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• The snow leopard lives in a valley high in the Wakhan Mountains of Afghanistan

• It has got snowy fur with black, half-moon markings and white goatee. It is a solitary and elusive creature

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• The leopard was snarling and furious at being caught. The hunter tied the leopard's legs and muzzle and threw it in the back of a truck

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• NATO forces, the U.S. ambassador in Kabul, a royal prince and Afghan President Hamid Karzai because the feline was to become the object of a four-day rescue operation

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• They thought to get a better price for their cat than $50,000 and began to shop around. Somebody on the Internet was supposedly offering $2 million

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• The leopard was confiscated from the hunters, and Richard Fite was dispatched to tend it. Fite was more accustomed to dealing with farm animals, and to encounter a snow leopard was a marvel

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• Fite examined the Fite examined the leopard. The feline leopard. The feline growled but remained growled but remained subdued. When he subdued. When he looked into the eyes of looked into the eyes of the animal, he could the animal, he could tell it was ailing tell it was ailing because he had a because he had a mental stress mental stress

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• Over the next three days, Fite tended to the leopard. Then a decision was made to fly the leopard back to the Wakhan. After what seemed like a day of improved health the snow leopard died on March 2

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• http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1972402,00.html (last access 05-2010)

• www.time.com (last access 05-2010)• Postcard from Kabul, Tim Mcgirk, TIME, 5 April

2010• Animals under siege, T. Boucher, Time, April

13, 2009

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Liceo scientifico A. Oriani RavennaSchool year: 2009-2010

Interdisciplinary project: Man and the environment-Climate changes and

endangered speciesSubjects involved: English, I.T.

Teachers involved: Prof.ssa SiboniClass: 1°C P.N.I.

Students involved: Capelli Eleonora and Santi Giulia