Editing Clouded leopard (section)

== Threats ==
[[File:Clouded leopard coat (1).jpg|thumb|A coat made of clouded leopard skin. Poaching for illegal trade of skin is one of the main threats to the clouded leopard.]]
Clouded leopard require larger areas of intact forest than are present in many parts of their range.<ref name="wilting2006">{{cite journal |last1=Wilting |first1=A. |last2=Fischer |first2=F. |last3=Bakar |first3=S.A. |last4=Linsenmair |first4=K.E. |name-list-style=amp |year=2006 |title=Clouded leopards, the secretive top-carnivore of South-East Asian rainforests: their distribution, status and conservation needs in Sabah, Malaysia |journal=BMC Ecology |volume=6 |issue=16 |pages=1–13 |doi=10.1186/1472-6785-6-16 |pmid=17092347 |doi-access=free |pmc=1654139}}</ref> They are threatened by habitat loss following large–scale [[deforestation]] and commercial poaching for the [[wildlife trade]].<ref name=Nowell07/> In Myanmar, 301 body parts of at least 279 clouded leopards, mostly skins and skeletons, were observed in four markets surveyed between 1991 and 2006, despite the protected status of clouded leopards in Myanmar. Some markets are located near Myanmar's borders with China and Thailand and are used to facilitate cross-border smuggling.<ref>{{cite report |author=Shepherd, C. R. |name-list-style=amp |author2=Nijman, V. |year=2008 |title=The wild cat trade in Myanmar |location=Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia |publisher=TRAFFIC Southeast Asia |url=https://www.traffic.org/site/assets/files/4076/wild_cat_trade_myanmar.pdf |access-date=20 December 2020 |archive-date=23 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210123141416/https://www.traffic.org/site/assets/files/4076/wild_cat_trade_myanmar.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

In Nepal, 27 cases of clouded leopard body parts were discovered between November 1988 and March 2020 in nine districts of the country, comprising at least 51 individual clouded leopards. In 17 of these cases, the poachers and traders were arrested.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ghimirey |first1=Y. |last2=Acharya |first2=R. |name-list-style=amp |year=2020 |title=Clouded Leopard ''Neofelis nebulosa'' (Grifth, 1821) (Mammalia: Carnivora: Felidae) in illegal wildlife trade in Nepal |journal=Journal of Threatened Taxa |volume=12 |issue=16 |pages=17229–17234 |doi=10.11609/jott.6504.12.16.17229-17234 |s2cid=230543392 |doi-access=}}</ref>