ALTA Amur Leopard video

Watch the Amur leopard video.

Alarming news: Amur tiger population decline!

On Friday 16 October the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) announced at a press conference in Vladivostok that Amur (Siberian) tiger numbers are falling in the Russian Far East, primarily due to poaching and habitat degradation.  The results can hopefully be used to improve conditions for tigers in Russia.

In a few days we will publish recommendations to reverse the negative population trend -  recommendations that are agreed upon by a wide host of NGOs inclduding WCS, WWF and Phoenix Fund.

Press release text

 ALTA Amur Leopard Conservation website

Please visit the new website www.amur-leopard.org . 

Golden Ark Award for Michiel Hötte of Tigris Foundation 

Michiel Hötte, founder of Tigris Foundation, received a prestigious Golden Ark Award on Friday 14 March 2008 in Burgers Zoo in Arhem in the Netherlands for his achievements as an Amur leopard conservationist. Burgers Zoo in Arnhem has made the funds for the three awards of Euro 50,000 available. Tigris Foundation will use the award money for the development of firebreaks around the leopard reserve Kedrovaya Pad. Poaching and forest fires are the two main threats to the survival of the remaining 30 Amur leopards. 

- press release here, photo here  

Vladivostok – 480 bear paws, a tiger skin and tiger skeleton were confiscated from Chinese nationals during an attempt to illegally cross the border from Russia into China. Russian bear and other  wildlife populations are depleted to satisfy demand in China. Press Release (4 September 2007)  

• Press Release China's stock piles of illegal tiger products should be destroyed (27 July 2007)
• Photo (stockpiled tigers at Chinese tiger farm)
• You can help! View the video - and take action for tigers - at www.EndTigerTrade.org
• Large tiger mozaik unveiled at CITES conference (film - Flash Animation)
• Read more about the "International Tiger Coalition" and its campaign against tiger trade

Do you plan to embark on a long sailing trip? Put the Amur leopard emblem on your sails! Will you participate in a marathon? Put the emblem on your shirt! Will you climb a high mountain? Put a flag with the emblem on the mountain top!

We invite you to organise an Amur leopard activity and send us photographs and footage of the event. Any activity is possible, even a simple interview with an Amur leopard fan explaining why this animal is special! We will use your photos and footage for publication in local Russian newspapers and for broadcasts on local Russian television. Seeing that people in far-away places care about the Amur leopard will make a big impression on Russian villagers in the leopard’s range. It will make them realise that their leopard is worth protecting.
 
It is essential that the ‘Amur leopard emblem’ is shown prominently on the footage and photographs of your event.

Download the Amur Leopard Conservation Emblem: PDF , GIF

Please contact Michiel Hötte for further information.

Amur leopard killed  (read more)    Amur leopard count results (read more)

Education materials: bookmarkers
Have a look at Phoenix Fund’s new bookmarkers that will be distributed among Russian schoolchildren

Amur leopard bookmarkers   (1.4 MB)      Amur tiger bookmarkers (0.4 MB)
Riding the Tiger,  the best book available if you want to explore the state of knowledge of tigers in the wild, is available on the Save The Tiger Fund website.

Last updated on 13 June 2009