Dangerous decline in Cambodia's leopard population.

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Leopard numbers dwindling, study finds
Fri, 5 August 2016
Erin Handley

Indochinese leopards should be classified as endangered, according to a new report that highlights the dwindling numbers of the species in Cambodia and Southeast Asia.

The study, published in Biological Conservation earlier this week, estimated a regional population of between 973 and 2,503 of the mammals.

Cambodia is thought to have just 132 leopards, with between 18 and 55 of those adults believed capable of breeding.

In Mondulkiri province the leopard, which is listed as “vulnerable” on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List, saw a 70 per cent decline between 2009 and 2014. Only two leopards have been detected in Preah Vihear province in the past three years.

“Poaching for the wildlife trade was likely the main reason for the decline of leopard numbers,” the report noted. “Recently interviewed poachers . . . received $55–$60 per [kilogram] of leopard bones from Vietnamese traders...
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Last Leopards
February 9, 2016
|By Justine Shanti Alexander

We have travelled to Cambodia’s most remote area, Mondulkiri Protected Forest (4,000 km2), to help assess the status of one of the last leopard populations of Southeast Asia.

Our task this dry season of 2016 is to determine whether a viable population of leopards remain, as part of a broader program led by Dr. Jan Kamler from Panthera (http://www.panthera.org) – a conservation organization for large cats- to monitor and help conserve the remaining population of leopards throughout Southeast Asia. We set out early in the morning with our motorbikes using those same abused roads. We set up camera traps that will hopefully capture all the leopards, including Keiko, the large dominant male last detected in 2014. On our way we do observe the pug marks and scats of other smaller carnivore species, including leopard cat, jungle cat, civets and jackals...
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Possibly only 55 in the country able to reproduce and they're only classified as "vulnerable"? Christ, that must make humans a viral epidemic of some sort.
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Who sang about a woman with a leopardskin pillbox hat?
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Another big predator in Southeast Asia faces extinction
Jeremy Hance Wednesday 31 August 2016

At best, just 2,500 Indochinese leopards survive today across Southeast Asia. They have been eradicated from 93% of their historic habitat by snares, poachers, deforestation and declines in prey. Can conservationists stop the bleeding before its too late?

Although the Indochinese leopard was historically found in habitats across the region, the study found just two remaining strongholds for the subspecies: peninsular Malaysia and the Northern Tenasserim Forest Complex (spanning the border of Thailand and Myamnar). A third site was identified as a priority – the eastern plains region of Cambodia – due to the fact that the small population of leopards here have evolved some wild daring behaviors.
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Cambodia’s banteng-hunting leopards
Leopards are known for tackling an increadly wide variety of prey, but much of that is small and medium-bodied. Not so of Cambodia’s leopards. An upcoming study by Susana Rostro-Garcia, a research student with Wildlife Research Conservation Unit (WildCRU), found that male leopards in Cambodia’s dry forests routinely tackled one of the biggest animals in the area: banteng. These distinctly-coloured wild cattle – themselves endangered – can weigh more than ten times the leopard at their heels.

Rostro-Garcia, who was also the lead author on the Indochinese leopard study, said that her research in Cambodia’s Eastern Plains is the “first study to show that the main prey of leopards was over 500 kg.”
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Rostro-Garcia, who was also the lead author on the Indochinese leopard study, said that her research in Cambodia’s Eastern Plains is the “first study to show that the main prey of leopards was over 500 kg.”

Well-nourished NGO wimmin should be driven into the bush to keep these fine predators adequately fed
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Public Release: 1-Mar-2018
New study confirms Cambodia's last leopards on brink of extinction

New York, NY - A new study has confirmed that the world's last breeding population of leopards in Cambodia is at immediate risk of extinction, having declined an astonishing 72% during a five-year period. The population represents the last remaining leopards in all of eastern Indochina - a region incorporating Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.

The report was published this month in the Royal Society Open Science journal by Oxford University's Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU), Panthera - the global wild cat conservation organization, WWF-Cambodia, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Forestry Administration of the Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries of Cambodia.

Carried out in Cambodia's Eastern Plains Landscape, the study revealed one of the lowest concentrations of leopards ever reported in Asia, with a density of one individual per 100 square kilometers. Increased poaching, especially indiscriminate snaring for the illegal wildlife trade and bushmeat, is to blame for the dramatic decline.

Panthera Southeast Asia Leopard Program Coordinator and study coauthor, Dr. Jan Kamler, stated, "This population represents the last glimmer of hope for leopards in all of Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam - a subspecies on the verge of blinking out. No longer can we, as an international community, overlook conservation of this unique wild cat."

Historically found throughout all of Southeast Asia, the Indochinese leopard has lost 95% of its range and is likely to be classified as Critically Endangered by IUCN later this year. A separate study recently authored by WildCRU, Panthera and partners estimates just over 1,000 breeding adult Indochinese leopards remain in all of Southeast Asia. However, just 20-30 reproductive individuals remain in eastern Cambodia, representing the last hope for the leopard's future in eastern Indochina...
https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/201 ... 030118.php

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An adaptable but threatened big cat: density, diet and prey selection of the Indochinese leopard (Panthera pardus delacouri) in eastern CambodiaPublished 7 February 2018.
http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/ ... 5/2/171187
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humans dont deserve wildlife =@
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The Indochinese leopards' biggest problem is poaching say the experts. But how to protect the leopards, when the Cambodian rangers themselves are coming under fire from armed poachers connected to the military ?

Indochinese leopard population declines
By Dana Kobilinsky
Posted on March 27, 2018
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One of the last population of Indochinese leopards is caught in a camera trap photo in eastern Cambodia. Researchers found in just five years, the population declined by over 70 percent. ©Panthera/WWF Cambodia/Forestry Administration

Only one population of Indochinese leopards (Panthera pardus delacouri) remains in all of eastern Indochina, and that population is facing a steep decline, according to new research.

Comparing camera trap data from 2009 to data collected five years later in eastern Cambodia, researchers determined this last remaining population declined 72 percent. The leopard once appeared throughout all of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.
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“This was the last population in all three of those countries,” said TWS member Jan Kamler, the Southeast Asia Coordinator for the Panthera leopard program and co-author of the study led by co-researcher Susana Rostro-Garcia from the University of Oxford. “That was surprising, of course.”

The reason, Kamler said, is snaring by poachers. “If poaching could be controlled and limited, populations could do well,” he said.
To stop extinction, Kamler said, the burden rests on rangers to reduce poaching. Since the study, he said, rangers have attempted to increase patrols and snare sweeps, but in the 4,000-square-kilometer park where the population exists, patrolling is difficult.

“Poaching is not under control and there’s not much enforcement in those protected areas,” he said. “For the leopard population, we don’t need to worry about prey. We have to worry about snaring. That is the biggest factor that caused their decline.”
http://wildlife.org/indochinese-leopard ... -declines/
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