modern research shows the tremendous cats’ global range has shrunk by a shocking amount over the last 250 yearsThe area of the world roamed by leopards has declined by three quarters over the last two and a half centuries,according to the most comprehensive effort yet to map the tremendous cat.
Researchers said they were shocked by the shrinking of the spotted hunter’s range, and that the decline had been far worse for several of the nine subspecies of leopards and in some parts of the world.
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Source: theguardian.com