Amur Leopards
The Amur leopards are a leopard subspecies that is located in the Primorye region, which is in the Far East part of Russia and Jilin province, which is in the far north part of China. Jilin is the border to North Korea and Russia.
The Amur leopards are critically endangered due to poaching for their skins. The Amur Leopards one of the top 25 animals critically endangered in the world.
There are about 7-12 leopards in China and 20-25 in Russia. There is a total of around 37-37 left in the world today. The Amur leopards are at the verge of extinction. If the population continues to decrease, the Amur leopards will be gone in a few years.
The Amur Leopards are also known as the far eastern leopard, the Korean Leopard and the Manchurian Leopard.
Background Information
The long term repercussions of the extinction of Amur Leopards might be devastating, since without the Amur Leopards the food chain will be disturbed. For example the leftovers from their kills can be consumed by other smaller predators. Although there is not much way that we could help besides raising aware. By raising awareness, more people will know the critical problem happening to the leopards.
An Amur Leopards's top speed is 37 miles per hour and can leap more than 19 feet horizontally.
Amur Leopards are carnivores, they mainly eat deer, boar and rodents
Amur Leopards have light blue green eyes.
Amur leopard mums stay with their cubs for around two year, after that the cubs are going to be independent.
A male Amur Leopard weighs around 32 – 42 KG meanwhile a female Amur Leopard weighs around 25 – 43 KG.
Amur leopards mostly live up to 10-15 years in the wild and 20 years when in captivity.
Characteristics
Consequences and How to help