There are a number of records of Leopard in the mountains of the northern UAE and it is once likely to have occurred widely there. Thesiger (1949) wrote that a Leopard visited Jebel Hafeet ...some years ago. There is a report of a Leopard shot in Masafi, east of Sharjah, in 1962 (Harrison 1968) and another report from Qalidda Pass (Harrison 1971). Hellyer (1993) said there had been nine reports in the previous 30 years. These included one wounded on Jebel Hafeet in 1976, which later died in Al Ain Zoo; a male shot in Ras al Khaimah in July 1986; a female and two young adults in the same Emirate in December 1986, and the capture of one Leopard near Masafi in February 1991. A leopard was shot in the upper part of Wadi Zibat, a tributary of Wadi Bih with permanent water, in November 1992 and its skull retrieved, and another was shot in the same locality in May 1993 (Hellyer 1993). A Leopard was killed in the Al Wa'eeb area of Musandam in 1994 and another was seen there in August 1994 (Hellyer 1994). Since then there have been a few reports of Leopard tracks in the mountains, including at Hatta, but none of these has been confirmed. Summaries of Leopard status in UAE are provided in Aspinall et al. (2005) and Edmonds et al. (2006). There is no convincing evidence to indicate that the species is still present in UAE. Reports from the Omani sector of the Musandam Peninsula continued through the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, including eight killed in 1980, but with no confirmed reports since 1997 it appears that the species no longer occurs in the Hajar Mountains of Oman (Spalton et al. 2006). Leopards are widely distributed across Africa and Asia, but they have been extirpated from large portions of their historic range (Stein et al. 2016). Populations across the Arabian Peninsula are at critically low levels (Mallon and Budd 2011).