In 2012 Dr. Li Juan became the first female scientist to earn a PhD in zoology with a focus on snow leopard conservation. She continued to pursue a post doc at University of California, Berkeley and has recently published a new paper in collaboration with scientists from around the world. Here Dr. Li Juan shares with us her new study recently published in the journal Biological Conservation.
Snow Leopard Trust teams work with herders across the high Himalayas to understand what diseases are present in livestock herds and potentially in the surrounding wildlife. Munib Khanyari explains why it is important to link snow leopard conservation with improving livestock health.
In autumn 2019, Scientists from the Snow Leopard Trust and Snow Leopard Conservation Foundation Mongolia equipped three wild snow leopards with GPS collars in Mongolia’s Tost Mountains. Örjan Johansson shares his stories from the field with us.
Dr. Muhammad Kabir successfully defended his PhD on December 7, 2019. He worked on understanding the status of wolves in the high-altitude areas of Pakistan. Here Dr. Kabir shares with us the main findings of his work and what drives him to support conservation in high altitude areas.
Thank you for a great year! Here is just a brief look at some of the great achievements you made possible for the cats in 2019.
In Mongolia this spring, thanks to a GPS tracking collar, researchers were able to visit den site of Dagina, the oldest female wild snow leopard known to science. She gave birth to three cubs. Senior researcher Örjan Johansson shares with us the story of Dagina and her cubs.
Each year hundreds of children in Ladakh and Spiti in India are inspired to work towards conservation through eco-camps conducted by the Snow Leopard Trust’s India partner, Nature Conservation Foundation.
The Snow Leopard Trust is pleased to announce Dr. Charudutt Mishra as our new Executive Director. Dr. Mishra, fondly known as ‘Charu’ has been with the Snow Leopard Trust for nearly 20 years.
The Pallas’s cat (Otocolobus manul) shares remote, mountainous habitat in Central Asia with its bigger “cousin,” the snow leopard. Like the snow leopard, very little is known about this small wild cat. Scientists from across the range have come together in an international effort to study the Pallas’s cat conservation status. In Mongolia’s South Gobi we have also worked to increase awareness of the species among local people.
Conservationists from the Snow Leopard Trust and its five snow leopard range partner organizations came together in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, for a training workshop on PARTNERS Principles for Community-Based Conservation.
