Snow Leopard's Lair
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Snow Leopard's Lair from the Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom series on Animal Planet channel premiered on March 9. The program will be repeated on March 16. (Be sure to check your local cable listing to confirm the time.) The documentary has stunning footage of Bayad-e-Kohsaar, the wild snow leopard from the Trust's first of its kind snow leopard research project.BBC News is tracking the progress of the project, including the search for the collar that Bayad was wearing. Find out more in Collar 'key' to snow leopard secrets.
You can also read Answers to to your snow leopard questions from Snow Leopard Trust's Science and Conservation Director Tom McCarthy, and his entries to Snow Leopard Diary.
Snow Leopard's Lair is based on the same footage as Snow Leopard: Beyond the Myth from the BBC's Natural World series. It features three years of landmark footage in high definition of Bayad and her cub in Northern Pakistan, and has already aired in the UK to great reviews. Footage of Bayad can also seen in the Mountains episode of Planet Earth from Discovery Channel.
More Snow Leopard Trust in the Media
This June, National Geographic magazine will feature an article about the study in Pakistan. The photographer for the article took more than 4,000 photos while he was with Tom McCarthy, Trust Science and Conservation Director, in Pakistan's Chitral Gol National Park. The research and conservation work of the Trust has also been reported on by other major news organizations, including NPR (National Public Radio) and The Seattle Times.
An article about snow leopard poaching and the work of the Snow Leopard Trust was featured on the front page of The Seattle Times. Read the article online, Saving a cat with a precious pelt.
You can also listen to Elizabeth Arnold's Radio Expeditions report for NPR, Protecting the Snow Leopard from Poachers.
The name of the wild snow leopard Bayad-e-Kohsaar in Urdu means "In Memory of Mountains", to honor the many conservationists who lost their lives in a tragic helicopter accident in Nepal in 2006.