While giving the detail of 23 perdicted animals facing extinction in Pakistan, Dr Ijaz said that these included Mountain weasel, Mountain sheep, Asian black bear, Black finless porpoise, Burrowing vole, Kashmir vole, European otter, Marbled polecat,Fishing cat,
Goitered gazelle, Himalayan Musk Deer, Indian pangolin, Chinese white dolphin, Indus river dolphin, Kashmir Muskdeer, Hairy-footed gerbil, Markhor,Pallas's cat, Red deer, Sand cat, Smooth-coated otter, Wild goat.
The main threat to the species is the loss of their primary food--jebeer gazelle,
goitered gazelle, urial sheep and wild goat--due to poaching and grazing competition from domestic livestock.