Help Save Last 30 Amur Leopards from Extinction

In January, the South team conducted 24 anti-poaching patrols on the territory of the Land of the Leopard National Park. Patrols were conducted both during the daytime and at night, mostly on the southern part of the protected area. Sometimes, the team also visited central and northern parts of the national park to reveal...

In October, the patrol work was generally conducted on the assigned southern territories of the Land of the Leopard National Park (LLNP). The team also patrolled northern and central parts of the PA. Some of the patrols were carried out with the involvement of operative employees of border troops, Primorsky Fishery...

In July, the South team carried out 27 anti-poaching patrols. When patrolling on the assigned area, the inspectors revealed the following violations: On July 8, two men were detained in Leopardovy WR for violating the article 8.39 of Administrative Offences Code of the Russian Federation, i.e. violating rules for protection...

In June, the South team of the Land of the Leopard protected area conducted 23 anti-poaching patrols in order to prevent and detect any crimes in the protected area and adjacent territories. Most of patrols were carried out on the southern part of Leopardovy Wildlife Refuge and south-western part of Kedrovaya Pad Nature...

In May for the first time the Boarder team of Leopardovy Wildlife Refuge actually worked behind engineering structures of the Russian-Chinese boarder. The area is a habitat of the Amur leopards and its protection from Chinese poachers is a highest priority for the law-enforcement team. Although there were difficulties that...

Good news for everyone who stands for Amur leopard protection! On April 5th, at the meeting of the Russian Geographical Society in Saint Petersburg Prime-minister Putin announced creation of the new protected area, which will cover 60% of all remaining habitat of the Amur leopard. By resolution of the government of the...

Spring fire-hazardous season began in Khasan district early this year. The ignition started on March 20 near the borders of the protected leopard habitat made everyone worried. For three days 2 brigades of 7 people - employees of the Kedrovaya Pad Nature Reserve and volunteer team, both supported by Phoenix Fund -...

Th year 2012 started with an intense work of the South anti-poaching team that patrolled the core leopard breeding area. In total in January the team conducted 27 anti-poaching checks including joint patrols with gamekeepers of adjacent hunting estates across the territory of both Kedrovaya Pad nature reserve and Leopardovy...

We hope all of our supportes are doing well and would like to inform you about the creation of new anti-poaching team within the law-enforcement service of Kedrovaya Pad Nature Reserve and Leopardovy Wildlife Refuge (KP). In October 2011, a newly established "Border team" of 5 inspectors started to patrol the...

In October, the South team carried out 26 anti-poaching patrols on the southern territories of Leopardovy Wildlife Refuge, south-west area of Kedrovaya Pad Nature Reserve and on adjacent hunting estates Bezverhovskoe and Slavyanskoe. The team carried out patrols both at night, and in the afternoon, mainly along the spawning...

Kedrovaya Pad Nature Reserve (NR) turned 95 years old today. It is one of the oldest protected areas in Russia. Since its creation, the size of the protected area has significantly increased, from 4,500 ha (in 1916) to 18,000 ha (1956).  In 2009, the Russian Government created Leopardovy Widlife Refuge , merging two...

We are very excited to inform our supporters at GlobalGiving that on July 6th, 2011 their generous donations helped the Phoenix Fund purchase a quad bike «Yamaha Grizzly 550» for Kedrovaya Pad Nature Reserve! The new ATV will allow the law-enforcement officers to patrol the most impassible territories of...

On June 22, during the regular patrol along the territory of Leopardovy Wildlife Refuge the law-enforcement inspectors noticed two hunters with guns and backpacks. During the pursuit, one hunter managed to disappear in the dense forest, the second was detained at the railway bridge through the Narva river, several...

The protected habitat of the Far-Eastern (Amur) leopards would be enlarged. On May 16 at the meeting held in Vladivostok, Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov talked about creation of Leopard Land national park and threats to the survival of the Far-Eastern leopard. According to the Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister,...

A week ago I headed south to see how the leopards were doing, escaped from the city for a weekend to the place I love the most – Khasan district. The spring always comes to this lands first. There's no snow, rivers broke up, faded grass covers the hills, and for half an hour you can stay outside without a jacket on....

I just got back home after a four-hour drive from Kedrovaya Pad nature reserve where I was presenting first results of a new MIST project started there three months ago. The feedback was rather exciting as I saw inspectors’ faces radiating understanding why they had to take all the waypoints using GPS units and fill...

Today, February 3, two poachers were detained during a routine patrol by the Southern anti-poaching team in Leopardovy Wildlife Refuge near the Bomburovo military reservation. During the inspection of the protected area (PA) the team noticed six people dressing a killed roe deer. Shortly, the poachers left the bag and...

We are glad to report about another successful pursuit in Southwest Primorye! At noon on Friday, January 14, the Southern anti-poaching team found footprints belonging allegedly to two men and followed a trail of footprints to catch up with and arrest the intruders. After a 2-hour pursuit the rangers noticed that the...

Yesterday, December 20, a group of poachers was detained during a routine patrol by the South anti-poaching team in Leopardovy Wildlife Refuge.  According to a senior inspector of the South AP team, at 6 p.m. the law enforcement officers stopped a car inside the protected area. It turned out that three...

On November 28, the experts of the South team of Leopardovy Wildlife Refuge and Kedrovaya Pad Nature Reserve went to a deer farm situated in the vicinity of the protected areas to investigate a case of livestock depredation. Earlier the deer breeder informed the inspectors that a leopard had killed a male deer at night...

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to our leopard conservation project. Since this is our first project report, in addition to sharing updates on our leopard conservation project GlobalGiving.org donors are supporting, I would like to offer you a bit of background on the area we live and work in. Primorsky...