Dr. Charudutt (Charu) Mishra, the Snow Leopard Trust’s Science and Conservation Director and a trustee of India’s Nature Conservation Foundation, is among an elite list of nominees for the 2014 Indianapolis Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious conservation awards. The nomination recognizes Charu Mishra’s outstanding contributions to endangered species conservation in the Himalayas.
Category: country programs
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 …
How to Keep Snow Leopards Away From Your Fridge
New study: more wild prey for snow leopards may mean more livestock losses, not less! We’ve all had these evenings, after a long day at work, where we’d just open the fridge and eat whatever we found in there. On a good day, that may have been a pizza. On a bad one, however, …
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
Kyrgyzstan: Major Win for Snow Leopards!
Kyrgyzstan’s snow leopards get a bigger, safer home! The country’s Prime Minister, Jantoro Satybaldiev, has signed a decree expanding the Sarychat-Ertash State Nature Reserve, Kyrgyzstan’s most important snow leopard habitat, by 150 square kilometers. That’s roughly twice the size of Manhattan – an expansion of 12%!
Pakistan: Comprehensive Report on Snow Leopard Distribution in the Works
In 2013, Snow Leopard Trust researchers in Pakistan hope to complete camera trap studies and conflict surveys that will help them paint the most complete picture of snow leopard distribution and conservation status across the country to date. Fast facts: The Snow Leopard Trust’s local partner organization in Pakistan is finalizing the country’s first comprehensive …
Face to Face with Snow Leopards: A Close Encounter in China
A research team from our Chinese partner organization, Shan Shui, was taking a break from exhausting field work in the mountainous Sanjiangyuan region, when Edward, a young Chinese-American volunteer, dropped his binoculars. He climbed back down the steep slope they had just come up to recover them – only to suddenly find himself face to …
Grazing-free Reserves Save Snow Leopards in India
Pastures are set aside for wild snow leopard prey to graze as part of a conservation partnership with communities in the Indian Himalayas.