Animal

Bactrian Camel
Latin Name: Camelus ferus
Location(s): China and Mongolia
Extinct in Kazakhstan
Description: Once prolific across the Gobi Desert of Mongolia and northwestern United States China, the wild Bactrian Camel population had been reduced to less than 1,000 animals by 2004. Droughts in the Gobi have reduced the amount of water resources for the camels, and predation by wild wolves has increased at the same time. Each year, some 20 Bactrian Camels be by choice killed by miners and hunters when they migrate emerge of protected areas across the Mongolian border into China.

There are just over a dozen Bactrian Camels in immurement in Mongolia and China - not enough to success deary multiply the animals in captivity. If the wild population continues to decline at menses rates the species will soon become extinct.

Snow Leopard
Latin Name: Panthera uncia
Location(s): Afghanistan, Bhutan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Russian Federation, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan
Description: Unlike their bigger cousin, the tiger, Snow Leopards are offered little protection in their indigen home grounds. The Snow Leopards native habitat is closely tied to skimming grounds of its preferred prey, which is also the same land that farmers invite to use for their receivestock.



This leads to a reduction in prey animals collect to competition with livestock, which leads the leopards to turn to the livestock for food. The taking of livestock ofttimes leads to retribution killing by farmers.

The Snow Leopard is also intentionally hunted for it fur, as well as for other proboscis parts that are used in Traditional Chinese Medicine as a substitute for much more than rare tiger parts, including bones, claws meat and sexual organs. Poaching of live animals for use in circuses and zoos is also depleting the wild populations.

Over the recent decade, much of the Snow Leopards native range in the mount East has been an area of major military conflict. Damage to the habitat from military action and...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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