LEOPARD SCHOOL

Do Sri Lankan leopards only live in national parks?

No. They live across dry-zone forests, wet-zone forests, highlands and even human-shaped landscapes such as tea country.

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Images can be added later — the stories already work.

Yala may be Sri Lanka’s most famous leopard landscape, but it is only one chapter of the story.

From scrub forest to cloud country

The Sri Lankan leopard occurs across a remarkable range of habitats, including arid and dry-zone scrub, monsoon forest, wet-zone rainforest and the Central Highlands.

That changes conservation

If leopards use landscapes shared with people, conservation cannot stop at a park boundary. Understanding movement, prey and conflict outside parks becomes just as important.

Wild bit: some leopards grow up in landscapes tourists never imagine.