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The Pamirs, known as the ‘Roof of the World’, are one of the key mountain ranges of Central Asia and are home to Tajikistan’s globally significant snow leopard population.
FFI is working to bring together local communities, hunting agencies, the state conservation sector and the military on the Tajik side of the Pamir mountain range in a programme to help conserve the regions’ biodiversity.
The project aims to secure vital snow leopard habitat and offer further hope to all the species found in the breathtaking Pamir landscape, including Marco-Polo sheep and the Barheaded (Indian) Goose.
Leopard skins seized in Libreville, Gabon from wildlife traffickers that were most likely poached in Gabon. Panthera's Lion Program Survey Coordinator, Dr. Phil Henschel, was called in to help identify the confiscated felid skins.
Sneeuwpanter (Uncia uncia / Panthera uncia)
Zoo Krefeld, Krefeld, Germany
Conservation status: Endangered
Relaxing leopard laying on wet and cool ground near a waterhole.
Taken at Sabi Sabi Game Reserve, South Africa.
CANON EOS 7D | CANON EF 28-300mm/1:3,5-5,6 L IS USM | ADOBE LIGHTROOM 3.
Snow leopard at Paradise Wildlife Park, Broxbourne
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Leopard at Ngala Private Game Reserve, where we were blessed with eight great sightings in four days. © Andy Withers
"I'm going to pretend you are not there. Go away."
Think I like this one best of the snow leopard ones. It was a nice sunny day and I could have happily dozed in the sunshine too, so this picture reminds me of the day.
Taken @ Olmense Zoo, Olmen
The leopard , Panthera pardus, is a member of the Felidae family and the smallest of the four "big cats" in the genus Panthera, the other three being the tiger, lion, and jaguar. The leopard was once distributed across eastern and southern Asia and Africa, from Siberia to South Africa, but its range of distribution has decreased radically because of hunting and loss of habitat. It is now chiefly found in sub-Saharan Africa; there are also fragmented populations in Indonesia, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Indochina, Malaysia, and China. Because of its declining range and population, it is listed as a "Near Threatened" species by the IUCN.
Compared to other members of the Felidae family, the leopard has relatively short legs and a long body with a large skull. It is similar in appearance to the jaguar, but is smaller and more slightly built. Its fur is marked with rosettes similar to those of the jaguar, but the leopard's rosettes are smaller and more densely packed, and do not usually have central spots as the jaguars do. Both leopards and jaguars that are melanistic (completely black or very dark) are known as black panthers.
The species' success in the wild is in part due to its opportunistic hunting behavior, its adaptability to habitats, its ability to run at speeds approaching 58 kilometres per hour (36 mph), its unequaled ability to climb trees even when carrying a heavy carcass, and its notorious ability for stealth. The leopard consumes virtually any animal that it can hunt down and catch. Its habitat ranges from rainforest to desert
Female Amur Leopard at Yorkshire wildlife Park, in the nursery enclosure with her 2 cubs. Doncaster. UK. December 2015.
Leopard at Ngala Private Game Reserve, where we were blessed with eight great sightings in four days. We tracked this female for about 20 minutes in the dusk as she led her two cubs back to a kill, a young impala. Read my published travel article about Ngala Place of the Lion. © Andy Withers