Rare leopard returns to Georgia
In Georgia, for the first time in 12 years, a Central Asian leopard was caught in a camera trap. It is assumed that he came from the territory of Russia, according to the press center of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.
The predator is now in the mountains of Tusheti, northeastern Georgia. In 2009, a Central Asian leopard was seen in the Vashlovani National Park (Eastern Georgia).
“Leopards are capable of making long transitions over relatively long distances, and this individual, filmed by colleagues from Georgia, may well turn out to be a” graduate “of our Center,” says Umar Semyonov, deputy director for ensuring the implementation of the leopard restoration program in the Caucasus. …
According to him, spots on the skin of an animal are individual – just like fingerprints in humans – and theoretically it would be possible to collect data on a predator caught in a camera trap. However, the quality of the photo does not allow this.
In October of this year, a camera trap photographed an Amur tiger near the Shantar Islands in the Khabarovsk Territory. This rare predator has never been seen so far in the entire history of observations.
