This book is dedicated to all the people around the world that are making strides to help protect these beautiful and amazing creatures.

Getting to Know the Amur Leopard
Imagine that you are walking through one of the temperate forests of Russia. It is mid autumn, and the trees are filled with beautiful red, yellow, and brown leaves. You hear the animals scurrying as you walk through their home. Then, off in the distance, you see her. A mother Amur Leopard and her cubs. You’re taken aback by the beautiful and powerful predator, as they proudly roam their home. You watch in bewilderment until the creatures pass out of your sight.
The amur leopard is the northernmost leopard species, habitating the temperate, mixed, and broadleaf forests of the China-Russia border. This species of leopard, like all predatory wildcats, is a carnivore. They depend on various species of deer, hares, and badgers for food. In turn, this leopard plays a critical role in preventing the overpopulation of their prey species. With a jump measuring 10 vertical feet and 19 horizontal feet, it is no wonder why this species is such an effective predator.
Unfortunately, having the opportunity to see these animals in their natural habitat is becoming more and more of a rarity. According to biologists, the population of Amur Leopard species has dropped by at least 90% in the wild. This means that it is considered “critically endangered” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Currently it is believed that there are scarcely more than 60 individual Amur leopards left in the wild.
Poaching:
How Does It Affect These Animals?
Poaching is the illegal hunting of animals. Parts of the amur leopard’s habitat are located close to human villages and settlements, making the areas accessible to poaching. Leopard skins can be illegally sold, and range in price from $500 to $1000. These poachers can use snares or other traps to capture the leopards, or can use other conventional hunting techniques.
Poaching of leopards is a large contributor to their critically endangered status. Poaching removes these leopards from the wild and further decreases their, already alarmingly low, population number. This practice not only damages the leopard number, but leads to a disproportionate rise of the leopard’s prey species. When population numbers are skewed in this manner, it poses a threat to the overall environment and could lead to ecological collapse.
Protected Areas:
They Can Save Lives
Government legislation can be enacted to label amur leopard territories as conservation areas, or national parks. These parks would be monitored by rangers with the capability to look for, and put a stop to, any and all illegal poaching activities.
Protecting the amur leopard’s habitat in this manner would dissuade poaching, and in turn help put a stop to it. Firstly, snares or other traps set up to capture amur leopards have a much greater chance of being found and disarmed by rangers before they can inflict harm. The removal of such entrapments would decrease the number of amur leopards who are killed by these illegal poaching activities.
Secondly, rangers patrolling these conservation areas would also increase the chances of illegal poachers being found before they have the chance to harm these leopards. Creation and monitoring of these conservation areas is one effective way to put a stop to illegal poaching.
In order for this to be done, the first step is to enact government legislation to classify the amur leopard’s habitat as protected conservation areas. This can be achieved by mass public support through petitions. The next step would be to train and assign rangers to patrol these areas with their conservation goals in mind. In this way, protected land for the amur leopards would be established and maintained.
Forest Fires:
Destroying The Natural Habitats
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This book is dedicated to all the people around the world that are making strides to help protect these beautiful and amazing creatures.

Getting to Know the Amur Leopard
Imagine that you are walking through one of the temperate forests of Russia. It is mid autumn, and the trees are filled with beautiful red, yellow, and brown leaves. You hear the animals scurrying as you walk through their home. Then, off in the distance, you see her. A mother Amur Leopard and her cubs. You’re taken aback by the beautiful and powerful predator, as they proudly roam their home. You watch in bewilderment until the creatures pass out of your sight.
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