Hanneslochner observed a leopard in Chobe National Park (Botswana) looking skyward as a flock marabou-storks flew.
overhead. On the horizon behind him, the sun is setting over a scorching hot day (50degC). This young leopard is just one of the many featured in a forthcoming coffee-table book. Remembering Leopards The ongoing series Remembering Wildlife, Featuring wildlife photographers from all over the world.
Margot Raggett, a wildlife photographer, created remembering Wildlife after witnessing the death of a young bull elephant by poachers who used a poisoned bow. The series began with Remembering Elephants and continued on with Remembering Rhinos. The eighth will be Remembering Leopards .
The book series includes images from leading wildlife photographers with the goal of raising funds and awareness to protect wildlife. Kickstarter is a crowdfunding site that allows you to raise money right now. The money raised on Kickstarter goes towards production, exhibitions and printing. Once the books have been sold, all profits will go to conservation projects. Remembering Wildlife, which has sold over 35,000 books to date, has donated $1.3 million towards 63 conservation projects in 27 countries.
Remembering Leopards features each of the nine sub-species of leopards, who, according to Raggett, are thought to be extinct from 23 of 85 countries where they were originally found, plus clouded and snow leopards. In Africa, leopards are no longer found in at least 40 percent of their historical range. In Asia, they have disappeared from 50 percent of their range.
IUCN classifies leopards as vulnerable; certain species are critically endangered. The photographs in Remembering Wildlife serve as a constant reminder to protect these animals for future generations.
A number of images by wildlife photographers that will be featured in the book were already announced. More are to follow. Sebastian Kennerknecht contributed a portrait taken with a camera in Malaysian Borneo of a young adult Sunda Clouded Leopard. Sascha Fonseca travelled to Ladakh, India to find the elusive Snow Leopard, also known by the name “ghost of mountains.”
Federico Veronesi captured Luluka a leopard as she carried her cub in the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya in the morning light. On the cover you will find Mark Dumbleton’s portrait of Thandi a leopard that he photographed when she was only 20 months old in 2008. “Sadly, she died in April 2022. But I feel privileged that I could play a part in helping her to live on as an ambassador for Leopards around the world,” he says.