There are 600-700 snow leopards in captivity. Only as few as 3,500 to 7,000 in the wild. Hundreds are killed every year. That is the adults. It is unknown how many slain females have cubs that will die without her.

World Wildlife Foundation works to help snow leopards, elephants, lions, cheetahs and other wildlife throughout the world. A good cause for donations. Cowardly poachers set traps which snare the leopards until the poachers come along and kill them.

I mentioned rhinos because park rangers with rifles in Africa actually follow the rhinos around in order to save the last few remaining rhinos in the wild. They are willing to kill poachers. Asian rhinos are even more endangered than those in Africa. The javan and Sumatran rhinos are down to as little as 100 individuals and as many as 300. I would like to see rangers with rifles protect the snow leopard. But the terrain is so rough. What is the solution?

Thank you for reading my poem.

In the painting a snow leopard sits among foliage with its beating heart showing. Hopefully there will always be some beating snow leopard hearts in the wild.

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