Amur leopards???

Question

there are only 35 siberian leopards left in the wild!!do u know any organisation or programme dedicated to rescuing these critically endangered animals?

Answer 1

Yes... isn't is sad to know that there's only these many left and out of these i think there are only 5 female as 1 female was shot by hunters! Anyways, check out these sites. They are about the organizations dedicated for the conservation of amur leopards.

http://www.amur-leopard.org/

http://www.tigrisfoundation.nl/cms/publi...

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

In 2003, I worked at a zoo called Marwell (in hampshire)

They conserved Amur leopards, at the time there was only 33 in the wild, they spent 500,000 pounds on building a new enclosure for the pair they were breeding from.

Anyway, the time came when they had to transport the amur's over, first they took over the female and put her in the enclosure, but she found a hole in the roof of the enc. and escaped, the marksmen had to tranquilize her with a gun, but she fell out of the tree and impaled herself on a branch and died. The male that was left back in the other enclosure ate the females offspring, and as he didn't have anyone else to mate with they had to transfer him to another zoo.

What a bunch of losers. Anyway:

In reference to your question, yes there are quite a few left in captivity, more than 35. If you google 'amur leopard conservation' you should get a list of organisations that help. then you should find the answer.

Answer 3

The Amur leopard has been systematically hunted out of most of its former range for its coat and for the bones that are used in Traditional Chinese Medicine. The local ungulates that make up the majority of this leopard's prey have also been greatly depleted, leading the leopards to concentrate on domestic livestock, including farmed deer, and therefore inciting further persecution. The tiny population that survives today is under extreme risk of extinction; genetic variation is low in small populations and they are extremely vulnerable to any chance event such as an epidemic or large wild fire. Poaching remains a threat in Russia and annual wild fires rage through the area. In addition, a variety of proposed economic development, including the building of an oil pipeline, threatens the last wilderness refuge of these big cats.

NGOs such as Phoenix, supported by funds from the Tigris Foundation, AMUR and the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), carry out anti-poaching patrols, firefighting and education programmes as well as providing compensation funds for local livestock. Population monitoring and ecological studies are spearheaded by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) working with Russian scientists. An area in China's Jilin province has recently been set aside for the creation of a National Park, in order to safeguard the remnant population there. Moscow Zoo and the London Zoological Society oversee the captive breeding programme, which provides funds for conservation projects and acts as a reservoir of replacement stock for the wild should it be so needed. But there is still a huge amount of work to be done to prevent the imminent extinction of the Amur leopard.