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| Breitenmoser, U.; Askerov, E.; Soofi, M.; Breitenmoser-Wrsten, C.; Heidelberg, A.; Manvelyan, K.; Zazanashvili, N. | |
| Transboundary leopard conservation in the Lesser Caucasus and the Alborz Range | |
| 2017 Cat News (65): 24-25 | |
Recent discovery of leopard reproduction in two sites at the south-western rim of the Lesser Caucasus and the Talysh Mountains give hope for a recovery of this regionally Critically Endangered large cat. Increasing fragmentation of the entire range of the Persian leopard _Panthera pardus tulliana _may however hamper the natural recolonisation of the Caucasus. The revision and update of the _Strategy for the Conservation of the Leopard in the Caucasus Ecoregion_, scheduled for April 2017, should hence emphasise the importance of the transboundary connectivity of suitable habitat and healthy prey populations across the Caucasus and with neighbouring mountain ranges. |
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