Hunters kill one of last surviving Amur Leopards - Reuters

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Hunters kill one of last surviving Amur Leopards

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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Hunters in Russia's Far East have shot and
killed one of the last seven surviving female Amur leopards living in
the wild, WWF said on Monday, driving the species even closer to
extinction.

Last week environmentalists said there were only between 25 and 34
Amur leopards -- described as one of the most graceful cats in the
world -- still living in the wild.

At least 100 are needed to guarantee the species' survival which
depends upon female leopards breeding. There are more male leopards
in the wild than female because cats tend to breed males when under
stress, WWF said.

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A hunter shot the leopard through the tail bone. It tumbled over and
was then beaten over the head with a heavy object, WWF said. Amur
leopards have not been know to attack humans.

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Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070423/sc_nm/russia_leopard_dc

[texastoast]

1. Who was the animal there?

Humans can be so freaking disgusting.

[jilln]

6. Point of language

Why say that someone "acts like an animal" if all that does is allow people to continue treating animals as inferior instead of simply different beings?

[acmavm]

2. Time to shoot a certain hunter if you ask me. Planet Earth, that

WONDERFUL series on Discovery Channel said last night that there are only 30 Amur leopards life int he wild.

They are such amazingly beautiful creatures.

[Javaman]

3. When we destroy nature, we destroy a part of ourselves...

we are killing ourselves as a race one cut at at time.

[LibertyorDeath]

4. Can someone kill these fucking Hunters

No real hunter would kill the last of any species.

Lets put these sick fucks in a cage

time for a canned hunt...

[YankeyMCC]

5. Oh gee

that hunter must be proud! :sarcasm:

[lakeguy]

7. some disgustingly wealthy repubs in the US

have probably already lined up to buy the stuffed carcass.:puke: