Persuasive Essay On Snow Leopards

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Everyone likes big cats who can jump 9 meters high (30 ft), run as fast as the speed limit, and be as sneaky as a ghost. Well if that's you, and i know it is, you better read this because their population is decreasing rapidly and we need your help to stop it. Although the money, pelts, sights, and medicine is good, losing snow leopards forever is not worth it because it is skyrocketing herbivore population, illegal to kill them, and downright disappointing.
One problem with snow leopards being killed is that they do not obey the law that it is illegal to kill snow leopards. There are other people who are poaching snow leopards on accident without even knowing it. Some of the hunters in Siberia, the Himalayas, and Hindu Kush area are putting out traps to catch Siberian Musk Deer and are snatching snow leopards instead. The …show more content…

These organizations put together programs for people to follow that live in snow leopard habitats. Every single one of these programs cost a lot of money to put together and to fundraise them can take years. When people poach the snow leopards all of the money and time goes to waste. As it happens, “A lot of this conservation work would be covered by a $60 million program to save big cats in Russia that was agreed upon in late 2013: the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) fund was set to contribute $12.5 million to the five-year conservation plan, along with the World Wildlife Fund, the Russian government, and other partners.” (Antonova 28). All of the funding money is useless at this point because all of the poachers and herders are still making the population decrease anyways. The organizations all together, put in over $60 million for a program to save snow leopards. In the end, if people don't stop poaching snow leopards all of the time and money put into these organizations will go to

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