
In devastating and unexpected news for the leopard, a study from Panthera, the global wild cat conservation organization, in collaboration with Oxford University’s WildCRU, has found that the Critically Endangered Indochinese leopard is now functionally extinct in Cambodia. Published by Biological Conservation, the study’s findings additionally signal the disappearance of the subspecies from all of eastern Indochina (i.e., Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam). The leopard was last recorded in Laos in 2004 and in Vietnam in the early 2000s.