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Keep Snow Leopards from Extinction

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  • Start Date:
    11-2-2007
  • Last Signed:
    7-3-2008

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As few as 3,500 Snow Leopards are left in the wild today. The snow leopard is supremely adapted to its mountain home – with their thick furry tails nearly as long as the rest of their bodies, dense, woolly fur and markings that camouflage them against the rocky slopes.

 

The main threat to the snow leopard's survival comes from human activities. Snow leopards are hunted illegally for their pelts. They also face retribution killings from herders over livestock and their habitat is being degraded and fragmented.

Many people in the mountain communities throughout snow leopard habitat live on less than $1 a day. They just don't have resources to protect snow leopards. Luckily, snow leopards have a unprecedented opportunity for added protection from the U.S. Government through the Great Cats and Rare Canids Act - making its way through Congress right now!

Tell Congress to support The Great Cats and Rare Canids Act, and provide much needed funding to protect Snow Leopards and other rare species.

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Dont thise filthy slimy poachers realise they need the fur a LOT more than humans do? Even though i live in new zealand and we dont have them here they are still beautiful animals that deserve their rights! im with you!

I just wish that people would like see what their doing to the beautiful creatures that live in the wild that are becoming endangered because of them!

Ill sign for those precious animals.
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Dear Congresperson,

Please support The Great Cats and Rare Canids Act. Please help to provide much needed funding to protect Snow Leopards and other rare species.

Thank You,
Aila Dismore
6 years old

We are all on this small spinning object together- so let's show some restraint. Not one species is more important than another.

cooooooooooooool

God gave us a beautiful world and man is destroying it! We need to respect all animals, they are here for a reason.Each time an animal becomes extinct, ther order of things is disturbed. The snow lepord is a part of God's world and was heere before we were. we should protect it .

We should protect all animals big or small, so that our children and their children's children can see them and love them for what they are.

Let save all the animals for our children generation.

Let's change the world for the better. Snow Leopards, Tigers and Cheetahs all need our help. Cheetahs are down to 12,000 animals. Please that wear fur are Neandrathals, Sadists and petty snobs. I don't where leather jackets either. Maybe if they lowered the value of their pelts it would decrease. It takes several animals to make a fur coat.

snow leopards are beautiful creatures and i dont think they should be hunted because someone thinks their fur coat would be a good throw rug... shame

I love all the big cats. I recently saw them on Animal Planet. My favorite in of course the tigers. They are also in danger of extinction. You have my support for saving the Snow Leopards!

amen charlotte,I've never seen a snow leopard and I love cat creatures,and what a beutiful animal,when I heard about the white tiger biting the trainer on back of the neck I knew right away,people saying it should be put down,I knew if you ever owned pets or watch nature shows the way cats pick up there young behind the neck and the guy even said it was his fault later and how he thought it was trying to protect him by pulling him out of danger the only way it knew because something had gone wrong during the act,I just don't see why it would be hunted,people get mad at me for telling them I just don't see it its not a sport to me it never will be

What have cats ever done to us? they keep us company and some large pet cats such as tigers even protect people as well as give them love and cuddles. Many people think lions, leopards etc. are dangerous but they are no more dangerous than your average domestic cat. If a cat fears for its life or safety or that of anothers it will act in the only way it knows how, using its natural animal instincts, defence. It will either strike with its nature given claws or bite with its powerful jaws. However it acts, it acts because it needs to. So if you ever find yourself in a cats den, unless it knows you, it might pounce because your in its comfort zone, in its haven, in its safe place, it will think you are going to attack so it will warn you off. It wont actually kill you like people say, but it might accidentally scratch you.
i watched this program about a man who has his own lion, which he's kept since it was a cub, it resounds in his backyard. It has its own cage of course but mainly for its own benefit, so it has its own enclosure, home. He plays with the lion who is absolutely huge, one of the biggest and about 3 times the mans weight and size. When he played with it, it caught him slightly with his claw, but it wasn't deep at all. Just like a normal cat scratch.
So don't judge a cat by its stripes, or spots in a leopards case, until you know all the facts.
So make sure you support the great cats, especially since most of them are endangered. And just think about your pet cats at home and ask yourself would you like this to happen to them and what are you going to do about there ancestors that are struggling for survival, facing extinction and even getting hunted down. You've heard about people killing cats for their coats, well guess what were not just talking about past tense here, were talking about present!

How can people harm these beautiful creatures? Just leave them along. They have the right to live!

These animals are so beautiful, amazing. I really hope they are given the chance to come back & thrive.

Please do as much as you can to save those wonderful animals.

I can't believe that people would kill these animals just for their skin! SAVE THE SNOW LEOPARD

**** us and our activities that harm our God given gifts

They are such beautiful animals, what possible harm they could do? Are we humans going to destroy every animal species on this Earth? It sometimes seems so. I'm going to look up if snow leopards exist in Canada and if they are being hunted to extinction here. I hope the U.S. law is passed to protect these beautiful animals.

These are such beautiful animals, killing them should be stopped.

These gorgeous creatures must live.

This is to all the readers that u all must have some compassion and pity for animals.SNOW LEOPARDS are woderful creatures created by god,being a member of planet earth,it is our duty to save and protect them,therefore i strongly sport this act.

snow leopards are amongst the few white furred animals left in the world. why do ppl always feel they must destroy nature's wonders is beyond me but if i can do anything to prevent them then i'll do so gladly.

These Animals have done nothing wrong!! They grace us with their prescence and waht do we do? Get rid of them!!! This is not right!!! SAVE THE ANIMALS!!!

Absolutely right, no need of discussion. These gorgeous creatures must live.

Absolutely right, no need of discussion. These gorgeous creatures must live.

Totally agree with Melissa H. Save the animals!!!

We are the farmers that killed the goose that laid the golden egg. Soon we will control the planet and will be kings of all we survey - desolation. This beauty is irriplacable - I fully support this campaign

I aggree with Nikki S.

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