{"id":18076,"date":"2024-02-05T04:52:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T04:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=18076"},"modified":"2024-02-05T04:52:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T04:52:26","slug":"afghan-authorities-capture-rare-snow-leopard-after-livestock-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/02\/afghan-authorities-capture-rare-snow-leopard-after-livestock-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan authorities capture rare snow leopard after livestock killed"},"content":{"rendered":"

FAIZABAD, BADAKHSHAN (SW) Afghan authorities captured a rare snow leopard in the country’s mountainous northeast and were preparing to release it back into the wild after it reportedly killed dozens of livestock animals, a conservation group, said on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The endangered leopard was captured on Thursday night after becoming trapped in a livestock enclosure in the rural Zibak district of Badakhshan province, savaging some 30 animals, the district’s deputy governor Abdulrahman Kasra told AFP.<\/p>\n

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The juvenile leopard was transported to provincial capital Faizabad and was being held at the governor’s compound, he added.<\/p>\n

The head of the Wildlife Conservation Society office in Badakhshan said a veterinarian had treated a minor injury to the big cat’s leg and that it would be released back into the wild.<\/p>\n

“The authorities have promised us they will release the leopard back to the Zibak district soon,” Khorosh Sahel said.<\/p>\n

The mountainous northeast of Afghanistan is one of the few habitats of the elusive leopards, dubbed the “ghosts of the mountains”.<\/p>\n

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They are listed as “vulnerable” species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), with numbers decreasing due to climate change impacts, habitat loss and poaching.<\/p>\n

Experts warn that warmer temperatures can push tree lines higher and prompt farmers to move further up mountains to plant crops and graze livestock, encroaching on snow leopard territory.<\/p>\n

In a similar incident last year, some 40 livestock animals were reportedly killed by a snow leopard in Badakhshan.<\/p>\n

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