You have to see this (from Koustubh Sharm, our Regional Field Biologist): Here are some pictures (converted into a short video!) of the snow leopards kittens that were photographed in our research site, less than a km from the base-camp. The spontaneous reaction of a loud YEAY was unanimous on seeing this pictures. It seems …
Author: Snow Leopard Trust
Just how much scat do we need?
A lot. In fact, we’re hoping to collect 200 snow leopard scat samples over summer. Kim, our Assistant Director of Science, is in Mongolia now collecting scat, and supervising numerous other projects. Kims says they swapped out Azati’s collar, and that his old one is pretty beat up. “The rest of our field work is …
Summer Crew
Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project. These are his adventures… The summer crew arrived in Base Camp on the evening of the 15th of June and since then, things have been busy here. The crew consists of Kim …
Good news for snow leopards in India
A preliminary report from our team in India: a fourth community has established a grazing-free reserve. Grazing-free reserves are created by herding communities in snow leopard habitat. Part of the grazing area belonging to the village council is protected from livestock and other forms of resource use to enable the recovery of snow leopards and their prey. Three reserves exist in …
Video of Woodland Park Zoo Cubs
Here’s a video of the new cubs, courtesy of Woodland Park Zoo.
Field Camera Footage of a Wild Snow Leopard
Here is a video of Saikhan, a wild male snow leopard we are studying in Mongolia. Assistant Director of Science Kim Murray made this video by piecing together still frames, taken every half second, from a remote field camera.
Alone in the Gobi
Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project. These are his adventures… We were all very happy that we had caught a female. Too bad this joy turned into misery after just two days when we didn’t get any fixes …
The Sixth Snow Leopard
Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project. These are his adventures… Yeeeeeaaaaahhhiiii!! A female. We have a female. And it is a very pretty female too. We fitted her with a collar very close to Camp, and since it …
GPS Study Goals Met
With the exciting news that a female snow leopard is “on the air” in Mongolia, we have reached a major milestone. Our team had a total of six collars on hand, and they used them all. What we are learning is already quite amazing. We found that the home ranges of Aztai and Bayartai overlapped extensively. Instead …
Orjan finally found a girl!
Orjan has just placed GPS collars on two more snow leopards: Saikhan (fifth cat to be collared) and, this morning, a female snow leopard (sixth cat to be collared, as yet no nickname). You can read Orjan’s account of Saikhan HERE, but the female snow leopard is so new, we still have very little information. Here …