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Zafar-ul Islam, A.B.M.; Shehri, A.
Captive-breeding of Arabian Leopard _Panthera pardus nimr_ in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
2009 Wildlife Middle East (4): 2-2
NWRC has started a captive-breeding programme to secure the Arabian leopard and provide animals for future restocking or reintroduction. The establishment of a captive breeding programme is an important step in preventing the extinction of the Arabian leopard, even though not all leopards held in captivity on the Arabian Peninsula have yet been integrated into the breeding programme. In the meantime, most remnant populations will probably continue to decline. We do not know how much time we have left to save the Arabian leopard from extinction in the wild.
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