There would be many consequences. First, it would damage ecosystems that revolve around the leopard. Small prey animals would overpopulate and eat all of the starting food (such as grass). Next, there would have to be another major predator eating the food that the leopards would normally eat, so this would cause an increase in the population of lions, and/or other big predators that hunt the same prey as leopards. This is very likely to result in extinction of many other animals. I would recommend doing some research on how ecosystems work. Overall this would cause massive damage to the ecosystem, and the extinction of leopards would damage many other species. All of this depends on HOW the leopards went extinct. The damage would be much, much greater if they went extinct over night.
By consuming marmot, wild sheep and goats the snow leopard keeps the ecosystem in balance. If these populations were to get to big they would over eat the vegetation which would degrade the surrounding environment for all that live in it; therefore the snow leopard positively impacts the ecosystem by keeping other animal populations in check.
If the Snow Leopard went extinct the animals that it ate would become overpopulated. When these ex-prey animals overpopulate they could spread disease.
The snow leopard species will no longer excist and could effect the food chain for some animals.
one of the most important food chain will be broken.
snow leopards main prey the bharal would overpopulate, eating more grass, causing erosion, trees fall, humans run out of oxygen
tigers and leopards eat orangutans
Snow leopards need to be preserved for the role they play in the food chain. Without them, the biodiversity of their natural habitat would suffer.
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They won't and it would not affect our food chain. It would be a terrible loss to the planet though. Fortunately, they are not endangered and their numbers are still growing. They now number well over 20,000.
If the Northern leopard frog were to become extinct it would break the food chain. That would cause a collapse in the ecosystem.
No, that would be impossible.
It would affect the food chain not only for the eagle but for other animals causing the animal planet to die slowly.
Leopards are important because they keep the food chain in balance. If leopards were to disappear their food source would thrive and cause great chaos.
If the moose were to be excint, the population of wolves would be excint, then what ever eats the wolves would start to lose its population. All of the high level consumers would decrease as the level below them became extinct.
If they went extinct the whole food chain would be out of balance.
It would effect the food chain and other marine life would become extinct
It depends where in the world but a few examples would be monkeys/ leopards, anything that lives in a tree or around a tree because of the food chain :)