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Text Box: It is for this reason that leopard experts, researchers and interested parties in South Africa have come together in the newly formed South African Leopard Forum (SALF), in an effort to guide leopard conservation toward a common goal. SALF has identified the need to formulate and achieve conservation objectives, to adequately protect the leopard. A Leopard conservation plan requires accurate data regarding status, densities, distribution, population dynamics and population decreases across a wide variety of habitats. Panthera pardus pardus is a flagship species for all endangered wildcat species. There is no room for complacency about the security of this species simply because it is not currently considered globally threatened. Pre-emptive conservation is the maintenance and stability of particularly susceptible species before they become threatened. This method is arguably more cost-effective in the long term, as opposed to post decline attempts to rescue species on the brink of extinction.