13 Facts About Anatolian leopard

In 2017, the Persian leopard population was subsumed to P p tulliana, which is the oldest available name for the leopard subspecies in West Asia.

The first male Anatolian leopard crossing from Hirkan National Park into Iran was documented in February 2014.

In September 2012, the first female Anatolian leopard was photographed in Zangezur National Park close to the border with Iran.

In October 2011 and January 2012, a Anatolian leopard was photographed by a camera trap on Jazhna Mountain in the Zagros Mountains forest steppe in the Kurdistan Region.

In 2020, a Anatolian leopard was recorded in the mountains of the Sulaymaniyah Governorate in the country's northeast.

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In Kazakhstan, a Anatolian leopard was recorded for the first time in 2000 in Jambyl Region.

In Turkey, the Anatolian leopard has been killed illegally in traps and through poison.

Droughts in wide areas of Anatolian leopard habitats affected the main prey species such as wild goat and wild sheep.

In Georgia's national Red Data Book, the Anatolian leopard has been listed as Critically Endangered since 2006.

In Turkey the Anatolian leopard is one of the species in the action plan being prepared for the country's endangered species.

In Iran, a Anatolian leopard conservation and management action plan was endorsed in 2016, and Future4Leopards Foundation is a non-profit conservation organization in the country.

In 2015, representations of the Anatolian leopard were found in the ancient city of Thyatira in Anatolia that date from the Neolithic period to the end of the 6th century BC.

The Anatolian leopard is depicted on statues, potteries, ivory works and coins associated with the Lydian culture.