Amur Leopards
The Amur leopard once ranged across northern China and southern areas of the Russian Far East, but is now found only in a small part of southwest Primorskii Krai in Russia. Because it is adapted to the snowy winters there, it has a thicker, paler coat than leopards in Africa or India do.
Its remaining wild population is estimated at only 30-35 individuals.
Amur Leopard Conservation
The Amur leopards existing population is threatened by forest loss through fires that are deliberately set each spring, by economic development and by people hunting both the leopard and the deer and other species it needs for food.
ALTA
ZSL is part of the Amur Leopard and Tiger Alliance (ALTA). The ALTA website provides information about the Amur leopard and about its leopard conservation projects. ALTA has decided to dedicate this website to the Amur leopard because it receives, in general, much less attention than its famous cousin, the Amur tiger!
Follow the team!
Learn more about ZSL's work in the Russian Far East by reading this blog, written by Misha, a local vet and ZSL team member, and viewing these photostories from our work in the field in Russia.
Read Misha's Russian Far East blog
Photostory about the first ever Amur leopard cam-trap photos at a livestock kill.
The Russian Far East
Wildlife Health Project
To protect both Amur leopards and tigers, ZSL conducts a wildlife health project, which provides veterinary training, a diagnostic laboratory, and biological sample collection in order to set a baseline for future disease monitoring work.
Amur Tiger
The Amur tiger is one of the largest living cats on the planet. Increased poaching and habitat loss over the past decade have once again caused Amur tiger numbers to fall. ZSL has been trying to reverse and protect Amur tigers since 1995 and has been running its own project in Lazovsky State Nature Reserve since 2006.
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