Identifying Priority Areas for the Indian Leopard () Within a Shared Landscape.

Habitat loss is one of the primary drivers of large felid decline. The leopard (), a generalist large felid species, has the behavioural and dietary flexibility to exploit different habitat types of varying human influence. Understanding habitat selection in a shared landscape is critical for the development of conservation strategies and managing negative human-leopard interactions.

Every hill has its leopard: patterns of space use by leopards () in a mixed use landscape in India.

Understanding abundance and distribution of species is often necessary for wildlife conservation. However, elusive species such as the leopard () that have wide geographical distribution and typically low abundance pose a constant challenge to conservationists due to logistical and methodological constraints. Although leopard abundance has been estimated at the scale of protected areas or other smaller regions, reliable information describing leopard distribution over large spatial scales remains largely unavailable.

Tracing the geographic origin of traded leopard body parts in the indian subcontinent with DNA-based assignment tests.

Illicit trade in wildlife products is rapidly decimating many species across the globe. Such trade is often underestimated for wide-ranging species until it is too late for the survival of their remaining populations. Policing this trade could be vastly improved if one could reliably determine geographic origins of illegal wildlife products and identify areas where greater enforcement is needed.