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Amur Leopard Population in Russia Up 50% – WWF

21:35 15/03/2013

The population of the Amur leopard has grown by half since 2007 and the cats have expanded their habitat as far as North Korea, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) said on Friday.

‘Falcon Case’ Exposes Russia’s Wildlife Drain
17:37 07/12/2012
The Russian authorities scored a high-profile success when they intercepted 49 rare falcons destined for two Arab sheikhs’ birdhouses, but the rate at which rare species are trafficked out of the country remains dangerously high, environmentalists say.
Amur Leopard: The Cat That Should Have Died
14:54 18/09/2012
It all began when then-Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov saw a movie about leopards.1
Amur Leopard National Park Opens in Far East
22:04 10/04/2012
A 261,000-acre national park in Russia's Far East created to protect Amur leopards began operating this week, presidential chief of staff Sergei Ivanov said.
Experts probe death of rare Amur leopard in Russia’s Far East
06:13 05/01/2012
A team of Russian conservation experts have launched a probe into the death of a rare Amur leopard, one of only an estimated 40 left in the wild, in a natural reserve in the country’s Primorye Territory, a spokesman for the Russian Academy of Sciences’ wildlife study project said on Thursday.

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