A young female Amur leopard was found dead on 22 April 2007 in the central part of the Amur leopard’s range in SW Primorye in Russia near the village Bamburova. Evgeny Stoma and his anti-poaching team found the leopardess after a 3-day search that was started after an anonymous phone call was received with information that a leopard was killed. The young female that had died about a week earlier had not yet produced young. A poacher’s bullet had entered near its tail and was found inside the body. Claudia Schoene and John Lewis of the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) who performed the post-mortem established that the wounded leopard had been killed by hitting it on the head with a heavy object. An investigation is ongoing and we hope the poacher will be caught.

ALTA partners IFAW, AMUR, ZSL and Tigris Foundation finance the anti-poaching team.

Dead leopard 2 , Postmortem 1 , Postmortem 2   (photos: Evgeny Stoma)