{"id":528843,"date":"2026-03-26T22:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T19:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=528843"},"modified":"2026-03-27T12:25:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T09:25:17","slug":"belarusian-part-of-belovezhskaya-pushcha-counts-784-bison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarusian-part-of-belovezhskaya-pushcha-counts-784-bison","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian Part of Belovezhskaya Pushcha Counts 784 Bison"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The annual bison census has been completed in Belovezhskaya Pushcha. As of January 1, 2026, specialists counted 784 individuals \u2014 58 more than a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of the animals are adult females \u2014 425 individuals, or 54.2% of the population. Adult males number 130 (16.6%), juveniles aged between 1.5 and 3.5 years \u2014 139 individuals (17.7%), and calves under one year old \u2014 90 (11.5%).<\/p>\n<p>The largest group is located in the southern part of the forest \u2014 263 individuals. In the north-eastern part, 178 bison are concentrated, while 184 individuals are counted in the south-western herd on the territory of the Kamianiec District BSSR Hunting Society. Another 82 animals from a separated part of the southern herd live in the Pruzhany District BSSR Hunting Society, while 69 bison are found in the northern part of the forest. Eight animals are kept in excursion enclosures.<\/p>\n<p>The census was conducted in January\u2013February by staff of the scientific department and the ranger service of the national park, the park\u2019s press service <a href=\"https:\/\/npbp.by\/about\/news\/itogi-uchyetov-zubrov-v-belovezhskoy-pushche-v-2026-godu\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was reported earlier that in February the results of the annual bison census in Poland\u2019s Bia\u0142owie\u017ca National Park were announced. As of December 31 last year, 1,176 bison were recorded in the Polish part of Belovezhskaya Pushcha, including 176 calves <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/1-176-european-bison-counted-in-polish-part-of-bialowieza-forest\">according to the data<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual bison census has been completed in Belovezhskaya Pushcha. As of January 1, 2026, specialists counted 784 individuals \u2014 58 more than a year earlier. The majority of the animals are adult females \u2014 425 individuals, or 54.2% of the population. Adult males number 130 (16.6%), juveniles aged between 1.5 and 3.5 years \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":528842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69c64d039baba.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarusian Part of Belovezhskaya Pushcha Counts 784 Bison"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[143118],"class_list":["post-528843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-belarus"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}