Despite being so well adapted to their mountain home, snow leopards are under threat
Editor's Note: Call to Earth is a CNN initiative in partnership with Rolex. Shafqat Hussain is a Rolex Awards Laureate.
For over 20 years, environmental anthropologist Shafqat Hussain has been working to protect snow leopards in his native Pakistan. Situated in the north of the country, the Gilgit-Baltistan region is home to three of the highest mountain ranges on Earth. This rocky terrain is perhaps"the best snow leopard habitat in the world," according to Hussain. "These magnificent creatures can live at 20,000 feet, in rarefied air, in minus 30 degrees centigrade," he says.
Protecting Pakistan's elusive snow leopards 04:00Read MoreTheir numbers are difficult to estimate, but IUCN data from 2016 suggests there are around 250 in Pakistan and a total of around 7,500 snow leopards across 12 countries in Central and South Asia, although a recent report shows that less than 25% of their range has been properly researched.
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