After a week of planning and preparing and 3 exhilarating weeks of field work in Mongolia, Senior Regional Ecologist Koustubh Sharma is back home in Delhi, working on analyzing the wealth of data collected over the last months. He shares some of his experiences with us.
Category: Research
Welcome back, Devekh
Breaking news from our base camp in South Gobi! Field scientist Örjan Johansson called in earlier this week to report that he had successfully fitted a new GPS collar on Devekh, a large male snow leopard we had previously been following for a few months back in 2010, before his original collar dropped off.
Research Camera Gems
Throughout the snow leopard range, Trust researchers like Rishi Sharma and Li Juan are tracking snow leopard populations with research cameras. They hike up steep slopes and scramble down rocky crevices to find the perfect spots to set up their cameras – and then they make the same trip again a few months later to …
7 Essential Facts About Snow Leopard Cubs
Curious about Cubs? With cub season coming up, here are 7 things you need to know about snow leopard babies!
Crying Wolf?
How real are people’s perceptions of threats snow leopards and wolves pose to livestock? Conflicts between snow leopards and herders are one of the major threats the cats are facing. But how do herding communities who live with snow leopards perceive the threat these cats and other predators like wolves pose to their livestock? …
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 James Bond Snow Leopard
Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who works at the base camp of our long-term research project in Mongolia. These are his adventures… It’s been a rough period in camp. After several long days in field, I decided to take a day off. I was just going to do a little bit of work in …
New Collared Cat M7 is A Fast Mover
After several weeks of only hearing from one or two cats, we have recent location uplinks from four of the five collared snow leopards. Perhaps one of the most remarkable journeys depicted by this data is that of our newest cat we call M7 (blue). He is a real mover! He was fitted with his …