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(04-08-2018, 03:11 AM)Jeffrey Wrote:

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Gooood news Amur leopards population reaching now over 100 says expert. Still highly endangered but an increase though .

http://siberiantimes.com/ecology/others/...xtinction/

Good find Jeffrey, thanks. Actually situation with Amur leopards in 21th century is very similar to situation with Amur tigers in 20th century... During their their lowest point 80-90 years ago Siberian tigers decreased to only 30-40 animals, now they are around 500, so hopefully Amur leopards who two decades ago in their lowest point also touched 30 hopefully one day will reach 500....
Its true that Northern areal of the tiger had always been larger than Northern areal of the leopard due to longer legs of tiger not sinking in that degree in the snow, but in same time the individual teritory of the tiger is much larger than the leopards teritory. Now the most decesive act should be transfer of the part the population from Eastern Manchurian mountains ("Land of the leopard NP") to the vast wilderness of Sihote-Alin mountain range where this animal lived untill 70-s.
This is a remarkable success of Russian conservation program showing its high efficiency concerning protection of any kind of big cats. Reply