Nepal snow leopard threatened by climate change

Agence France-Presse: Nepal's elusive snow leopards, thought to number just 500 in the wild, are under threat from warmer and wetter weather in the Himalayas that is reducing their habitat, a new study says. Changing weather patterns are pushing forests further into the leopards' territory and they could lose 40 percent of their hunting grounds by the end of the century, scientists from environmental group WWF have concluded. "Loss of alpine habitat not only means less room for snow leopards, but also has the potential...

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