Two cubs, born to a leopardess Cherry at the Leopard Restoration Center in the Caucasus, were named Khosta and Laura, as reported on the official website of WWF Russia.
The cubs were named after the rivers of the Sochi National Park and the Caucasian Nature Reserve.
It is under these names that the leopards will be recorded in the international herd book of the Central Asian leopard and it is with them that they will remain forever, regardless of their place of residence.
Now the weight of each cub is about 6 kg.
The first vaccination of the cubs took place on December 1, 2020, now it is possible to carry out the second vaccination.
The staff of the center monitors the natural reactions of the females so that by the time of release, these animals are ready to live in the wild, hunt and avoid humans and livestock.
The program for the restoration of the Central Asian leopard in the Caucasus is being implemented by the Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia in partnership with the Sochi National Park, the Caucasus Nature Reserve, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF Russia), the Institute of Ecology and Evolution named after V. A.N. Severtsov of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Ecology of Mountain Territories named after V.I. A.K. Tembotov of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Moscow Zoo, with the assistance of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the European Association of Zoos and Aquariums (EAZA). Leopard monitoring is carried out with the financial support of the VTB Bank.
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