Tiger conservation must be on the official radar of authorities, volunteers and wildlife activists for long but one should not overlook the fact that leopards are vanishing thick and fast from the country and the situation is equally alarming in Madhya Pradesh, which has reported 15 casualties till the halfway mark in 2011. The wildlife lovers could take offence of the fact that despite the fast disappearance of the spotted feline, no official database of population is available post 2003, when around 1,090 leopard were recorded across the State. The mortalities of the last few years highlight the fact that the leopard has joined the tiger in the horrid race for extinction. In the last one-week or so, the State has registered three casualties; two in Shivpuri and one from Balaghat. Firstly, a speeding vehicle had crushed a leopard to death on the Agra-Mumbai highway near Shivpuri, while the district again reported seizure of a leopard skin on July 3. Besides, on the intervening night of July 2 and 3, Kanha officials reportedly had seized a leopard skin from Kawardha (Chhattisgarh). However, media reports suggested that the seizure was done at Balaghat.