Anna Vitkalova

Land of the Leopard National Park · Scientific Department

The book is the first analyses of the Far Eastern leopard camera trap monitoring data collected by the Department of Science and Monitoring of the FSBI Land of the Leopard with the participation of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the Amur branch of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF Russia). The monitoring network, which includes appro...

Small populations of the endangered species are more vulnerable to extinction and hence require periodic genetic monitoring to establish and revisit the conservation strategies. The Amur leopard is critically endangered with about 100 individuals in the wild. In this study, we developed a simple and cost-effective noninvasive genetic monitoring pro...

Big cats (Genus: Panthera) are among the most threatened mammal groups of the world, owing to hunting, habitat loss, and illegal transnational trade. Conservation genetic studies and effective curbs on poaching are important for the conservation of these charismatic apex predators. A limited number of microsatellite markers exists for Panthera spec...

The structure and properties of implanted materials based on modified pectins have been investigated, and the proposed mechanism of their action on the cells of the nervous tissue has been shown.

During the last 20 years, the Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis) population has increased from 30–35 to 100 individuals. Despite this positive trend, a long-term isolation has led to inbreeding and correlates start to show up. Here we report the observation of four Amur leopards with a short tail. The spread of this defect requires urgent ge...

Political borders and natural boundaries of wildlife populations seldom coincide, often to the detriment of conservation objectives. Transnational monitoring of endangered carnivores is rare, but is necessary for accurate population monitoring and coordinated conservation policies. We investigate the benefits of collaboratively monitoring the abund...

Amur, or Far Eastern leopards Panthera pardus orientalis, rarely come into captivity, but in 2015, two animals were brought to the TRNGO Rehabilitation Centre in the Rus- sian Far East. One animal was confirmed to have canine distemper, the first such doc- umentation for this subspecies in the wild, and was eventually euthanised. Analyses of archiv...

In fall 2015 researchers from Beijing Normal University BNU China and Land of the Leopard National Park LLNP in the Russian Far East signed a collaborative agreement for transboundary cooperation in surveys and research of the Amur tiger Pan-thera tigris altaica and Amur leopard Panthera pardus orientalis. During this meeting , camera trap database...

Southwest Primorsky Krai retains the sole remaining population of critically endangered Amur leopards, but and also holds an isolated population of Amur tigers. This small group of tigers plays a key role as a core breeding population for potential Amur tiger recovery in neighboring Jilin and Heilongjiang Provinces of Northeast China. A large scale...

The paper describes the methodology and preliminary results of a complex camera trap study of the Amur leopard. The main studies were concentrated on protected areas: the Land of the Leopard National Park with its buffer zone and the Kedrovaya Pad’ Biosphere Reserve, a total area of 3600 km2. The first results of the 2014–2015 survey period are pre...