GENARAL INFORMATION
What lives in the Eastern Himalayas?The snow leopard of course!The snow leopard
is an amazing creature but it is endangered.There are about 5000 snow leopard left in the world. Let’s hope they don’t go extinct. There population is suspected to lower 20% by 2030.The WWF(World Wildlife Foundation) tries to reduce conflict from the leopards and the humans.
Snow leopard are very good hunters.They can kill prey up to three times their size.”They eat blue sheep, Argali wild sheep, ibex, marmots, pikas, deer and other small mammals”. The food that snow leopard typically eat are hunted by native people too.”As their natural prey becomes harder to find, snow leopards are often forced to kill livestock for survival, in many cases leading to retaliatory killings of snow leopards by local farmers or herder”.
Sometimes the snow leopard is known as the ghost of the mountains. Mainly because it is so elusive.Snow leopard use their white fur to camouflage with the snow. Many snow leopard are now regular leopard because of global warming.
DANGER
Snow leopards play a key role as a predator.If snow leopards thrive the other animals will too.”The impact of global climate change is melting the once mighty Himalayas at a rate faster than ever recorded in human history, jeopardizing a vital source of freshwater for billions of snow leopard in Asia.” “Impacts from climate change could result in a loss of up to 30% of the snow leopard habitat in the Himalayas alone.”
HOW YOU CAN HELP
We should help snow Leopard by reducing food consumption in the Himalayas. People should help snow leopards by not killing them for sport. You can donate to help save the snow leopard. You can reduce,reuse and recylcle to reduce global warming.
Information
The snow leopard has many nicknames. On of the scientific ones is “Panthera Uncia”.”The genus name, Uncia, is derived from the Old French word once, which was originally used for the European lynx. The snow leopard is still occasionally called ounce.”In its native lands, the snow leopard is known under many names, including as “wāwrīn pṛāng”,“shan”,“zigsa”,“irves”, “bars” or “barys” “ilbirs”,
“palang-e”, “barfi” ,and “him tendua!"
Conclusion
Wow! Snow leopard are the one of the most fascinating creatures in the world. Let’s hope they don’t extinct. The WWF wants to help the amazing snow leopard.You probably learned a lot about snow leopards in this text.
