the leopard restoration program in the caucasus, a candidate of biological sciences sciences anna yachmennikovathe program has been implemented since 2007, and we we regularly ask the russian ministry of natural resources to sort out possible errors, sort out emerging issues, because this is a unique project, nothing like this has ever been implemented in the world with large cats, and naturally from scratch, but it can’t go smoothly, in general, the work is still in progress no, in terms of efficiency assessment, but from 2007 to 2023 we have never been able to sort out some points of errors, assess the actual effectiveness of the work, but as a specialist, you feel these bottlenecks of the program, in order so that the program worked effectively, as it developed, firstly, the number of people involved in it since 2007 should increase, but in order for people to want to work with it and understand the importance of this, it needs to be done before them the first to inform, and secondly, it all comes down to payment, if the funding of the program has not changed since the moment it began, then