四故娘山

Your team gets off a bus high in the mountains of Sichuan 四川 Province in China. A guide tells you about the huge snow leopard he spotted last week.

Snow leopards

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live in the mountains where they hunt animals like

blue sheep

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. He said he used to seem them often, but lately it has been getting warmer and snow leopards have been disappearing. A recent study shows that high mountains are warming even faster then the rest of the planet. This will result in 30 percent of the snow leopards habitat to vanish as the forests change in response to warming. Melting mountain glaciers also cause about 25 percent of the rise in sea level.