14 DAY TRIAL // Environmental group the World Wildlife Fund is happy to announce that rare Caucasian leopards have recently been caught on camera in Southern Armenia.
The organization details that, by monitoring a remote region in this part of the world for about 8 months with the help of camera traps, conservationists have managed to document the presence of at least one male and two females.
Besides, wildlife researchers say that, judging by the images obtained with the help of camera traps set up in Southern Armenia, the local population of animals that Caucasian leopards prey on has also increased.
In light of these findings, conservationists hope that the two females inhabiting the region will become pregnant and deliver their cubs sometime in the near future.
To understand why greenheads are so eager to see these two females become mothers, it must be said that, for the time being, there are only 1,300 Caucasian leopards left in the wild.
The area that this species inhabits currently spans from Iran to the North Caucasus region in Russia, but it used to be much greater, the World Wildlife Fund explains.
Thus, together with poaching activities, the loss of habitat has played a major part in driving these felines to the brink of extinction.