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24/10/2018

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17/07/2018

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10/07/2018

Amur tiger walked out on highway near the borders of the “Land of the Leopard”!
The rare shot of Amur tiger was obtained by a car enthusiast who was driving along the borders of the “Land of the Leopard”. The specialists of the national park investigated the footage sent over by the witness and concluded that the predator’s behavior provides no issues for concern.
The footage was taken at highway of the central part of the national park. Wild animal tried to cross the road when it was taken aback. Stopped on the roadside, the predator anxiously observed the human who was hailing from the car, and then hurried to disappear into forest. The footage-maker was apparently excited to meet the Red Book cat. He passionately filmed all that was happening on a mobile phone camera, accompanying action with enthusiastic comments and requests for “smile” from the animal.
Thanks to this shot, the employees of the “Land of the Leopard” were able to identify the individual. The comparison of a pattern of stripes on skin with patterns from all known tigers in the national park has shown that it was the young female T 6F, who was met by human. Previously she has been already registered via photomonitoring in the national park.
According to specialists, the tigress acted totally reasonable, reacting to human voice and trying to carefully hide from view.

06/07/2018

On the photo for the first time: at once three leopards from one litter become adults!
The specialists of the “Land of the Leopard” have registered an intriguing case. For the first time in
observational history of Amur leopards they managed to obtain the photo of kittens from family with
many cubs, all of which have survived and turned to adulthood. The heroic mother, female Leo 37F
named Umka, have succeeded to raise three cubs at once.
New data were obtained in the national park via the photomonitoring network. Around 400 trail cameras
are used to observe the life of rarest large cats in the world. Some years ago the pictures of female with
three half-year-old kittens were obtained, which on its own account was a pretty rare thing. And now the
recent check of cameras have brought a pleasant surprise again.
In wildlife not many of animal cubs, including predators, survive, so these pictures are really unique. The
life of young animals is highly hazardous. Even a nurturance of experienced mother does not ensure the
preservation of overall leopard litter. But Umka mastered maternal responsibilities: she procured food,
defended litter from enemies and taught it all necessary for survival things. Following that, the grown
kittens have successfully dealt with challenges of the most dangerous period – the beginning of
independent life.

22/06/2018

21/06/2018

The first photo of nursing Amur leopardess! The specialists of the “Land of the Leopard” for the first time ever managed to capture the Amur leopardess nursing her cubs in the wild. The researchers were especially interested in the age of the young cubs still feeding on their mother’s milk.
The leopardess caught on trail camera is Leo 120F, daughter of leopardess named Pamela (Leo 38F), accompanied by her two cubs. The unique photos depict the family quietly relaxing in the sanctuary forest for several hours. The leopardess shows parental care by tenderly licking her cubs, even when one of them is trying to attach itself to the mother’s teat.
The cubs on the photo are about six months old – this is just about the time when young leopards completely stop feeding on the mother’s milk. By this time, their main food is meat procured by their mother’s hunt. And still, at the time of family relaxation, mama leopard allowed her grown-up cub to get some milk. The reasons were the relaxed state and good physique of the predatoress.

15/06/2018

😸 Meet Amur leopard Leo 91M! 😸
This is still the nameless male, who recently began his adult life. Now he is about 3 years old. We met this leopard in 2016, when he was just a teenager, now he is sending his "regards" in the form of new pictures two times in each year. From a young man Leo 91M turned into a serious male - true owner of his territory 🐆💪 Now he probably chooses a bride 💕

13/06/2018

An Amur leopard cub, his mother and possible father were caught on camera in the same area of the Kedrovaya Pad Nature Reserve for the first time. The mother is the unnamed Leo 120F, a daughter of the leopardess Pamela.

This was recorded from an observation point at the reserve shows the cub first. He examines a small hill, looks around and swiftly runs away. From the way the leaves rustle, it is clear that his mother is close by, but she appears in front of the camera only an hour later. She sniffs the ground and soon goes away. And, finally, the camera spots a male leopard. Land of the Leopard employees recognised him as Typhoon, the master of Kedrovaya Pad.

"Kedrovaya Pad is no larger than a male Far Eastern leopard's home range. As of today, Typhoon is the only male leopard living here, while females' home ranges can overlap, with three or four leopardesses living here, at the reserve. This time, we were lucky to find out that there is another cat family at Kedrovaya Pad: this is a truly joyful event!" said Yevgenia Bisikalova, deputy director for research at Land of the Leopard.

Since Typhoon is the only male leopard in the area, researchers believe he fathered Leo 120F's cub. There is also another leopardess called Bary living in the nature reserve. She was seen with Typhoon several times; these encounters resulted in two cubs that were first recorded last spring.

06/06/2018

Unique pictures of two Amur leopard pairing in the wild! For the first time in the history of studies those rare animals. All thanks to Leopard Land National Park camera trap.

31/05/2018

50 salt licks to appear at Leopard Land! We were putting out salt for hoofed animals since April, with 50 salt licks to be in place by the end of May. A total of 10 tonnes of large-grained salt purchased for these biotechnical purposes will be distributed in clay soil areas throughout the national park.

After dissolving in water and permeating the soil, salt will be a welcome treat for ungulates. These animals need salt for proper horn formation. Deer and sika deer antlers start growing in spring.

One of the salt licks during the latest spring feeding campaign was made by the press secretaries of nature reserves and representatives of major Russian media as part of a special seminar for the press services of protected areas, held at Land of the Leopard from 21 to 25 May.

28/05/2018

Female Amur leopard injured by poachers gave birth to young ones! Trail cameras in the National Park “Land of the Leopard” registered an unexpected recruitment to a family of rarest feline animals listed in Red Book. The camera captured Aleksa, an Amur female leopard miraculously surviving after being caught in a trap set by poachers in China, with a cub.

The spotted predator under the number of Leo 27F was caught in a metallic snare trap in 2014 when it left its homeland and crossed the Russia-China border. This sharp hunting gear inflicted it a bleeding wound. When the “Land of the Leopard” specialists saw it on pictures taken by trail cameras, they were sure there was no chance for its survival.

However, in 2016 the injured leopardess was registered by cameras again and this time with two cubs.

So, Aleksa was lucky to release itself from the deadly grip of the snare trap receiving a large scar, find a mating partner and give birth to cubs. Demonstrating such strong will to live, it became of focus of researchers’ close attention.

An important question was outstanding – whether that injury will affect Leo 27F’s health and hunting skills and whether it will be able to provide feed for its offspring.

All doubts were dispelled during the last check of trail cameras. It turned out that Aleksa had given birth to another Amur leopard cub. The automatic camera shows how the leopardess guides its new cub across the reserved forest and that the cub is in excellent condition as well as its mother.

Female Amur leopard injured by poachers gAave birth to young ones! C in the National Park “Land of the Leopard” registered an unexpected recruitment to a family of rarest feline animals listed in Red Book. The camera captured Aleksa, an Amur female leopard miraculously surviving after being caught in a trap set by poachers in China, with a cub.

16/05/2018

Rare vultures are growing in number on the “Land of the Leopard” together with felines! Our specialists have obtained a set of interesting and scientifically valuable photographs of the biggest birds of Russia. A large group of black vultures was being recorded by a trail camera on a regular basis during two weeks. It gave reasons for scientists to suppose that the population, that overcame mass mortality in the past, is starting to grow, following the leopards.

Black vultures are rightfully called natural sanitarians: they never hunt for alive animals and consider themselves satisfied with carrion or remnants of somebody else’s meal. At the time of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, they were attracted to Primorye by dead hoofed animals, that were bred on deer farms in vast numbers. Closure of such farm units at the end of the XX century resulted in starvation and mass mortality of these Red Book animals.

For this very reason the fact that over ten vultures got in front of the camera at once was of interest to specialists. These rare birds haven’t been frequently caught in the lens of the “Land of the Leopard” cameras in groups before. As reported by ornithologists, in recent years only about 200-250 vultures nestling in Asian countries fly to the south-western part of Primorye for wintering.

The “Land of the Leopard” is a home for the Amur leopard core population. Probably, scavengers, such as black vultures, grow in number together with the planet rarest large-sized felines.

25/04/2018

BREAKING NEWS
The number of the rarest felines on the Land of the Leopard has increased! National Park scientific employees have finished the processing of data obtained from the Amur leopard photomonitoring conducted in 2017. According to the results, 84 adult spotty predators and 19 cubs were documented on the specially protected natural territory within the previous year.

