Johannesburg – They’re part of South Africa’s iconic Big Five, but the country’s fragile and fractured leopard population is being wiped out by habitat loss, a declining population, illegal poaching for their skins and body parts and killed in retaliatory killings by farmers.These are among the reasons why the Landmark Foundation, an NGO which focuses on leopard and predator conservation, together with the Wild Animal Protection Forum of South Africa, has called for a ban on trophy leopard hunting.

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