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Plastic: There’s No Leopards Like Snow Leopards…
Thus, illegal poaching constitutes one direct threat to the animal. Another threat is the loss of habitat to desperately poor farmers and herders. These people, living on the margin as it is, kill leopards either to reduce leopards using their farm animals as prey or for the income […]

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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Snow leopard project faces finish
Central Asia’s tiny surviving group of snow leopards may soon lose a lifeline that is helping them cling to survival.
A project run jointly by Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, and funded by the Global Environment Facility, is scheduled to end in the middle of 2006.
It is […]