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Endangered leopards caught on video

By CANG WEI (chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2014-03-20 20:05

An army in China's Hunchun Amur Tiger National Nature Reserve, Jilin province, has captured images of the endangered Amur leopards, ybnews.cn reported.

According to the army, it captured two leopards on video on March 9, and then in the early morning on Monday they appeared again on a nearby mountain ridge.

There are only 40 to 50 Amur leopards in the world, and Hunchun has eight or nine living in its nature reserve.

The Amur leopard has been listed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

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