14/06/2021
More than 70% snow leopard habitat unexplored: WWF report.
A new report on snow leopards says just 23 per cent of the species’ 1.7 million sq km habitat had been explored by researchers.
More than 70 per cent habitat of the snow leopard, over 12 Asian countries, remains unresearched, the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) claimed in a recent report. This may have bearings on conservation of the species.
The report titled, Over 100 Years of Snow Leopard Research — A spatially explicit review of the state of knowledge in the snow leopard range, was released May 17, 2021.
It said:
Snow leopard research intensified in the 1970s and studies on snow leopards have continued to increase exponentially since then. However, just four hotspots of snow leopard research (sites with continued multi-year research) have emerged, with less than 23 per cent of the snow leopard range being researched.
Nepal, India and China had conducted the most snow leopard research, followed by Mongolia and Pakistan, according to the report
