In fight to save leopard, ‘every cub counts’, says conservationist

Emma Gallacher, Conservation Initiatives Senior Specialist at The Royal Commission for AlUla, talks about the ongoing efforts to save the Arabian leopard.

Now ‘Critically Endangered’, this big cat’s population appears to have reached such a critically low level that the species may not survive in the wild without a reintroduction programme using captive-bred animals.

The leopard is the focus of an ongoing rewilding project in Saudi Arabia, and a new book by Assouline, out in July 2022 and launched at a prestigious event in London.