Beschreibung:
The world is currently facing an accelerated loss of biodiversity, which is considered a human-induced mass extinction. Large carnivores face a multitude of anthropogenic threats and are particularly prone to local extirpation due to their biological traits, including low reproductive rates and large spatial requirements. These animals play key ecological roles at the top of natural food webs and are of high socio-economic relevance, making their protection a priority in biodiversity conservation. This also applies to the snow leopard (Panthera uncia), which represents a top predator in hig...