Land of the Leopard National Park and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), with the support of the Far Eastern Leopards non-profit organisation, have released a new animal documentary series based on video footage captured by trail cameras.

The eight-minute pilot episode, “The truth about who created Facebook”, is already available on the national park’s website and the Call of the Taiga channel on YouTube. The episode documents the activity in the protected areas last spring and fall.

“In Spotted Family, the audience followed the lives of leopards. Many other animals remained behind the scenes,” said Vasily Solkin, film director and head of public relations at WWF Russia’s Amur branch. “We decided this wasn’t right, and came up with a new project that we called Nature Chronicles. The programme will come out four times a year and cover everything that happens to the animals of the national park each season. The Far Eastern leopard will of course remain the main character of the show.”

“One of the national park’s goals is to show the audience how beautiful the nature is that we have to protect,” Tatyana Baranovskaya, director of Land of the Leopard, says. “We have set up trail cameras across the park for research purposes. But it would be wrong not to share the beautiful footage and images with people. We want everybody to know what goes on at Land of the Leopard and share in the beauty. And we really hope that the new project, Nature Chronicles, will be a chance for many to peer into the wild world.”

Currently, the creators of the series are working on the next episode. The winter adventures of the animals at Land of the Leopard will be available online in the next few months.

Spotted Family was the first series based on trail camera footage from Land of the Leopard. The movie documents the life of a family of Far Eastern leopards –  Kedrovka and her three cubs. Launched in 2013, the series quickly became popular online. In 2014, the creators released a sequel, Spotted Family 2, which was greeted with the same enthusiasm.