Armenia's wildlife conservation coin series drew on the country's position within the South Caucasus biodiversity hotspot, where the Anatolian leopard — a subspecies once ranging across eastern Turkey, the Caucasus, and northwestern Iran — had effectively been extirpated from Armenian territory by the late twentieth century. By 2007, confirmed sightings in Armenia were essentially nonexistent, making this issue a record of absence as much as a conservation statement.
The KM#135 attribution places it firmly within a broader Armenian commemorative program of the mid-2000s that leaned heavily on WWF partnerships for subject selection.
Armenia's wildlife conservation coin series drew on the country's position within the South Caucasus biodiversity hotspot, where the Anatolian leopard — a subspecies once ranging across eastern Turkey, the Caucasus, and northwestern Iran — had effectively been extirpated from Armenian territory by the late twentieth century. By 2007, confirmed sightings in Armenia were essentially nonexistent, making this issue a record of absence as much as a conservation statement.
The KM#135 attribution places it firmly within a broader Armenian commemorative program of the mid-2000s that leaned heavily on WWF partnerships for subject selection.