A new study has revealed that the last breeding population of leopards in Cambodia is at immediate risk of extinction after declining a staggering 72 percent over a five-year period. The population represents the last remaining leopards in all of eastern Indochina – a region that includes Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.

 

The results were published in the Royal Society Open Science journal by Oxford University’s Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, in collaboration with Panthera, a global wild cat conservation organisation. WWF-Cambodia, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Forestry Administration of Cambodia’s Ministry of Agriculture were also involved in the study.

 

Jan Kamler, Panthera Southeast Asia leopard programme coordinator, said that this population represented the last glimmer of hope for leopards in all of Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. “No longer can we, as an international community, overlook conservation of this unique wild cat,” he said. “We must band together in action, not just in words, to curb the epidemic of poaching facing this gorgeous big cat and others around the globe.”

 

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Despite trying, I have not been able to SPOT one.

5 minutes ago, Cats4ever said:

Despite trying, I have not been able to SPOT one.

Because they've probably changed them.........boom, boom!!