In the past decade of the Far Eastern leopard surveying, the main attention has been paid to population monitoring using various approaches based on traditional methods such as track counts and camera traps

According to the most optimistic estimates, the world’s Far Eastern leopard population is 40, with 30 leopards presumably dwelling in the Primprye Territory, and the remaining ten in China

Leopard hunting was officially banned in 1956, but the expansion of agriculture, especially reindeer breeding, in leopard-populated areas destabilised the population

The programme is aimed at developing a scientific foundation for the conservation and rehabilitation of the Far Eastern leopard population within its natural habitat in Russia’s Far East

The programme has been developed by the Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the RAS in association with the Soil Biology Institute, the Pacific Institute of Geography, and the natural preserve Ussuriisky. The latter three establishments are affiliated with the RAS Far Eastern branch

Programme for the Study, Preservation and Rehabilitation of the Far Eastern Leopard in the Russian Far East is being implemented as an individual project within the framework of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ (RAS) standing expedition for endangered animal species listed in the Red Book