The leopard’s (Panthera pardus) huge geographic variety, super adaptability, and secretive nature have contributed to a false impression that this species may not be seriously threatened throughout its variety. We discover that now no longer handiest are numerous subspecies and local populations significantly endangered however additionally the general variety loss is more than the common for terrestrial huge carnivores.

To investigate the leopard’s status, we bring together 6,000 facts at 2,500 places from over 1, three hundred reassets on its anciental (publish 1750) and modern distribution. We map the species throughout Africa and Asia, delineating regions wherein the species is showed present, is likely present, is likely extinct or is sort of really extinct. The leopard now occupies 25–37% of its anciental variety; however this obscures vital variations among subspecies. Of the 9 diagnosed subspecies, three (P. p. pardus, fusca, and saxicolor) account for 97% of the leopard’s extant variety at the same time as some other three (P. p. orientalis, nimr, and japonensis) have every misplaced as a lot as 98% in their anciental variety.

 Isolation, small patch sizes, and few ultimate patches similarly threaten the six subspecies that every have much less than 100,000 km of extant variety. Approximately 17% of extant leopard variety is protected, despite the fact that a few endangered subspecies have some distance much less. We observed that at the same time as leopard studies turned into increasing, studies attempt turned into mostly at the subspecies with the maximum ultimate variety while subspecies which are maximum in want of pressing interest have been neglected.

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ALINA SMITH
Journal of Animal Sciences and Livestock Production