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| Waseem, M.; Kabir, M. | |
| Human leopard conflict assessment in Pir Lasora National Park Kotli, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan | |
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As human population expand and encroach ever further into natural habitats, humans and wildlife increasingly has to compete over living space and food. Asian big cats are suffering not only from significant habitat loss, but also from decline in their prey species within the habitat that remains. As a result, cats are moving into more marginal areas searching food, finding easy prey in domestic livestock and also attack humans. Many communities in Asia are heavily dependent on their livestock for sustenance and income, and therefore when livestock predation occurs, cats are captured, killed in retaliation or actively persecuted to prevent similar events happening in the future. These killings are a significant threat to the survival of many Asian cat species. A specific questionnaire was developed to collect information regarding human leopard conflict and retaliatory killing of common leopard. A total of 12 leopards were killed, 02 were trapped from the area and 03 human beings were attacked and badly injured by the leopard at different locations. Retaliatory killing of common leopard occurred in different parts and around the protected areas. This is in addition to the killings that might have done without being noticed or reported. Detail of the capturing and retaliatory killing of common leopard described as below. |
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