Belovezhskaya Pushcha records rise in bison population

A bison count has been conducted in the Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park, BelTA learned from the national park.

Mammalogists from the scientific department together with the ranger service carried out the counting work. A total of 784 bison were counted, 58 more than at the beginning of 2025. Specialists determined the population’s age and sex breakdown: 130 males (16.6% of the population), 425 females (54.2%), 139 young animals aged 1.5 to 3.5 years (17.7%), and 90 calves under one year old (11.5%).

Bison live in different parts of Belovezhskaya Pushcha. A third of the population has made its home in the south: in the Sukhopolskoye, Nikorskoye, Yasenskoye and Pashukovskoye forest districts. Nearly 23% were spotted in the northeastern part of the national park: in the Novodvorskoye and Porozovskoye forest districts. In the north, around 70 animals are found in the Svislochskoye forest district.

“At present, the southwestern herd lives in the territory of the Kamenets hunting and fishing society (184 animals, 23.5% of the population), and a group that has split off from the southern herd (82 animals, 10.5%) is found in the Pruzhany hunting and fishing society,” the national park’s scientific department said.