Leopard on the prowl, in the Indian jungle

A leopard walks through tall grasses at a jungle in India. The Indian leopard (Panthera pardus fusca) is a subspecies widely distributed on the Indian subcontinent. It is one of the five big cats found in India, apart from Asiatic lion, Bengal tiger, snow leopard and clouded leopard.

In 2008, the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) classified leopards as Near Threatened, stating that they may soon qualify for the Vulnerable status due to loss of habitat and fragmentation, heavy poaching for the illegal trade of skins and body parts in Asia, and persecution due to conflict situations. They are becoming increasingly rare outside protected areas. The trend of the population is decreasing.

On the Indian subcontinent, topographical barriers to the dispersal of the subspecies are the Indus River in the west, and the Himalayas in the north. In the east, the lower course of the Brahmaputra River and the Ganges Delta form natural barriers to the distribution of the Indo-Chinese leopard. This subspecies is distributed all over India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and parts of Pakistan. They are found in the tropical rain forests, dry deciduous forests, temperate forests and northern coniferous forests up to an altitude of 2,500 meters (8,200 ft) above sea level, bordering snow leopard habitat. Mangrove forest of the Sundarbans, abode of Bengal Tiger, is the only tiger reserve in India where leopards have never been seen. It’s the Bangladeshi side of the forest that reported about the only sighting of a leopard in 1931.

Source : http://tigertribe.net/

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