Endangered or not? A power of 10 makes a difference

Prefacing this: there's no doubt that the clouded leopard is an endangered species. But reading the following article makes it seem less so, despite what the article says:

Bangladesh rare leopard renews hopes for species survival

Bangladeshi conservationists said Thursday the discovery of a rare leopard captured by villagers in the southeast of the country renewed hopes for the survival of the critically endangered species. Professor Anwarul Islam, chief executive of Wildlife Trust of Bangladesh, said the three-month-old clouded leopard cub had been released back into the wild.

(I hate to say it, but they probably should have given the cub to a zoo. How good are the chances of survival of a three-month old cub in the jungle?)

There are two statements in this article. One is a caption, the other is from the text. They both read like this, verbatim:

The clouded leopard is listed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, with 100,000 of the species believed to still be living worldwide.

Now, 100,000 doesn't seem so bad; actually, that seems like a LOT of clouded leopards. It didn't take long to determine that the actual estimated number is 10,000, noting that the secretive nature of the clouded leopard makes it hard to make an accurate estimate.

That's actually a pretty important fact for the article to be newsworthy; somebody should have caught it.