How many leopards die each year

All Reports. Malaysia jails two Vietnamese nationals for illegal possession of tigers, leopards, and bears. All Related Stories. Behavioural change Changing attitudes, knowledge and consumer behaviour is a crucial element in the fight to save endangered wildlife. Wildlife Crime Various projects combating wildlife crime in source and destination countries are working to protect leopards from poaching and illegal trade, both physical and online.

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CITES bans or strictly limits trade of animals or their body parts. Snow Leopards for Kids. Strengthening the corrals could therefore offer a major defence against snow leopard predation, preventing the significant losses of yaks, cows, donkeys, horses, sheep and goats that trigger retaliation.

Likewise, when leopards attack individual animals grazing on mountain slopes during the day, better compensation packages could discourage revenge. Focusing on herders — the bedrock of the local economy — also makes sense in regions where it is hard for rangers to protect leopards.

Pelts are sold by both hunters and herders. But the more-illuminating information comes from in-depth interviews with 42 snow leopard experts across all 12 range countries.

Taken together, their responses reveal that pastoralists account for 55 per cent of the killings, with poachers hunting 21 per cent for illegal trade in the furs and another 18 per cent succumbing to non-targeted methods such as hidden snares. There are as few as 4, of the solitary and elusive cat remaining and numbers have fallen by a fifth in the last 16 years.

But between and are killed each year, found the report from Traffic , the wildlife trade monitoring network, published on Friday ahead of a meeting on the crisis at the UN in New York.

The number could be much higher, the NGO warned, as killings in remote mountain areas often go undetected.