️ Snow leopards face immediate danger due to climate change, their habitat in the Third Pole warms around twice as fast as the Northern Hemisphere. Melting Himalayan glaciers, a key water source for 12 rivers and 16 countries, threaten not just leopards but one-third of humanity.
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00:00 So, snow leopard habitats, the third pole, is thought to be warming at twice the average rates of warming
00:08 that you see in the northern hemisphere.
00:11 So, it's a real challenge. It's a challenge that we're facing right now.
00:16 Already, we are seeing an increasing frequency as well as intensity of extreme climatic events.
00:22 Many of our partner communities in the high mountains of Asia, in the third pole,
00:27 are already suffering and facing consequences.
00:30 So, those landscapes are threatened.
00:32 Snow and glaciers also feed the ranginans, the grasslands, which is where all the snow leopard prey.
00:40 Mostly, they are the mountain ungulates, as they're called, the wild sheep and goats.
00:45 They are dependent on that grass and snow leopards are dependent on them.
00:51 Local communities and their livestock is also dependent on that grass.
00:55 We believe that snow leopards will definitely get indirectly affected.
00:59 Not just snow leopards, but humans as well as other wildlife in the third pole
01:06 is going to face an increasing risk of emerging infectious diseases.