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[Vrej1915]

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anyone know what is the current Leopard population in Caucasus?

Less than a dozen, main zone of presence signaled in Zankezur range (Armenian Republic/Nakhitchevan), including Shigahogh reserve, on the lower slopes of the same range, cross bordering NKR on Kovsagan district.
Ararat province of AR, in and south of Khosrove reserve, in Urtzasar range.

[Eddo211]

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My guess is that they would prefer a different kind of cat in their sights.

anyone know what is the current Leopard population in Caucasus?

[bell-the-cat]

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Very assumptive about people you don't know. Again...........

With those three I know exactly, there is no longer any element of assumption.

Assumptions can be wrong. An assumption would be, for example, to always assume something (and not something good) from those with bombastic or extremist profile pictures, avatars, signature footnotes, etc. Those three have that too, but it is their actual posts that revealed them as what they are. So maybe you should read them too, and not make your assumptions out to be facts.

[bell-the-cat]

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Kinda curious how you know this? Was this info in a glass ball or maybe on the Ipad?

Based on their comments in this very thread.

[hrai]

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The Mos's, Tigranakert's and Armanen's of Armenia would be rushing to shoot the very last one, turn it into a floor rug, and sell it to the likes of Dodo Gago to grace one of his whore's bedrooms.

Very assumptive about people you don't know. Again...........

My guess is that they would prefer a different kind of cat in their sights.

[Haykakan]

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The Mos's, Tigranakert's and Armanen's of Armenia would be rushing to shoot the very last one, turn it into a floor rug, and sell it to the likes of Dodo Gago to grace one of his whore's bedrooms.

Kinda curious how you know this? Was this info in a glass ball or maybe on the Ipad?

[bell-the-cat]

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SCIENTIST CONCERNED OVER DECLINE IN CAUCASIAN LEOPARD POPULATION IN ARMENIA

The Mos's, Tigranakert's and Armanen's of Armenia would be rushing to shoot the very last one, turn it into a floor rug, and sell it to the likes of Dodo Gago to grace one of his whore's bedrooms.

[Haykakan]

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SCIENTIST CONCERNED OVER DECLINE IN CAUCASIAN LEOPARD POPULATION IN ARMENIA

13:38 12.09.13

The population of Caucasian leopards (Panthera pardus ciscaucasica)
has declined in Armenia in recent years because of poaching and
troops stationed on the Line of Contact, Mamilkon Ghasabyan of the
Scientific Center of Zoology and Hydroecology, Armenian National
Academy of Sciences, told Tert.am.

"There was a large population of Caucasian leopards in Armenia years
ago, but it has seriously declined since the collapse of the Soviet
Union," he said.

The Foundation for the Preservation of Wildlife and Cultural Assets
(FPWC) installed videos cameras at the Khosrov forest reserve. On
August 7, a camera recorded a Caucasian leopard.

Armenian News - Tert.am

[Haykakan]

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The Times (London)
March 2, 2013 Saturday
Edition 1; National Edition


Battle to save the Euro-leopard

Simon Barnes

The great problem with European life is that there are not nearly
enough cats. I don't mean xxxxx-cats: I mean the big fierce ones that
can kill you. Life is a great deal richer for the presence of enormous
menacing felids. They add a touch of Tabasco to a morning stroll.

My favourite big cat is, of course, all of them, but I can't deny a
special fondness for leopards. It's in the movement: that vast elastic
stride, the smoothness, as if every joint has been bathed in a gallon
of oil. I've seen them most often at night, in the Luangwa Valley in
Zambia, hunting them out with a spotlight. Catch them in the beam and
they look as if they are lit from within.

Leopards are cats of subtlety. In most of their range they are not the
alpha predators, ceding that role to lions and tigers. In many places
their kills can be stolen by hyenas or dhole, the Asian wild dogs. So
they tend to be nocturnal, silent, sneaky, clever: highly talented at
not being seen. Which makes seeing one all the sweeter.

Europe used to have plenty of big cats.

Herodotus, writing around 480BC, said that they were common in Greece.
Two hundred years later, Aristotle said that they were rare. Now the
idea of European lions seems a joke: an aberration: against nature.
It's nothing of the kind.

The historic range of the tiger has been reduced by 93 per cent since
the beginning of the 20th century. But the leopard, being by nature
the most subtle of all the big cats, hangs on in some unexpected
places. Like Europe. They are capable of living close to human
populations without making much impact: without being seen.

And they hang on on the very fringes of our continent. You can still
find leopards on the Caucasus, the strip of land between the Black and
the Caspian seas. Armenia counts as Europe: their football team is
ranked 50th of 53 by Uefa, the European football union, so it must be
true. And they have leopards.

The Caucasus Wildlife Refuge is a wild spot managed by an Armenian
NGO, the Foundation for the Preservation of Wildlife and Cultural
Assets (FPWC). It is in the middle of the wildest part of the Caucasus
that spans six countries. And they've found leopards.

Samples of fur and droppings discovered in the refuge have been
subjected to genetic tests by Jerusalem Zoo, and they confirmed that
they come from the Caucasian leopard, a leopard subspecies. Our own
Euro-leopard. This now fabulously rare animal is hanging on out there:
but it's very much a creature on the edge.

My old friends at World Land Trust (I'm a council member) have
recently hooked up with FPWC and established a partnership.

They are planning to fund the Armenian organisation so that they can
buy land to extend the Wildlife Refuge, and, at the same time, fund
rangers who will patrol the place and help to prevent illegal hunting.

In other words, this impossible thing is true, and it can stay true if
there is the human will. We really do have big cats in Europe. As
Europeans we all have a share in that pleasure and, of course, an
opportunity to invest in their future.

There aren't many of them. There may be no more than 15 of them in all
Armenia. But Mary Tibbett, of World Land Trust, says: "They're
resilient and we believe they can be saved." Leopards, being among the
subtler beasts of the field, have a knack of hanging on. They're there
to save if we want them.

This fabulously '' rare animal is hanging on, but it's very much on the edge

[Mos]

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The Hippies protesting....oh God...lol