Sergei Ivanov is the curator of the Far Eastern leopard preservation programme; he also chairs the board of trustees of the Eurasian Centre for the Study, Preservation and Rehabilitation of the Leopard Population, an independent non-profit organisation

September 8, 2011, saw a long-awaited event – high-tech satellite collar was placed on a local leopard for future tracking

Following the tagging, Vyacheslav Rozhnov spoke about some of the Far Eastern leopard surveying methods employed at the Institute of Ecology and Evolution he heads. He said the first results were likely to come in 2-2.5 years

Sergei Ivanov offering watches to Wildlife Preserve personnel, along with encouragement for their conservation efforts. He then spoke with the preserve’s head, Sergei Khokhryakov, about projects aimed at promoting tourism, including through the creation of special tourist trails and proper infrastructure

Wildlife Preserve personnel talk about some of the most acute problems, particularly poaching

This leopard, named Slavyanka, has been tagged with a Glonass/GPS/Argos satellite transmitter, allowing researchers to track the animal in real time using satellite maps

Leopard Wildlife Preserve was set up in 2008. It incorporated two old preserves, Barsovy and Borisovskoye Plato, with the grounds totaling more than 169,000 hectares

A young Himalayan bear got caught in a trap on September 6. Local scientists sedated her for a medical evaluation and then sent her back into the wild