Land of the Leopard National Park is set to expand its network of trail cameras for monitoring wild animals by adding at least 5 new stations. In addition, the Ussuri Nature Reserve, which is managed by Land of the Leopard, will also get new trail cameras.

“We strive to regularly expand the network of trail cameras by adding new monitoring stations. This enables us to observe how rare animals behave and obtain new data about them from a larger territory. Wild animals do not know borders and move freely within their habitats. We must take this into consideration and be flexible when designing our photo observation network,” said Viktor Storozhuk, researcher at Land of the Leopard science department.

The new photo monitoring stations will be installed along roads to collect data on how the Amur tiger behaves. Having observed these striped predators for many years, researchers know that they often appear on unpaved roads and move along them to bypass wind felled trees and thick shrubs.

For Land of the Leopard, the photo monitoring network is the main tool when it comes to studying rare wild cats. More than 400 trail cameras “keep a close eye” on 110 Far Eastern leopards on its territory.