Amur Leopard

• only 60 left

The Amur Leopard is one of the species identified as critically endangered. There are only 60 Amur Leopards left in the world.

Amur leopards are ecologically important for our world and for other creatures. Being predators, they play an important role in maintaining a healthy species balance in their habitat. This influences the state of the forest and the ecosystem that offers food, fresh water and many other resources to people and animals. Other beings, such as Amur tigers or deer, also benefit from the conservation of the Amur leopard’s habitat.

But they are hunted for their beautiful fur… and in addition, they are threatened with habitat loss, having trouble procuring their prey, such as deer, sika deer and hares.

Even though the Amur leopards are mostly silent animals, they sometimes make hoarse sounds to signal their presence or demarcate their territory. Some leopards purr while being fed.

Amur leopards give birth to up to four babies. Some males stay with the females even after mating and help raising the babies, which leave their mothers around the age of a year and a half or two years.