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Leopards in Western Turkey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

Markus Borner
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Abstract

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The leopard Panthera pardus tulliana survives in south-west Turkey, but after a two-month survey there for the World Wildlife Fund, the author shows that numbers are so small and the people's attitudes so hostile that this subspecies is probably doomed to extinction; leopards found in eastern Turkey are the Persian subspecies saxicolor. Other large predators are disappearing too, and the author urges the need to establish several large reserves, for which the Turkish Government's planned wildlife survey will provide the data.

Type
Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , July 1977 , pp. 26 - 30
Copyright
Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1977

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