About
A live, honest count of jaguars, leopards and black panthers.
Rosette tracks how many jaguars, leopards and Amur leopards are left, explains what a black panther actually is, answers any question about them from a sourced corpus in five languages, and maps where in the world you can go and see one.
Why these three
They are not three random cats. The jaguar and the leopard are the two rosette cats of the genus Panthera — the ones whose coats carry a broken, flower-shaped ring rather than a solid spot. A cheetah is not one of them. The black panther is not a third species but the melanistic form of both: roughly one in ten wild jaguars and leopards is black, and the rosettes are still there underneath. The Amur leopard is the rarest leopard subspecies, and the reason this site exists. Each wears the rosette differently, and learning the difference takes about ninety seconds.
How the numbers are sourced
There is no official live counter for any big cat, and this site will never pretend otherwise. Every figure here is a published estimate carrying three things: a date, a method, and an error range. Where those three cannot be established, the site prints unknown rather than a number.
Status and trend come from the IUCN Red List. Jaguar numbers come from the 2018 range-wide modelling study, with 2025 Amazon camera-trap work as context. Amur leopard numbers come from camera-trap monitoring at Land of the Leopard National Park with WCS Russia, reported 2024–2025, and from its Chinese counterpart. Black panther figures come from Panthera's geneticists. Every figure links to its source with the date it was retrieved.
Confidence, shown rather than hidden
| Confidence | How it is rendered | Example |
|---|---|---|
| High | A solid number | — |
| Moderate | A range | Amur leopard, ~130 |
| Low | A range plus a grey band and the words poorly surveyed | — |
| None | The word unknown, and a subspecies breakdown instead | Leopard |
Five languages
The whole site, and the assistant's entire knowledge base, exist in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Arabic. The assistant detects the language you type your question in and answers in that language, from passages written in it — not machine-translated at the moment of asking.
Update cadence
These figures move once a year at most, so there is no real-time pipeline behind this site — that would be wasted money and a source of bugs. The sources are re-checked by hand quarterly. When something changes, the data is edited and committed, and the site redeploys itself.
What this site will not do
- Print a global leopard figure. No credible one exists.
- List cub-petting, walk-with-a-big-cat operators, or photo props.
- Invent a tourism product for the Amur leopard.
- Let the assistant state a number that is not in its sources.
Where to find us
Instagram: @Dadaandbagg — the reel, the rare facts, and the strangest question the assistant was asked each week.
If you have $50 to spend on this subject do not spend it here. Spend it with Panthera or the Amur leopard programme. This website costs about ten dollars a year to run.