Articles by Gemma Sherlock

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Oldest snow leopard in British zoo dies

Pav's DNA has been donated to cryogenic preservation charity Nature's Safe, which aims to help save snow leopards from extinction. Mrs Marsden said Pav's enclosure would temporarily be turned into a Lynx enclosure, as it welcomed the animals on loan from Edinburgh Zoo. There are hopes the zoo will welcome more snow leopards next year. "We are hoping some cubs will be ready to come to us. The zoo feels very different without Pav," she said. Snow leopards are classified as vulnerable and on the red list of threatened animals due to loss of habitat, climate change, poaching and human-wildlife conflict. The cats are native to the mountains of Central Asia. According to the Snow Leopard Trust, their habitat range covers around the size of Greenland and Mexico, despite there only being between 3,920 and 6,390 snow leopards left in the wild.