After years of steep population decline caused by hunting and habitat destruction, the Siberian crane was on the brink of extinction in 2015. There were just 3,500 Siberian cranes left in the wild.

forming a thick mat in some areas and thereby adversely affecting the breeding habitat of the Siberian cranes. Records maintained by Park management indicated that the wintering population of Siberian ...

The critically endangered Siberian Crane gets a bit of a breather, thanks to the securing of its stopover sites along the Russia-China migratory path, according to the International Crane Foundation.

YAKUTSK, November 27. /TASS/. The population of Siberian cranes, threatened with extinction, stabilized thanks to joint work of Russian and Chinese ornithologists during the nesting time in hard ...