Years of law enforcement efforts to combat snaring and poaching have proven ineffective in preventing the loss of Cambodia’s last remaining Indochinese leopard population, according to a recent study conducted by Panthera and the University of Oxford’s WildCRU. The study’s findings indicate that the subspecies, Panthera pardus delacouri, is now functionally extinct in Cambodia, with only a few individual leopards possibly remaining in the country’s forests. The research team conducted seven camera-trap surveys in Cambodia’s Eastern Plains between 2009 and 2019, revealing an 82% decline in the leopard population during that period. A subsequent survey in 2021 failed to find … Continue reading Cambodia’s Indochinese Leopards Functionally Extinct Despite Years of Enforcement: The Grim Reality