Sri Lanka's leopards are under threat, but this woman is determined to save them

Nobody knows how many leopards prowled Sri Lanka before its bloody civil war, but about 70% of the animals' habitat has been destroyed, says one conservationist -- and that's not the only threat. Here's how she plans to save them. CallToEarth

Having endured a bloody civil war from 1983 until 2009, Sri Lanka is now at peace and developing rapidly. That's good news for the country as a whole, but the island nation's leopards are under threat.

Sri Lankan conservationist Anjali Watson says that as forests where leopards live are cleared to plant crops and build homes, the big cats are being squeezed into pockets of wilderness that don't connect with each other."We've lost a lot of leopards," says Watson. Nobody knows how many prowled the land before the war, but about 70% of the animals' habitat has been destroyed, and only 750 to 1,000 adult leopards remain, she says.

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