The main principle of the strategy of the hunting economy development in the Russian Federation is that the management of hunting resources should be based on the results of monitoring. A detailed assessment of the state of moose resources – the most valuable hunting species in the vast territories of the Russian Federation and in a separate region, based on long-term data through, population analysis, provides information about the past and current state of these resources, opens up opportunities for forecasting and rational management of their populations. The present research is devoted to the study of the state of resources of the traditional hunting species – moose (Alces alces L.). The aim of the work is to systematize long-term primary data and, using them, to perform a population analysis of the state of moose resources in the Russian Federation and in the Tver region over the past 25 years. Some static and dynamic indicators are defined: total abundance and population dynamics, population density, absolute and relative rates of population change, population growth rate, production volumes and dynamics of production volumes. It was found that the number of moose in the Russian Federation in the period from 1996 to 2020 increased by 83.2 % to 1 149 thous. animals. In the Tver region increased by 56.7 % and amounted to 29 505 animals in 2021. The obtained materials can assist in the development of ways to improve the efficiency of monitoring and exploitation of moose resources.

Morgunov Nikolai A., Chugreev Mikhail K., Zhigarev Igor A., Tkacheva Irina S.

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