According to the Snow Leopard Trust, there are between 3,500 and 7,000 snow leopards left in the wild. An estimated 200 to 420 of these live in the Hindu Kush and Karakoram mountains in Pakistan’s northern provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit Baltistan and Azad Kashmir.

Snow leopards hunt in some of the steepest terrain on Earth, where every movement carries risk. This video highlights moments when these cats leap from extreme heights to close in on prey. A miscalculated jump can result in serious injury or death,

Snow leopards cannot growl. So when we step towards one of these fierce predators, she's purring. "Lovely," as she's called, was orphaned and rescued 12 years ago in Pakistan-administered Gilgit-Baltistan. After years of relying on staff to feed her, she ...

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