As Sumbee heads to Ulaanbaatar, he leaves our Mongolian base camp temporarily unmanned. Our staffing plan for the country is in development for 2012, but we hope to see Orjan make his return sometime this March. This would mean the beginning of a new collaring season, where we would have the chance to meet more …
Category: Follow The Cats
Snow Leopards Catch the Travel Bug
This January, we saw some incredible movements from the snow leopards in our long-term ecological study. Aztai spent the first half of the month in the southeastern region of his home range, but later circled the entire area three times! Khavar toured his home range throughout the month as well, and was seen making two separate …
Six Snow Leopards Lead Us Into 2012
As we head into the 5th year of our long-term ecological study, six snow leopards are currently wearing GPS tracking collars, including Aztai, the first cat we had ever collared. Aztai, an older male snow leopard, was seen exploring the southeastern portion of his range just before he returned to the area that overlaps with …
Snow Leopards Make BBC's Top Three!
Thanks to you, snow leopard conservation has taken a great leap forward this November! The votes have been counted and we are thrilled to report that snow leopards made it to the top three in the BBC World Challenge! Making it to the finals guarantees $10,000 for snow leopard conservation, but we find out on …
Khashaa's Cub Joins Our Research Study!
We are thrilled to announce that one of Khashaa’s cubs has just been fitted with a GPS tracking collar! This young male weighed in at 30.7 kg and we believe him to be about 1.5 years old. We are not yet sure if he is still traveling with his mother and sibling or has dispersed …
Aztai and Khashaa Get New Collars!
Orjan returned to our Mongolian research base camp in early October, and he has already accomplished some incredible things. With the help of Kullu from our India program, Aztai was fitted with a replacement collar on October 15th. The new collar has been reprogrammed to send updates on Aztai’s locations more frequently, giving us the …
Five Wild Snow Leopards Seen Travelling Together!
This summer, our research team set a number of motion sensing cameras near our base camp in the South Gobi region of Mongolia. In August, just 6 kilometers from our camp site, five snow leopards were photographed travelling together! Such a large number of snow leopards have never been photographed before, and researchers hypothesize that this …
Two Lost Collars Have Been Found!
Two GPS collars have been located recently in the South Gobi region of Mongolia thanks to field biologist Sumbee! The first belongs to Devekh, who was collared on February 25th, 2010. His collar had malfunctioned and stopped sending out signals shortly after it was placed, making it incredibly difficult to find. However, Sumbee recovered the collar on …
Snow Leopard Shonkhor Passes Away
With great sadness, we report that Shonkhor, a snow leopard we have been following since April, 2009 in our long-term ecological study, has passed away. His last GPS update in early August indicated something was wrong, and our field staff rushed to the scene. While it appears Shonkhor died of natural causes, we have sent …
Friday, the Camp Cat, Shows Off Her Cubs
Friday, the designate Snow Leopard Ambassador to the Snow Leopard Trust, became a member of our Mongolian research team in the summer of 2008 with the mission to keep our lonely researchers company during their stay at base camp. Her crazy antics are those any cat owner can relate to and have been well documented …