Daring criminals intended to walk across frozen lake to take skins and ‘potency cures’ into China.
With dumpy little legs, a dense body and a penchant for hiding from trouble, the Manul has proved elusive to nature lovers worldwide.
Pictures prove the gruesome fate of reindeer 'to meet demands for traditional medicines in China and South Korea'.
One of only 500 of the largest cats in the world left in the Siberian wild is gunned down in Kharbarovsk region.
This endangered snow leopard and her two cautious cubs are among only 100 or so living in the wild in Russia.
New estimate puts number at 80, almost double some recent figures.
The rare Amur tigress was saved from starvation more than a year ago after she was orphaned when poachers killed her mother.
World's fluffiest, shyest, most expressive (and worryingly endangered) cat appears in wild photo-shoot.
'Aggressive' crew resisted border patrol ship after being caught fishing illegally in Russian waters.
Amur tigress orphaned in 2012 and released after rehabilitation a year later pictured with her cubs in Bastak Nature Reserve.