If wife Vlada accepts him, a cub can be born in Bellewaerde for the first time in seven years.
Preserving the species in captivity is more important than ever, especially now that Putin has expelled all NGOs responsible for the breeding program in Siberia. Everything had been arranged to release the first animals in that region, but everything was stopped by the war in Ukraine.
Amur leopards live in eastern Russia, near the border with China.