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Amur Leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis)
Amur Leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis)
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Amur Leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis)
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Very good news for Amur Leopard ,
Primorye, Russia – At least 57 Amur leopards now exist in Russia’s Land of the Leopard National Park, up from just 30 cats counted in 2007, according to new census data announced last week. An additional 8-12 leopards were counted in adjacent areas of China, meaning the number of Amur leopards, a rare subspecies considered the world’s rarest wild cat, has more than doubled over the past seven years. The census, taken with camera traps spread out over more than 900,000 acres of primary leopard habitat, collected around ten thousand photographs that scientists used to identify nearly 60 individual animals. Individuals are determined by distinctive patterns of spots found on leopard fur. The census was carried out by the Land of the Leopard National Park jointly with the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences with the support of The Amur Leopard Center and WWF-Russia. "Despite still being on the brink of extinction, the Amur leopard is showing encouraging signs of gradual recovery, demonstrating that dedicated conservation efforts do pay off. The collaboration between Russia and China to protect vast areas of suitable leopard habitat is the next key step to protect this species," said Carlos Drews, director of WWF´s global species programme. Land of the Leopard National Park, which includes all of the Amur leopard’s known breeding areas, was hailed as a lifeline to the critically endangered Amur leopard when established in 2012. The park is also home to the endangered Amur tiger. According to Yury Darman, head of WWF Russia Amur Branch and a member of the Supervisory Board of The Amur Leopards Center, "The national park became the main organizational force for leopard protection and research.” Conservationists are working toward monitoring leopard populations across the border in neighboring Chinese nature reserves. One of the highly anticipated next steps would be the establishment of a Sino-Russian transboundary nature reserve. WWF recently released rare video footage from China of a family of endangered Amur tigers in the same habitat favored by the critically endangered Amur leopards. Credit to Amurs Russian Far East / Amurs Дальнего Востока России and ThisThingsMustKnow (from youtube) 
This thread is dedicated to the Amur Leopards.
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Capturing the rarest cat in the world
 *This image is copyright of its original author In november, 2006 a team of scientist from the New York based wildlife conservation society captured a 45 kilogram male Leopard in a snare. They were really in the area to study Tigers, but seased the oppertunity to study the Leopard. And it was captured only 32 kilometers from the chinese border. Only one Leopard can do wonders for the studies of these animals. With a very low population (+57) every Leopard is worth its own weight in gold!  *This image is copyright of its original author Some weight records on Amur Leopards. In 2011 the remains of a collared male Leopard was found in the southwest Primorye territory of Siberia. This adult male called Uzor, who was tagged in the fall of 2011. When he was captured, he weighed 62 kgs, and he was in good health at the capture, and was about 5-6 years old. If he was removed of stomach content or not, I don`t know. He was then fitted with a GPS collar. He lived only a short time afterwords, as he was, unfortunatly, killed by poachers. (This male was captured and weighed by THE FAR EASTERN LEOPARD PROJECT, Rus) Here is another 61 kgs Male Leopard. Aswell as a 45 kgs male, which is also a big individual. Some decent sized females aswell.  *This image is copyright of its original author
Amur Leopard predation Primorsky Krai
 *This image is copyright of its original author (This study is containg data given by these four individuals in the table I just posted above) Over the course of snow tracking these Leopards, during the winter months, a WCS team tracking the Leopards found the remains of 20 kills, divided by the four Leopards. The definate majority of the kills were Sika deer (60 %). And very surprisingly roe deer, which many would pursmue to be the more obvious prey species for Leopards, consisted only of (10%) of the kills. The high density og Sika deer in the area might be the explanation. But this is exactly what tigers rely the most on (Sika and Wild Boar), so this puts Leopards directly as a competitor for food with Tigers.  *This image is copyright of its original author Unfortunatly very few species of prey were found, but this starts to paint the picture of what Leopards eat in Siberia, and how opertunistic they are. WCS has also been able to document hunting attempts that failed, by snow tracking. They were able to document 11 hunting attempts, in which 4 were successful. Out of 7 attempts on Sika Deer, only two were successful (29%) Here`s a list of the hunting attemps  *This image is copyright of its original author 
National park "Land of the Leopard":
Let introduce you female Amur leopard Leo 50F! Thats young and smart cat that lives in the "Land of the leopard" National park in Russia near the border with China.  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author
    *This image is copyright of its original author Here are many more fantastic Amur pictures http://www.altaconservation.org/gallery/...-leopards/
National park "Land of the Leopard":
Meet amur leopard Leo 43M, his name is Filippovskiy! He is one of the oldest predators on the "Land of the Leopard", he's about 10 years old.  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author
National park "Land of the Leopard":
Meet Amur leopard Leo 32M named Boy! And although he is not a boy (he is not less than 6 years old, a man in the prime of life by a leopard standards), sometimes he behaves just like a child - somersaults in the grass and, perhaps, purrs. Just like an ordinary cat.  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author
From National park "Land of the Leopard":
"Meet Amur leopard Leo 7F named Nerussa! This female was seen with adolescent kitten – one or one and a half years old Leo 8 and Leo 9 twice in the central part of the national park in 2013. The kittens, though not babies any more, followed their mother keeping close together. Now they are both adult leopards, and their mother travels on the “land of the Leopard” national park alone."  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author "Amur leopard Leo 63F and her cub."  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author
From National park "Land of the Leopard":
"Mist in the "Land of the leopard" national park. So sleepy. Amur leoprad Leo 91M."  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author
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