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The conservation charity World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has that climate change is the existence of the snow leopard in the Himalayas. Its Snow Leopard Programme says rising temperatures are the natural habitat of the big cat to the point that snow leopards could extinct. In a new report, the charity that up to a third of the mountainous areas where the leopards could become uninhabitable. Much of the flora and fauna the animals to survive could disappear in warmer temperatures. The WWF said: "The Himalayas region will a major crisis if we choose to climate change…We losing majestic species such as the snow leopard."

It isn't just climate change that is a serious threat to the future of the snow leopard. A variety of activities from humans is also to the dangers the animals . Snow leopards are highly after for their fur and body parts. More and more poachers are this lucrative, illegal trade and are the animals. The leopards are also killed by farmers who are trying to their livestock. As the natural prey of the snow leopards is decreasing, the animals are into areas inhabited by humans and killing farm animals. The result the farmers shoot the leopards. The WWF released its report on Friday, which was the first International Snow Leopard Day.