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Source: Indian Express<\/strong><\/p>\n The study has<\/span> identified four species from around the world at the highest risk of extinction due to road kills.<\/span><\/p>\n Among them, the <\/span>Leopard population of North India<\/span><\/a> faces an 83% increased risk of extinction <\/span>due to roadkill. It <\/span>estimates that the time for the North Indian leopard population\u2019s extinction is at 33 years.<\/span><\/p>\n The leopard is followed by the maned wolf<\/strong> and the little spotted cat, both of Brazil, and the brown hyena of Southern Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n Other populations found highly vulnerable include the<\/span> lion-tailed macaque <\/span><\/a>(Macaca silenus) and sloth bear (Melursus ursinus) in South India.<\/span><\/p>\n Hotspot Regions of Roadkills<\/b><\/p>\n The study has identified Sub-Saharan Africa and south-eastern Asia as regions where roads can lead to loss of mammalian biodiversity.<\/span><\/p>\n Therefore, these are the areas where future road development and road mitigation need to be carefully considered.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>This post is based on the article <\/span>\u201c<\/b>Telling Numbers: Roadkill and extinction risk for leopards in North India<\/b>\u201d published in \u201cIndian Express\u201d <\/b>on <\/b>6th November 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? According to a study published in the Global Ecology and Biogeography journal, the leopard population in north India faces an 83% increased risk of extinction due to roadkill. What are the key findings of the study? Source: Indian Express The study has identified four species from around the world at the… Continue reading Telling Numbers: Roadkill and extinction risk for leopards in North India<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700541284},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/roadkill-1.jpg?resize=626%2C347&ssl=1\")