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The Amur leopard is down to 40-50 animals in the wild, and this is totally unacceptable for the species to survive.
According to the World Wildlife Fund in 2015, the Amur Leopard is critically endangered.The Amur Leopard is also known as the Manchurian Leopard or the Korean Leopard. Their scientific name is panthera pardus orientalis.
There is only one species of leopard, Panthera pardus. There are, however, nine subspecies of leopard, and although some are doing quite well, others are endangered. Here is a list of the subspecies and their conservation status: African Leopard: Least Concern Indian Leopard: Near Threatened Javan Leopard: Critically Endangered Arabian Leopard: Critically Endangered Amur Leopard: Critically Endangered North Chinese Leopard: Endangered Persian Leopard: Endangered Indo-Chinese Leopard: Vulnerable Sri Lankan Leopard: Endangered
The snow leopard was first put on the endangered species list was in 1972.
The leopard as a species is not endangered, but some races are. See IUCN Redlist for list of endangered leopard races.
As a species, leopards are not endangered. But many subspecies are. See IUCN Redlist for list of endangered leopard sub species.
The snow leopard was listed as "globally endangered" on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species in 1972.
a snow leopard is one of them
The snow leopard is not extinct, it is on the list of endangered species, but not extinct.
since 1972
since 1972
it was put on the list on june 14,2001