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- 10/23/2015 22:34:56 / agency Xinhua
A report released today by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) reveals that more than a third of the habitat of the snow leopard could be lost if climate change is not contained <. /> p>
“Warmer temperatures could cause forest boundaries extend to the mountains and farmers to grow crops and bring their cattle to graze at higher altitudes, which would make the remaining leopards are confined in smaller areas, “the report titled” fragile connections. Snow leopards, humans, water and climate change “
elusive and rarely seen by humans, snow leopards to often they called the “ghosts of mountains”. As living near the edge of the snow of high mountains of Central Asia, the endangered species reflect the ecology of the high altitude.
According to the report, there could be around 4,000 leopards Snow. In the past 16 years, its population has declined by at least 20 per cent and continues to fall.
The report indicates that the greatest loss and degradation of habitat, poaching and conflict with communities are the main reasons for the decline. It also warns that “unchecked climate change will exacerbate these threats and could lead to the species to the limit”.
Not only is the snow leopard species that is in danger, also millions of people who depend water directly from rivers that originate in the habitat of the leopard, the report added.
“Climate change could dramatically alter water flow down from the mountains, threatening the livelihoods of large numbers of people across the continent, “the report said.
” Urgent action is needed to stop climate change and prevent further degradation of the habitat of snow leopard, “said Rishi Kumar Sharma, a global leader Snow Leopard WWF. “Otherwise” the ghosts of the mountains’ could fade, along with essential water supply for hundreds of millions of people. ” F
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