Lilly



Hey, I'm Lilly and im a 3 year old Snow leopard. I love playing round With my friends and hunting for animals, to eat.

I live 3,000 to 5,500 metres above sea level.Central south Asia is mostly where i live.Im not certain but there is around 3,000 and 7,000 of us snow leopards left in the wild and an estimate of 600 and 700 in zoos around the world.We are not like other cats we are much smaller, we weigh between 27 to 55 kilogramsand our body length is usually 75 to 130 centimetres long.Our tails also add 75 to 90 percent on to that length.

We are one of the top predators in central Asia.We are capable Of killing animals three times or own body weight.We mostly hunt wild sheeps and goats.They are found in the asian mountains, around where we live.

As there are not many of us left in the world, Humans hunting us down does not help, they hunt us down for our coats.Although we are great at hiding and camouflaging, somehow there still are not may of us left in the world.Hunters continue to kill our species for our coats, apparently our coats are a beautiful misty gray colour and are great for rugs and different things, it's real sad isn't it ?



We eat very slowly, It usually takes us up to 3 or 4 days to cosume a whole animal.During that time, we stay around the animal we hunted down, making sure no one else will steel what we worked for. During the summer time we also eat small animals such as pikas, hares, and other small rodents. In some areas we will consume materials of plants, this is mostly during mating season, for nurtients.

BLOGS:

Thursday the 9th of June. As there are not many of us left in the world, Humans hunting us down does not help, they hunt us down for our coats.Although we are great at hiding and camouflaging, somehow there still are not may of us left in the world.Hunters continue to kill our species for our coats, apparently our coats are a beautiful misty gray colour and are great for rugs and different things, it's real sad isn't it ?



Tueday the 12th of June. I think we can be protected by the humans that don't hunt us down, as they can take us to safer grounds, such as zoos.At the zoos, obviously we won't get hunted done cause we will be in a caged area.They can also breed us, making there lots of of our species left, and we will be around a lot longer.There is also another way that we can be protected, in areas that we live in, they can make it illegal for humans to hunt us down and skin us for our beautiful coats. They can also make a inforcement that, there is too be no selling snowleopards in black markets. And if someone is found hunting down one of our species, they will be fined a few hundred dollars, im sure by then they will learn there lesson.

Tuesday the 12th of June. Major achievements so far are different organisations for different animals that are soon going to be extinct.Zoos are also very helpful as they are looking after our type of species.It's great that they are trying very hard too try and bread some more Snow leopards.

http://www.snowleopardconservancy.org/kids/text/endangered.htm