Date: July 13, 2018
Source: Wildlife Conservation Society
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.
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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