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Rare Leopard Footage from Siberia
A camera trap in the Kedrovaya Pad reserve in Siberia has captured rare footage of some of the world's most endangered cats. Eight Far Eastern Leopards were photographed in the reserve, located in the Primorsky Krai area, during a census being conducted by WWF-Russia and the Institute for Sustainable Use of Nature Resources.
Pavel Fomenko, coordinator of the biodiversity conservation program at the Armur branch of WWF-Russia, said: the confirmed stability of the leopard population living in the territories of Kedrovaya Pad biosphere reserve and Barsovyi wildlife refuge warm our hearts and give hopes. But this is only a small part of the leopard's habitat in the southwest Primorsky. The remaining 70 per cent of leopard's habitat are in precarious conditions.
Over the past years, scientists have been monitoring the rare cat's plight using camera traps to develop effective measures to its conservation. The above image is copyright WWF-Russia, ISUNR.
As tigers and leopards' colouration is individual, the pictures are a way to compare and identify specimens. The information we receive from camera traps can be processed through mathematic methods. So, by comparing the different photographs taken at different intervals, we can estimate the real number of leopards living in a certain area , said Vladimir Aramilev, Head of the Institute for Sustainable Use of Nature Resources.
Further info: Endangered Leopards
Websites: WWF
WWF-Russia
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