Snow leopard facts

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Snow leopard facts

The snow leopard is listed as globally Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List and the species is listed (as Uncia uncia) on Appendix I of CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora), which prohibits international trade in the animal and its parts and products except under exceptional, non-commercial circumstances. Mongolia listed a snow leopard in its Red List in 1972 to prohibit hunting and later in 2000 listed as an endangered species. The estimated size of the snow leopard’s distributional range is about 1.8 million km2, with the largest share in the Tibetan plateau of China, followed by Mongolia and India. There is, however, a great deal of uncertainty about the snow leopard’s current distribution, as there is about the size of the total snow leopard population, which is roughly estimated at between 4,000 and 6,500 individuals. In Mongolia the population is estimated to be about 1000.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]