There are directly fewer than threescore Amur leopards living inward the wild. Part of the argue for this is the loss of the leopard's natural habitat. Leopards accept lost around 66% of their natural habitat inward Africa as well as 85% inward Eurasia. This loss of habitat as well as the lawsuit on Leopards is explored inward National Geographic's Learning to Live with Leopards.
National Geographic's study examines the human relationship betwixt homo as well as leopard as well as the lawsuit of the rise human population on the survival of this purplish animal. The study is accompanied past times an interactive map which shows the leopard's historic arrive at (in circa 1750) as well as its arrive at today.
The map looks inward plow at each of the subspecies of leopards (African, Arabian, Persian, Indian, Sri Lankan, Indochinese, Javan, North Chinese as well as Amur). When you lot guide i of the subspecies the map zooms inward on that species' natural habitat. The map shows the historical arrive at as well as the electrical flow arrive at of the selected subspecies of leopard, amongst the density of the human population. The map sidebar too reports on the estimated numbers left of each subspecies of leopard.
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