North China Leopard

The North China leopard (Panthera pardus japonensis), also known as the North-Chinese leopard, is a leopard subspecies native to northern China. Population data are not available from the wild. Historic records from before 1930 indicate that North China leopards lived near Beijing and in the mountains to the north-west. They possibly ranged up to the southern Ussuri region. It was previously estimated that about 2,500 North China leopards remain in the wild of China. As of today, only small and isolated populations remain. They also lived in Lanzhou in Northwest China, north to the mountains at the southern region of the Chinese Gobi Desert in Inner Mongolia, and near Harbin in the northeast.