The Amur Leopard Now Lives Only in Remote Northern Forests

The Amur leopard now lives only in remote northern forests of Russia; the last census showed only 14-20 adults and 5-6 cubs surviving.The leopard no longer occurs in Korea or northern China.The Amur tiger had approximately the same range; in the 1940s, only 40 tigers remained in the Russian Far East.Russia gave government protection to the tiger, and the population has now increased to about 540 individuals.The IUCN classifies these two animals into different categories.Based on their current populations, one would expect the leopard to be classified as

A) endangered and the tiger as critically endangered.
B) critically endangered and the tiger as endangered.
C) near threatened and the tiger as endangered.
D) endangered and the tiger as extinct in the wild.
E) extinct in the wild and the tiger as critically endangered.