Western Ghats Leopard

Western Ghats leopards live in dense tropical rainforests with diverse tree covers, streams, and rocks offering cover and protection. Rainforests also provide prey like deer and wild boar that are important for the leopards' survival. Climate change threatens their habitat through environmental alteration, reduced prey, and detrimental effects on vegetation and trees leopards hide behind. Therefore, leopards would be expected to encounter more problems in hunting and camouflage. In addition, with their habitats declining, they would need to go close to human settlements, thus leading to increased human-wildlife conflict and increased possibilities of being hunted or killed. The combination of habitat loss, reduced prey, and increased human contact makes it increasingly difficult for leopards to survive in the new environment of the Western Ghats.