关键词: 豹猫, 资源量, 可持续利用, 保护, 云南

Abstract: 　 Leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) is a small carnivore widely distributed and diversified in eastern and southeastern, Asia. It is one of the important economic furbearing mammals in China. Yunnan, a frontier mountainous province, possesses the most abundant of leopard cat resources in China. There are five subspecies of leopard cat in China, two of them are distributed in Yunnan, P. b. scripta distributed in the North, and P. b. bengalensis in the South and Middle of Yunnan. According to the hides sold per 10 km² in specific administ rative divisions, from 1973 to 1987, there appeared three abundant areas. The high abundant area (1.9～2.1 hides purchased per 10 km² ) is in South and Southeast, Yunnan; middle abundant area (0.9～ 1.2 hides purchased per 10 km²) , is in middle and southwestern Yunnan; and the last, lower abundant area (under 0.6 hides purchased per 10 km²) , in the North and Xishuang banna,southern Yunnan. Based on the survey of 16 transectlines in 1992 and the analysis of hides of leopard cats in Yunnan was estimated about 90 000～170 000 animals. The data of hidest rade (from 1954 to1992) also gave us a clue that leopard cat resources would be sustainable in Yunnan if we keep the amount of harvest under 30 000 animals each year, for the average hides purchase during 39 year was 29 988, and showed a stable purchasing trend during these years. In order to make leopard cats a sustainable resources, it is important to put it in the protected animal lists, to enhance resources management and conservation, to establish monitoring systems.

Key words: Leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis), Abundance, Sustainable utilization, Conservation, Yunnan