Preparations are underway in Spiti in the Indian Himalayas to equip and track a snow leopard with a GPS collar for the nations’s first comprehensive and long-term radio-collaring project of these endangered felines.
Author: Matt Fiechter
No Cats or Prey Were Hunted in Kyrgyz Partner Communities in 2014
Kyrgyz team makes adventurous trip into the mountains to reward local communities for their role in keeping endangered snow leopards and prey species safe.
Mystic Cat in the Abode of Snow – an intern's tale
17-year old Saloni Wadhwa has her career goals figured out. She wants to be a wildlife scientist. Earlier this year, she interned at Nature Conservation Foundation, our partner organization in her native India, in their snow leopard program. This is the story of how she fell in love with the “Mystic Cat in the Abode …
The Best Wild Snow Leopard Cub Photos
Nothing quite compares to the rush of excitement we all experience upon discovering a wild snow leopard cub on a photo taken by one of our research cameras.
An Endangered Beauty
There may be as few as 4000 snow leopards left in the wild. Learn more about the threats this endangered cat faces and about how we can protect them together.
Wild Cubs Caught on Camera
Watch an amazing video featuring three wild snow leopard cubs and their mother in Mongolia’s Tost mountains.
Amazing Video of Snow Leopard Cubs
One of our donor-funded remote-sensor research cameras in Mongolia’s Tost mountains has captured stunning, rare footage of a snow leopard mother with three small cubs.
Lila Lapanja, Snow Leopard Ambassador on the Slopes
We’re excited to announce a new partnership with up and coming US Ski Team racer Lila Lapanja! Lila will serve as an ambassador for the endangered snow leopard and the conservation work we’re doing to save it in this upcoming season and beyond!
China: An Increase in Snow Leopard Sightings
Prepared by Cheng Chen, Snow Leopard Project Program Officer & Scientist, Shan Shui Conservation Center/Panthera. Cheng has a Doctorate in Ecology, and joined Snow Leopard Team on September 1, 2014 In the last half of the month, snow leopards have frequently been seen near human settlements in the Sanjiangyuan region of Qinghai Province, China. At dusk of April …
giveBIG for Snow Leopards
giveBIG 2015 is over – and what a day it was for snow leopards! It all began with a challenge: The Seattle Foundation had pledged to match the first $5,000 in giveBIG donations if we managed to raise that much in one day. In less than 7 hours, you helped us meet this challenge and land this amazing …