impounded waters (streams) or in impounded waters where the fish would have access to streams or public waters.
ohioline.osu.edu /hyg-fact/7000/7001.html   (932 words)

  
 AMUR — Amur (Siberian) Tigers
The Amur (or Siberian) Tiger has the scientific name is “Panthera tigris altaica” and is the largest living cat in the world.
The Amur tiger has had a difficult time over the past hundred years with a low of less than 50 individuals in the middle of the twentieth century.
A tiger was rescued in early 2004 from a poachers snare, was treated for injuries and released from the AMUR Defender Land Rover.
www.amur.org.uk /tigers.shtml   (386 words)

  
 Amur Leopard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Description: The Amur leopard is adapted to living in cold, snowy climates with their long legs and hair as well as living in regions with summer temperatures from 77 to 95 degrees.
Conservation Status: The Amur leopard is listed as an endangered species by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and as an Appendix I species under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITIES).
The Amur leopard is the most northern race with a wild population of 55 individuals.
www.centralfloridazoo.org /animals/Amur_leopard.htm   (347 words)

  
 Khabarovsk Krai Government site - Tourism and Recreation - The Amur river
The Amur river flows across 6 regions of the Khabarovsk Territory: Khabarovsky, Nanaisky, Amursky, Komsomolsky, Ulchsky and Nikolaevsky.
The biggest tributaries of the Amur river within the Khabarovsk Territory are Amgun, Anuy, Tunguska, Bureya and Ussuri.
The valley of the Amur river in Khabarovsk Territory is characterized by a large variety of nature, presence of archeological and historical objects.
www.adm.khv.ru /invest2.nsf/pages/common/amur_en.htm   (362 words)

  
 Amur River Cultures - Arctic Studies Center
The Amur River is the largest in Siberia (about 2700 miles), equal in size and might to Alaska's Yukon River.
The Amur was the main route of communications connecting the forests of the Siberian interior, the Pacific coastland, and even the remote shores of the Arctic Ocean.
The Native people who inhabited the lower Amur valley were a mixture of various of Tungus and Manchu tribes from the interior, Nivkh, and probably Ainu migrants from Sakhalin Island and the Amur estuary.
www.mnh.si.edu /arctic/features/croads/amur.html   (288 words)

  
 Amur Class   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The concepts used in the Amur Class provides various modifications of the vessel through the use of anaerobic power plants and variation of its armament.
The Amur Class is speculated to have a 2000 ton displacement, a beam-to-length ratio of 1:7, a length of 67 meters, a beam of 7.2 meters, a maximum speed of 21 knots submerged and 10 knots surfaced, a crew of 30 to 34 personnel and an endurance of 45 days.
The Amur Class is expected to cost significantly less than the Kilo Class, and will shortly replace the latter as the type to be built in Russian Shipyards.
www.bharat-rakshak.com /NAVY/Amur.html   (442 words)

  
 Amur information - Search.com
The Amur River (Russian: Амур; Simplified Chinese: 黑龙江; Traditional Chinese: 黑龍江; Pinyin: Hēilóng Jiāng, or "Black Dragon River"; Mongolian: Хара-Мурэн, Khara-Muren or "Black River"; Manchu: Sahaliyan Ula, literal meaning "Black River") is one of the world’s ten longest rivers, forming the border between the Russian Far East and Manchuria in China.
Khabarovsk Bridge across the Amur used to be the longest in Imperial Russia and Eurasia.
The Amur is bordered by Heilongjiang province of China in the south, and Amur Oblast, Jewish Autonomous Oblast, and Khabarovsk Krai of Russia in the north.
domainhelp.search.com /reference/Amur   (428 words)

  
 The shaft of the Urup copper mine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Amur is the area just east of Transbaikal and Khabarovsk is a large portion of Russia's Pacific coast.
Encarta gives one such place on the border of Amur and Transbaikal, but that is not the correct one.
Mereck in Amur is a greisen locality mainly known for it's large and often perfect cassiterite crystals.
maurice.strahlen.org /amur/amur.htm   (1197 words)

  
 the official site of Amur chamber of commerce and industry - about Chamber - Amur region   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Amur Region is situated in the south-east of Russian Federation.
The Amur Region lays in a temperate thermal zone between 49-57 degrees of the northern latitude.
The Amur Region is one of the thinly populated territories of Russia (the population density is 2,5 persons a sq.kms.) The middle age of the population – 33,5 years.
www.atpp.amur.ru /EnAmur_region.htm   (889 words)

  
 Amur Maple - Landscaping
The Amur maple is unusual in several respects.
Amur maple is relatively disease and insect free.
Amur maple is an ideal specimen tree for small gardens.
www.bellaonline.com /articles/art30107.asp   (465 words)

  
 Amur Maple   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Amur Maple could be placed in two different classifications, either a small tree or a large shrub.
Amur Maple is known for its brilliant fall red colors.
The leaf of Amur Maple is similar to larger Maple trees and Dark green in color.
www.ext.nodak.edu /county/ramsey/hort/trees/decidious/varieties/amurmaple.htm   (105 words)

  
 Enchanted Tails Bengal Cats - The Amur Leopard Cat
Euptiluras or Amur cats are larger than many of the Asian Leopard cat subpecies.
Amur River, (uh MOOR,) is a huge river in eastern Siberia.
The Amur flows east along China's northern border and then turns north into the Khabarovsk Region of Russia.
enchanted-tails.com /AmurLeopardCat.htm   (410 words)

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