#0528 · 🦊 mammals

Snow Leopard

🇳🇱 Sneeuwluipaard ·Panthera uncia

VUvulnerable 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

what is it?

The snow leopard or ounce ( Panthera uncia ) is a large cat native to the mountain ranges of Central and South Asia. It is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species because the global population is estimated to number less than 10,000 mature individuals and decline about 10% in the next 23 years. As of 2016, the global population was estimated at 4,500 to 8,745 mature individuals.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 1,236iNaturalist observations
threat VUvulnerable

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
1,236 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber in 1775 (251 years ago).
Listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.