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Amur leopard Protection - progress report June 1999
1999 Full Book
This is the second progress report of Tigris Foundation, about our conservation projects for the Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis). In this report we present our results for 1998 and the first quarter of 1999. The anti-poaching team for the protection of the Amur leopard got off to a very successful start. In the first 16 months a total of 56 rifles were confiscated from poachers in Khasan, the region where most of the surviving Amur leopards live. Poaching has been brought down to a level where it no longer forms a serious threat to the leopards and the ungulate populations on which they feed. At present a full-color educational book about the Amur leopard is being published. It will be distributed to schoolchildren in Khasan. In February 1998 the leopard team assisted in a count organized by the Hornocker Wildlife Institute and Russian scientists. The results provide grounds for optimism. A total of 40-44 leopards and 14-18 tigers were counted. Before this count it was believed that only about 30 leopards and 8 tigers were resident in the area.
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