Working with herders, our team in Mongolia is studying how to best prevent predators like the snow leopard from attacking livestock – a key to a peaceful coexistence of cats and local communities. The first fences have already been built.
Category: Mongolia
Training Park Rangers to Protect Cats
Park rangers in protected areas are a key ally in the fight to better understand and protect the endangered snow leopard. In Mongolia, our local team is training these rangers on how to use monitoring techniques such as surveys, GPS and research cameras.
A Futile Season? Not Necessarily!
Researcher Örjan Johansson has returned from another season at Base Camp. They were not able to collar any snow leopards, but he and his colleagues still got a lot done!
Would You Like Some Conservation With Your Fries?
by Siri Okamoto, Development Director, Snow Leopard Trust In 2011, I visited Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, FL (USA). I was in line for french fries in 90-degree weather along with a pressing throng of local and international tourists. They were all melting and trying to get through line as quickly as possible with …
Meet the Cats!
We’ve been tracking snow leopards with GPS collars as part of our long-term study in Mongolia for 4 years. Our collaring expert, Örjan Johansson, has managed to fit collars on a total of 19 cats throughout the years – from veteran study pioneer Aztai to “supermom” Khashaa and her cub, Aylagch. Now, you can get to …
Empowering Women, Protecting Cats: Impressions from the Snow Leopard Enterprises Design Summit in Mongolia
This July, members of our team traveled to Western Mongolia to work with participating herder communities on new designs and product ideas for Snow Leopard Enterprises (SLE), our successful conservation program that creates economic opportunities for herder families in snow leopard habitat in return for a commitment to protect the cats they live with. The “Design Summit” …
Snow Leopard Trust Researchers Encounter Wild Snow Leopard Cub
Press Release – Seattle, WA, July 11, 2013 An international research team including members of the Snow Leopard Trust encounters a 2-week-old wild snow leopard cub in its den; a rare glimpse of the first days in the life of these endangered, elusive cats. Finding a wild snow leopard cub in its den is rare …
The Future of our Long-Term Study in Mongolia
Fast Facts: Panthera has quit the Long Term Ecological Study (LTES) on snow leopards The Snow Leopard Trust will continue the groundbreaking research without interruption We’re planning to expand the study further in 2013