Protection zone established in bid to save rare leopard
By Wu Yong in Wangqing, Jilin and Liu Ce in Shenyang | China Daily | Updated: 2012-12-07 08:08
Diana, an Amur leopard, stretches in her enclosure at the Royev Ruchey Zoo in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk in August. Ilya Naymushin / Reuters |
A joint team from China and Russia will carry out field research on the Amur leopard as part of efforts to implement the big cat's protection program as signed in St. Petersburg, Russia, two years ago, a senior official from the Jilin Forestry Department has revealed.
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