{"id":43660,"date":"2022-04-19T15:30:19","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T06:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/19\/trophy-hunters-tajikistan-unlikely-saviours-snow-leopard-conservation-aoe"},"modified":"2022-04-19T15:30:19","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T06:30:19","slug":"why-trophy-hunters-in-tajikistan-are-unlikely-saviours-of-the-snow-leopard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43660","title":{"rendered":"Why trophy hunters in Tajikistan are unlikely saviours of the snow leopard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Revenue brought in by westerners hunting markhor, ibex and wild sheep is being used to conserve the elusive big cat and provide income for villages in the mountainous region<\/p>\n<p>There are few mammals that capture our imagination more than<em> <\/em>the rare and elusive snow leopard. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iucnredlist.org\/species\/22732\/50664030\">Listed as vulnerable<\/a> on the red list of threatened species, fewer than 7,000 <em>Panthera uncia<\/em> are thought to remain across the high mountains of Asia. Of these, an estimated 5% live in Tajikistan\u2019s Pamir mountains, the third-highest ecosystem in the world after the Himalayan and Karakoram ranges. Here, against the odds, the leopards appear to be thriving.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Tajikistan, the situation with snow leopards is optimistic because the population is visibly increasing,\u201d says Khalil Karimov, a wildlife biologist and scientific adviser to the Association of Nature Conservation Organisations of Tajikistan (Ancot). \u201cWe have between 350 and 450 cats, although the exact number is impossible to say due to the nature of the leopards and the remote environment they inhabit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/19\/trophy-hunters-tajikistan-unlikely-saviours-snow-leopard-conservation-aoe\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revenue brought in by westerners hunting markhor, ibex and wild sheep is being used to conserve the elusive big cat and provide income for villages in the mountainous regionThere are few mammals that capture our imagination more than the rare and elusi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[265,456,65,61,1081,94,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-conservation","category-environment","category-south-and-central-asia","category-tajikistan","category-wildlife","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43661,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43660\/revisions\/43661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}