The construction of new roads, highways, transmission lines, and infrastructure networks is bringing humans and Pakistan’s iconic snow leopards dangerously close, warned the World Wide Fund for Nature on the occasion of International Snow Leopard Day.

In a statement, WWF-Pakistan highlighted that development projects are narrowing the distance between the two, creating new challenges for the survival of the endangered species.

The spread of highways, power transmission lines, and infrastructure networks is increasingly pushing snow leopards toward human settlements, raising the risk of conflict and threatening their long-term survival.

According to the WWF-Pakistan, the country’s first-ever Road Ecology Study has revealed that road infrastructure is fragmenting the snow leopard’s natura

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