Snow Leopard or Panthers Unica
By Bryanna Holland
Why is your species endangered?
Climate change poses perhaps the greatest long-term threat to snow leopards. Impacts from climate change could result in a loss of up to 30 percent of the snow leopard habitat in the Himalayas alone.
What is being done to help your species?
WWF works with local communities to monitor snow leopards and reduce the retaliatory killing of them through innovative local insurance plans.
Include at least 2 interesting facts about your species.
A snow leopard is a powerful hunter able to successfully take down an animal 3 times its own weight.
Snow leopards eat slowly, usually taking 3 or 4 days to consume a prey animal.