What happened: The rising leopard population in the Margalla Hills’ terrain, which is said to comprise of eight of them in the area, is threatened by deliberate poisoning rather than poachers’ rifles or natural causes. Details: The leopard family is compelled to prey on adjacent towns’ domesticated animals to meet their growing food requirements, exposing them to the constant threat of deliberate poisoning, a tactic popular among people in the past to safeguard their livestock. To get rid of them, they reportedly threw poison-laced meat loaves into the forest. On the other hand, villagers have requested the establishment of a compensation fund, claiming that a number of their goats, as well as a half-dozen cows and calves, were recently hunted by the leopards, resulting in significant financial losses, “My cow was killed within a 200-meter radius of my house, and we strongly suspect leopard involvement because the villagers have seen it moving around with a pair of cubs nearby,” a resident living near-by, Zakir Hussain reported. More: In early 2018, the Islamabad Wildlife Management Board said to have discovered the body of a leopard in a deteriorating condition, “After that, we initiated an awareness campaign on the value of wildlife for the ecosystem,” stated Sakhawat Ali, IWMB Operations Manager.