the Amur leopard (P. p. orientalis) occurs in small numbers close to the Amur River area of far Eastern Russia and Manchuria, including Jilin Province in northern China, where it has been recorded by camera-trapsinHunchun National Nature Reserve.[2][3] Leopards and other Siberian wildlife freely roams between China, Russia and North Korea using the Tumen River, despite a tall, lengthy wire fence marking the international boundary.[4]
the Indochinese leopard (P. p. delacouri) ranges from mainland Southeast Asia into Yunnan Province in southern China, where the Pearl River is thought to form a natural border to the leopard populations farther north.[5]
