[nukkad] Fwd: Rarest Big Cat Caught in Camera

["Anantha Narayanan" <>]

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Eight critically endangered Amur leopards (including the animal above) have
been photographed by a camera trap in far southeastern Russia.

Fewer than 40 Amurs—also called Far Eastern leopards—still prowl the
temperate forests of Russia's Far East and parts of China, making the Amur
the world's rarest big cat.

[image: http://earthisours.blogspot.com] <http://earthisours.blogspot.com/>

Eight of the animals were captured on film in the Primorskiy region of
Russia, which borders China and North Korea, during a recent census.

The research was conducted by the conservation group WWF and a local
nonprofit, the Institute for Sustainable Use of Natural Resources.

"The confirmed stability of the leopard population … warm[s] our hearts and
give[s] hope," Pavel Fomenko of WWF Russia said in a statement.

"But this is only a small part of the leopard's habitat in the southwest
Primorskiy. The remaining 70 percent of the leopard's habitat [is] in
precarious condition," Fomenko added.

Though the Russian government adopted a conservation strategy for the
predator in 1998, poaching driven by an illegal trade in leopard parts is
still a threat, according to WWF.

The conservation group has supported anti-poaching activities and tried to
increase the population of hoofed prey species in the leopard's habitat.

"The goal of utmost importance is to create a unified federal protected area
for the leopard," Fomenko said, "[and that] has not yet been achieved in
Primorskiy."

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http://earthisours.blogspot.com/2008/05/rarest-big-cat-caught-in-camera.html

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