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Critically Endangered Amur Leopards Reach Record Density in Russia

By amyvangelderBlog, WCS RussiaNo Comments

In a remote region of Russia’s Far East, something extraordinary is happening: the world’s rarest big cat is making a recovery. In 2024, conservationists with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and...

24th June 2025

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A brown bear gets too close to a camera trap for comfort. Photo © ANO WCS.

Bears, Woodpeckers, and the Forest Crime Spree You Didn’t See Coming

By amyvangelderBlog, WCS RussiaNo Comments

By Ekaterina Igorievna Nikolaeva, Wildlife Data Specialist, ANO WCS Every spring, at the end of the camera trapping season, we return to the forest to retrieve our cameras. For us,...

27th April 2025

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In Search of ‘Amour’: The Tale of Amur Tiger Romance

By amyvangelderBlog, WCS RussiaNo Comments

This Valentine's Day, we spotlight an extraordinary story from the Russian Far East: the journey of two Amur tigers, Boris and Svetlaya. Their remarkable reunion, following Boris’s 120-mile trek, offers...

14th February 2025

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Habitat accessibility and snares impact large cats and their prey in Northeast Tiger and Leopard National Park, China

By amyvangelderConservation Papers, WCS China, WCS Russia

Abstract: Snares have become a widespread hunting technique, with their indiscriminate nature jeopardizing terrestrial large carnivores. The lack of reliable data on snare distribution hampers an accurate evaluation of the...

26th December 2023

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Millennia with tigers: Indigenous people of the Russian Far East

By amyvangelderBlog, WCS Russia

Indigenous Primorye people share a historic bond with tigers evident in material culture and folklore. Carvings from II-I millennium B.C. in Khabarovsk depict this enduring connection, especially among Udegei, Orochis,...

5th October 2023

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Amur tiger neighbours: Friend or foe? Exploring community attitudes towards coexistence

By amyvangelderBlog, WCS Russia

The Sikhote-Alin mountain range houses three protected areas, with the Sikhote-Alin Biosphere Reserve being the largest, covering 4% of Amur tiger habitat. The region has limited infrastructure and a sparse...

27th September 2023

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Amur leopard reintroduction Image credit: "Дальневосточные леопарды"

One small step for 3 Amur leopards, one giant leap for the rarest big cat species

By amyvangelderAmur leopard, Blog, WCS Russia

In a remarkable effort to restore the population of Amur leopards, a ground-breaking Amur leopard reintroduction program has been initiated. Three of these magnificent creatures have been relocated from the...

16th June 2023

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Meet Anna, first recipient of the WildCats Professional Development Award

By estherconwayNews, WCS Russia

WildCats Conservation Alliance are delighted to announce the first recipient of the WildCats Professional Development Award as a legacy of the WildCats 2022 Year of the Tiger campaign. Anna Klevtcova...

9th May 2023

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Meet the tiger family defying the odds in Russia

By amyvangelderBlog, News, WCS Russia

This year, for the first time in nearly two decades, an adult tiger was observed with four cubs in southwest Primorski Kray! Here Aleksandr Rybin, field crew leader for WCS’s...

22nd June 2022

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Population monitoring in the Russian Far East

By amyvangelderNews, WCS Russia

For nearly twenty years, WCS Russia has sought to institutionalise rigorous methods of population monitoring in the Russian Far East. In their half-yearly interim report, the team based at Land...

13th August 2021

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Amur leopard conservation

By estherconwayAmur leopard, News, WCS Russia

WCS in Russia (ANO WCS) want to secure the future for Amur leopards and tigers in Southwest Primorye and neighbouring lands of Jilin Province in China. One way that they...

5th May 2021

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Monitoring Amur leopards in the Russian Far East – Interim report 2015

By WCS Russia

We identified six objectives within the scope of this grant to achieve our goal of developing a yearly monitoring program for the entire Amur leopard population using a rigorous survey...

15th June 2015

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