Mapping The Leopards

There are straightaway fewer than lx Amur leopards living inwards the wild. Part of the argue for this is the loss of the leopard's natural habitat. Leopards convey lost unopen to 66% of their natural habitat inwards Africa in addition to 85% inwards Eurasia. This loss of habitat in addition to the lawsuit on Leopards is explored inwards National Geographic's Learning to Live with Leopards.

National Geographic's study examines the human relationship betwixt human being in addition to leopard in addition to the lawsuit of the ascent human population on the survival of this regal animal. The study is accompanied past times an interactive map which shows the leopard's historic arrive at (in circa 1750) in addition to its arrive at today.

The map looks inwards plough at each of the subspecies of leopards (African, Arabian, Persian, Indian, Sri Lankan, Indochinese, Javan, North Chinese in addition to Amur). When you lot conduct i of the subspecies the map zooms inwards on that species' natural habitat. The map shows the historical arrive at in addition to the electrical flow arrive at of the selected subspecies of leopard, amongst the density of the human population. The map sidebar likewise reports on the estimated numbers left of each subspecies of leopard.

Via: Visualoop