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Bushmeat trade starts to affect leopard

Adam Khor · 2011-09-08 17:26:15

Leopards may be the most adaptable big cats, but even they are starting to decline in the African rainforests due to overhunting- not on themselves, but on their natural prey. http://news.mongabay.com/2011/0825-hance_leopard_bushmeat.html

08-09-2011 5:26pm

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Adam Khor

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Leopards may be the most adaptable big cats, but even they are starting to decline in the African rainforests due to overhunting- not on themselves, but on their natural prey.

http://news.mongabay.com/2011/0825-hance_leopard_bushmeat.html

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When you see places like the DR Congo adding 2 million extra people every year, its hard to see these forests escaping the "silent forest syndrome" so prevalent already in countries like Myanmar, Thailand, Laos etc.:(

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#3 08-09-2011 11:19pm

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India, too. That's why leopards, tigers and wolves show up in cities looking for food...

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