Rescue effort underway to provide emergency feeding sites for the helpless animals, with the wild boar population also in trouble.
Animal charity WWF Russia in plea for help to prevent repeat of 1980s winter crisis that killed 90% of species in the region.
Move defies hunters who want to keep shooting the black bear.
New estimate puts number at 80, almost double some recent figures.
Amazing new pictures show a endangered Amur leopard with a cub.
Wild hoofed animals are in peril in the Far East of Russia due to exceptionally heavy snow falls which are covered by an ice crust.
Experts delighted as camera records flirting between Amur leopards in the wild for the first time.
Renowned scientist says temperatures could 'rise twice faster' in Yakutia than the rest of the world.
Proof of recovery of endangered species after 'historic' sighting of Siberian tiger 2000 km west of its usual habitat.
Kitten is one of the world’s rarest big cats, with only 91 known adults surviving in the wild.