Desertification kills 6000 species per year
(Sunday, February 19th, 2012)
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(Sunday, February 19th, 2012)
(Monday, December 26th, 2011)
A beautiful Russian documentairy video (translated into English) about the Amur Leopard, certainly the leopard species most clearly endagered by the very small number of animals left in the wild (in 1972, it was evaluated that their number was below 40 animals).
more recently, thanks to scientific studies organized by ALTA – Amur Leopard Conservation, it has been shown that their number may be growing very slowly again.
Panthera pardus orientalis Critically Endangered according to the IUCN.
(Sunday, August 7th, 2011)
Fortunately, I am referring to a photo-video trap, not hunters’ traps.
The critically endangered Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis) has been well observed by the WWF-financed counting operation in Kedrovaya Pad Nature Reserve and Leopardoviy Federal Wildlife Refuge (Russia). This is very good news since the species is believed to count only about 50 animals in the wild. But the Russian traps appear to have allowed the observation of nothing less than 12 different individuals (instead of the 6 that were believed to live in the area).
Maybe the Amur leopard population is (very slowly) increasing.
The video shows a female and a grown-up cub, which may be a farily good indication that the reproduction may allow a slow recovery in this very small population of Amur leopards.
(Wednesday, April 13th, 2011)
The Smithsonian, which is in United States of America the largest museum and scientific institution since 1846, recently published on-line a large collection of animal pictures taken by automatic cameras. They reveal a few unknown aspects of the animal behavior (when Man is not there to peep).

(Monday, February 14th, 2011)
Sometimes, cats love more than others.

Pink panther true love
(Wednesday, May 5th, 2010)
WebEcoist assembled some nice photos of the nicest big cats.
(Wednesday, April 14th, 2010)
We knew dogs who loved wind and were hanging out the window of their owner’s car. Here comes their friend the leopard…
(Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009)
Life of a predator is not always easy. When you’re a leopard, you must learn to attack a prey that is small enough not to counter-attack and you must learn to look left and right before rushing in.
(Thursday, October 22nd, 2009)
This photo is part of a set published on The Big Picture by Alan Taylor.
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