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The Arabian leopard (Panthera pardus nimr) is the smallest leopard subspecies. It was described in 1830 and is native to the Arabian Peninsula , where it was widely distributed in rugged hilly and montane terrain until the late 1970s.
Panthera’s work in the Middle East focuses on the Arabian Peninsula. With the support provided by the Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU), there is a strong focus on leopards, and specifically on restoring and conserving leopards in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). [28]
He has worked with a number of wildlife agencies concerned with conservation of Arabian wildlife – including The Arabian Leopard Trust and the Environmental Research and Wildlife Development Agency (ERWDA) – and has made significant photographic contributions to these agencies.
Gardner says the Arabian wolf and striped hyena have both gone extinct from the UAE in recent decades, and a small population of Arabian leopards that lived the Hajar Mountains until the mid-1990s ...
Opened in 2016, the Conservation Centre is a 12 km 2 (4.6 sq mi) wildlife sanctuary and visitor centre, with some 30 animals preserved at the centre, including Arabian leopards, [1] which are thought to now be extinct in the wild in the United Arab Emirates. [2]
Arabian Leopards on the Edge in Oman - Build national capacity for safeguarding the long-term viability of the Arabian leopard and its habitat in Jebel Samhan through provision of baseline habitat and population data to establish a conservation plan for mitigating human-wildlife conflict, habitat loss and other threats, and to set up a ...
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Measures have been put in place to protect the beaches where the endangered green sea turtle breed, [11] a leopard conservation trust has been set up, and the Arabian Oryx Sanctuary was established and became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994. However, the Omani government later reduced the size of the protected area by about 90% to allow ...