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The general well-being of wildlife,
especially large animals such as big cats,
is a measure of the 'health' of their surrounding environment. Allowing
species to become endangered through hunting, poisoning and the destruction of
their habitat alters the natural balance of
an area, which contributes to global
change that can irrevocably change the environment.
At the current rates of loss, the World
Wildlife Fund (WWF) predicts that many
of the world's species of wild cats could become extinct within the next 25 years.
And we could even be responsible for
wiping out creatures, such as the Clouded Leopard, that we didn't know existed,
altering the planet forever.
WWF recently announced that the
exquisitely marked but rarely seen
Clouded Leopard, which lives and
hunts in the rainforest on the islands of
Borneo and Sumatra, has been found
to be an entirely separate big-cat species.
As different as a lion is to a tiger or a
jaguar to a snow leopard, the main
threat these cats face is human
destruction of their habitat. |
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