Cape Leopards are extremely elusive apex predators which have someway survived in opposition to the percentages within the Cape’s fold mountain ranges. This makes them very tough to check, and the Cape Leopard Belief (CLT) have launched a contest for the general public to submit sightings of leopards or any indicators of leopard exercise throughout the Western Cape.
With fewer than 1 000 estimated Cape leopards left remaining within the wild, the CLT collects knowledge on leopard exercise and data on threats to the large cats.
As a way to receive as many information as attainable, the CLT is particularly searching for citizen observations in three sparse areas:
- Southern Namaqualand: the Matzikama native municipality and reaching throughout the provincial border into the Kamiesberg and Hantam municipalities of the Northern Cape
- Southern Cape: significantly the Hessequa native municipality
- Central Karoo: the central Karoo district municipality together with Beaufort West; Laingsburg and Prins Albert native municipalities
Although the CLT has launched a contest, the purpose is to collect extra knowledge factors that might presumably contribute in the direction of defending the Cape’s mountain leopards .
Prizes can be awarded for the next classes:
- Greatest leopard digicam lure photograph from the Western Cape
- Most knowledge submissions in the course of the competitors interval
- Data from the southern Namaqualand – fortunate draw
- Data from the southern Cape – fortunate draw
- Data from the central Karoo – fortunate draw
Sightings can include digicam lure pictures, leopard indicators (spoor, droppings, scratch marks on timber, feeding websites) and direct observations. You possibly can click on right here to submit your photograph through e-mail: [email protected].
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