What a breathtaking cat!Greetings from Mumbai, India.
Snow Leopards are flagship species of the Himalayan Ecosystem.
They are being poached like crazy for their Luxurious Skins and Bones.
India has only 500-600 Snow Leopards in the Wild.
At the rate at which they are being poached they will go extinct very soon unless something is done by the Government very soon.
Farm them, and kill the prices.
Every other solution is pretty much guaranteed to fail given the sheer cost and insanity of trying to ward off poachers in that terrain and with a local populace that poor.
What about “Snow Monkeys”?
Howz-by the taxpayers of India, China, and Mongolia pony up some funds.
Snow leopards in the Himalaya’s don’t make a hill-of-beans to the West. If it impacts the “eco-system” of the Himalaya’s, let the Himalayans solve it.
What a breathtaking cat!99% of all species that have ever lived are extinct
...Right at the same time that organisations such as Big Cat Rescue are pushing to ban the keeping and/or breeding of these animals in captivity. Because: “If they can’t be saved in the wild, and ONLY in the wild, better to let them slip into Dignified Extinction, than be subject to captive slavery.”
Dovetails right into the Twenty Year Extinction Plan®
Before they are all gone, I’d like to go over and get one. Would make a great addition to our den floor.