THE cold and rugged mountains of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan - TopicsExpress



          

THE cold and rugged mountains of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and China seem an unlikely place to find a flourishing combination of new community institutions and international diplomacy. It turns out that snow leopards face several major threats: poaching, both for their skins and body parts, sought after by the traditional medicine trade; the decline of prey such as wild sheep and goats; retaliatory killings by shepherds and villagers for livestock lost to snow leopards; and shrinking wild habitat.
Posted on: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 22:53:53 +0000

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