Thursday, March 26, 2009

snow leopards conservation

Today, i will be doing the conservation about snow leopards.
Snow leopards are value for their beautiful furs,white,yellowish or soft gray coat with black or brown spots.With their thick furs,they can adapt to the dry and cold habitat easily.
Snow leopards can live for about twenty one years in captivity but when it is left in the wild ,it is hard to determine their lifespan.
Snow leopards are mostly value for their furs and people illegally trade for their furs.snow leopards bones and body parts are an ingredient to make asian medicines.Their furs are turned into coats and other garment in central asia,easthern europe and russia.They are also increasing fights between human and snow leopards as they attack their livestock when food is hard to find.
There is only about three thousand and five hundred to seven thousand in the wild and about six hundred and seven hundred left in the zoos.They can be found in easthern china,russia,
Afghanistan and Kazakstan.China is made up of sixty persent of their habitat.snow leopards has already disappeared in mongolia.

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