Caucasian leopard captured by trap cameras in Armenia

Public Radio of Armenia

18:24, 11 Apr 2018

For the first time in history a video of a Caucasian leopard has been captured by trap cameras of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in Khosrov Forest State Reserve of Armenia.

Since 2002 the Armenian Ministry of Nature Protection and the World Wildlife Fund have been implementing the program of protection of the Caucasian leopard (Panthera pardus ciscaucasica) in Armenia.

The program aims to increase the population of the Caucasian leopard, which is on the verge of disappearance, as well as the species the leopard hunts for – the Bezoar goat, the Armenian muffle and others.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS