“We will make all-out efforts with conservationists and wildlife experts to save the snow leopard from extinction”. PHOTO: FILE
Minister for Climate Change Mushahidullah Khan has pledged to protect snow leopard which is on the verge of extinction owing to illegal hunting and threats it its habitat.
Addressing a press conference here on Friday, he said that conservationists and wildlife experts will be brought on a single platform to use their expertise for conservation and protection of snow leopard.
The minister said that habitat degradation, reduction of natural prey due to illegal hunting, retribution killing for livestock loss were among major threats that have brought the cat to near extinction.
“We will make all-out efforts with conservationists and wildlife experts to save the snow leopard from extinction”.
“The population of the wild cat is fast shrinking due to various threats, it is necessary to take immediate decisions on conservation of snow leopards,” he said.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 28th, 2015.
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