Snow leopards use snow to blend in with their environment to hunt prey. The retreat of the snow line is reducing the hunting area. With only around seven thousand snow leopards in the wild, any change in the environment could be catastrophic. “The findings indicate that around 30% of snow leopard habitat in the Himalayas could be lost due to shifting tree lines and resulting shrinkage of the alpine zone, especially along the southern border of the range and in river valleys (Forest, 129).” A 30% decrease in habitat is a huge statistic. But not only that, as global warming continues, the polar ice caps will melt faster and, in a worst-case scenario, the depletion of a primary water source for all wildlife and humans will be inevitable. “In total, the entire ice mass of the Hindu Kush-Himalaya is estimated to have decreased over the last two decades. Furthermore, the rate of melting appears to be accelerating (Barnett, 306).” To take this research further, it is stated that if this trend continued for many more decades, fossil water would stop producing and would then flow