In 2012 Russia established the 1,000 square mile Land of the Leopard National Park close to its borders with North Korea and China with the aim of protecting endangered Siberian Tigers and critically endangered Amur Leopards.
Between 2007 and 2017, census data indicated that the number of leopards in the park had grown from 30 to more than 90 and, at the beginning of 2020, I got the opportunity to spend a week there living in a baited hide...