LONDON: What is possibly the world’s most endangered cat is clawing its way back from the edge of extinction.
The number of Amur – or Siberian – leopards in the wild appears to have made a significant recovery in recent years, following efforts by Russian and Chinese authorities to protect them.
New figures made available by Russia’s Land of The Leopard National Park and Beijing Normal University say that about 80 exist in the wild, almost double earlier estimates.
A statement from the Land of The Leopard National Park, quoted in The Siberian Times, said: “The scientists shared some of the monitoring material at a meeting held in the Land of Leopard National Park’s Vladivostok office.
“The count of unique animals showed that the world population of the Far Eastern leopard was at least 80 animals.”
The majority of the animals are in Russian territory, but Chinese researchers have recently spotted about 10 animals in China using photo-monitoring equipment.
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