Amur leopard conservation speech - Speaking and Listening Assessment
The Amur leopard is a Critically Endangered animal - there are only 30 left in the wild. The Amur leopard has a paler coat than others, it has dark rosette shaped spots on it’s coat, with dark unbroken rings. It has a rasping call and it’s coat can grow 7cms thick in the winter. It lives, alongside the Amur tiger, in Primorski Krai which is a place near the Chinese border, in the far east of Russia.
It is a beautiful place with many forests and a beautiful coastline. Many people live there also. An Amur leopard diet contains deer, but there has been a reduction of a number of wild deer due to hunting and farming. The leopards have no other choice but to steal deer from farms, which means that they get shot and die right there, on the ground.
Really, does stealing a few deers to feed yourself and your family sound so terrible?
Sometimes they are hunted because their bones are an invaluable ingredient in making Chinese medicine.
Man 1, leopard 0
[I gave only one point because both these reasons are stupid reasons to kill a living creature].
Fires also have an destructive impact on the forest where they live. Reducing forests to grassy wastelands, which Amur leopards can’t live on. Did God give Man power so that he could destroy both animals and his habitat?
Or are we just forgetting that other species need land and life too? Because we seem to be acting very arrogantly if there are about 30 left in the wild.
What we need to do is to give up our cruel ways and help these poor creatures, because, believe it or not, they’re living creatures too. And they have as much right to life as we do. They need a voice. I’m willing to speak up, are you?