Snow Leopards May Soon Vanish, Thanks In Part To Climate Change

Snow Leopards May Soon Vanish, Thanks In Part To Climate Change,
October 22, 2015,
By Nick Visser, Reporter,
The Huffington Post,

Climate change is unforgiving when it comes to the world's most enigmatic species. Penguins have been forced to climb cliffs to breed as sea ice melts. Polar bears are starving to death as they lose the means to hunt. And coral reefs around the globe are turning ghostly white.

Now, according to a report released this week by the World Wildlife Fund, we have another creature to add to a growing list of the imperiled. Populations of snow leopards, considered among the most elusive big cats on the planet, have declined more than 20 percent over the past 16 years. Should climate change continue unchecked, more than a third of the animals' limited habitat may disappear.