Volunteers of the corporate volunteer project "Become a Member of the Eco Team" payed a visit to the national park "Land of the Leopard" and saw the Amur leopard, as per the report from the SUEK press center.
Volunteers - employees of the Murmansk Commercial Sea Port - assisted in the work of specialists of the protected area. They also managed to attend the visitor center and central manor of the Leopard Land in the village of Barabash.
Guests of the national park were shown a unique presentation created from pictures taken by camera traps.
During the visit, the volunteers learned about how the rarest of all the large cats of the planet is being preserved and studied in Russia. The national park practices photomonitoring - there are more than 400 camera traps, which are located strategically on the territory of the conservation zone. They help the park staff learn more about the behaviour of the leopards in their habitat.
The guests were also taken along the “Leopard Trail”, where the Murmansk citizens saw a unique tree - Erman's birch - and a rock on which predators rest.
At the end of the walk, volunteers visited special houses done for wildlife photographers to capture leopards.
At present, corporate volunteering is gaining increasing popularity in Russia. This is the way the employees of organisations help national park workers to carry out their daily tasks, at the same time joining the wild nature.
Leopard land is the most protected natural area in Russia, inhabited by such rare species of wild cats as the Amur tiger, lynx, wildcat and the Amur leopard.
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