Leopard conservation in the Caucasus

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2010-01-01

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Breitenmoser, Urs
Shavgulidze, Irakli
Askerov, Elshad
Khorozyan, Igor
Farhadinia, Mohammed
Can, Özgün Emre
Bilgin, Cemal Can
Zazanashvili, Nugzar

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The leopard Panthera pardus is a Critically Endangered flagship species of the Caucasus. In 2007, conservation experts and institutions from all six Caucasian countries joined to develop a Strategy for the Conservation of the Leopard in the Caucasus Ecoregion, based on a review of the status of the leopard population and its prey (Cat News Special Issue 2, 2007). Now, three years later, the IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Group, WWF and NACRES organised a discussion group at the annual conference of the International Bear Association IBA in Tbilisi, Georgia. The meeting was part of the symposium “Large Carnivores in the Caucasus”, organised and supported by the Secretariat of the Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats (Bern Convention). The leopard is listed as a strictly protected species in Appendix II of the Bern Convention. The aim of the meeting was to discuss the status of the leopard, the implementation of the Strategy and next steps with wildlife conservationists from the Caucasian countries.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/77188
http://www.catsg.org/index.php?id=188

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Cat News

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U. Breitenmoser et al., “Leopard conservation in the Caucasus,” Cat News, pp. 39–40, 2010, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/77188.