An Amur leopard is the rarest large-sized feline on the planet. Census held in the beginning of 2000s indicated that there were only 30 of these predators in the wild nature, and many scientists didn’t believe that it was possible to recover their population. However, despite that, the work on the rare predator conservation was undertaken.

“We had positive expectations, and since 2012, the time of the National Park “Land of the Leopard” foundation, the number of the planet rarest large-sized feline has significantly increased”, Sergey Donskoy, the head of the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment of Russia, emphasized.

The first years of the institution existence showed its operational efficiency: in 2015 about 70 Amur leopards were documented in Russia.

As of today, the main method of the Amur leopard wild population research is photomonitoring. About 400 automatic cameras function on the territory of the National Park. This is the largest network of this kind in Russia. The work on trail cameras checking and the processing of all data obtained within 2017 took several months. The results were repeatedly checked with the help of special programs and announced for the first time on April 05, 2018, the day of the sixth anniversary of FSBI “Land of the Leopard” foundation.

According to the experts, last year 84 Amur leopard mature adults and 19 cubs, 7 of whom were juveniles, were documented on the territory of the National Park “Land of the Leopard” and “Kedrovaya Pad” Reserve. It is important that in science only data concerning adult animals is used in order to estimate their number because of heavy mortality among cubs in wild nature. However, the documented number of adult leopards indicates the growth of population of these felines.

“Growth of the number of the documented leopards can be explained by two main factors”, Gleb Sedash, senior researcher of FSBI “Land of the Leopard”, clarifies. “They are the expansion of the monitored area on the territory of the National Park and the growth of the predator population. In 2017 the number of monitoring stations was increased and the number of felines that had been documented on the previous stations increased together with it. In particular, during the time of census many of the leopards that were cubs in the previous year were captured on camera. In general, the quantity of the photos, as well as the quantity of felines, has increased, and this is good news.”

The National Park “Land of the Leopard” is a core area for the spotty feline wild population. Predators are protected from poachers and don’t have problems concerning food here: extra nutrition of the hoofed animals in the National Park makes provision for the high density of deer and roe deer. Along with that, according to the experts' opinion, for now an unknown number of leopards probably live beyond the specially protected natural territory as well. To confirm this fact, the Scientific Department of the institution is waiting for the data from colleagues in People's Republic of China, on the territory of which rare felines were documented as well.
National Park “Land of the Leopard” expresses gratitude to the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), “Far Eastern Leopards” Autonomous Non-Profit Organization and Amur branch of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) of Russia for the photomonitoring organization and data processing.

25/04/2018

The number of the rarest felines on the Land of the Leopard has increased! National Park scientific employees have finished the processing of data obtained from the Amur leopard photomonitoring conducted in 2017. According to the results, 84 adult spotty predators and 19 cubs were documented on the specially protected natural territory within the previous year.

23/04/2018

Мы сделали это вместе! 💪 Границы «Земли леопарда» очищены от мусорных свалок. "Двери" в дом дальневосточного леопарда стали чище после генеральной уборки в селе Филипповка, расположенном у границ нацпарка 🐆 Против мусорных свалок выступили местные жители, волонтеры и целые организации, которые приняли участие в масштабном субботнике и помогли природе вздохнуть свободнее. 🌲

17/04/2018

A rare vulture with a mark from Mongolia has been recorded in Primorye for the first time! A trail camera of the National Park “Land of the Leopard” has captured a marked black vulture for the first time in the monitoring history. Both wings of the bird were “decorated” with big labels with a number 17. In the course of the scientific “investigation” it became clear that the predator was marked 12 years ago in a Mongolian natural reserve.

Vultures get caught in the lens of trail photo- and video cameras of the “Land of the Leopard” from time to time. However, not so long ago specialists of the National Park got surprised after finding out the video with the rare feathered predator with two big white marks on its wings. In order to puzzle out where the bird could get such a “decoration”, the recording was passed to the leading ornithologists of Primorye.

Scientists identified at once that the marks had been made abroad, and got ready for a long searching of their owners. However, the solution came surprisingly fast. With the assistance of the Siberian ornithologist Igor Fefelov, specialists almost immediately managed to find one of the participants of the captured vulture marking, the American ornithologist Richard Reading.
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