Many of us understand the truth about the benefits of hunting to a wildlife population. The reason some responses to you are rude is because the uninformed knee-jerk reaction that we hear, over and over, gets a bit old after the years. States like Texas have proved that allowing controlled hunting and property rights, thus putting a value on rare animals, can help the animal population. Take the scimitar-horned oryx, for example. (Which will now really become endangered because Obamas FedGov is about to prohibit hunting it.)
http://www.petersenshunting.com/2012/01/31/60-minutes-on-hunting-endangered-oryx-in-texas/
Therefore, a very good way to ensure a healthy leopard population would be to allow landowners to sell a calculated number of hunting contracts on it. You can bet that the leopards will be well taken care of!
Thank you for your politely written comment.
For my part I have absolutely no understanding of why anyone would ever want to kill an animal as beautiful as a leopard or as intelligent as an elephant.