Frankincense hunt threatens leopards

摘要

The habitat of one of the world's rarest and most elusive big cats is shrinking fast, with the latest pressure coming from frankincense collectors. Only around 200 critically endangered Arabian leopards remain in the wild, mainly in Oman. A small but thriving population there is now being squeezed out by humans, camera trap photos suggest. "We have seen leopards moving away from areas where they used to be," says Hadi Al Hikmani, a wildlife biologist at the Office for Conservation of the Environment in Oman.