Study finds 84 highly endangered Amur leopards remain in China and Russia
7/13/2018 12:00:00 PM
Scientists estimate there are only 84 remaining highly endangered Amur leopards (Panthera pardus orientalis)
remaining in the wild across its current range along the southernmost border of Primorskii Province
in Russia and Jilin Province of China [Credit: Emmanual Rondeau]
This new estimate of the Amur leopard population was recently reported in the scientific journal, Conservation Letters by scientists from China, Russia, and the United States. The scientists combined forces to collate information from camera traps on both sides of the border of China and Russia to derive the estimate. Because there are no records of leopards in other parts of its former range, this estimate represents the total global population of this subspecies in the wild.
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