His most recent trip took him to Iraq to help a rare and endangered species of leopard, an adult male Persian Leopard. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List ...

The Persian leopard soon became extinct, due to hunting and habitat destruction. Today there are almost no Persian leopards in the world, and there are only a few hundred leopards in Iran ...

Persian leopards (photographed at a safari park in the Netherlands) are one of the largest of the eight subspecies of leopard worldwide. Daley van de Sande via Unsplash Persian leopards ...

Though it’s a single sighting, the implications could be far-reaching. The Himalayan clouded leopard may, in fact, be just the tip of the iceberg—a sign of a yet-undiscovered population.

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