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 …
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Big Plans Unfold for 2012!
Thank you to everyone who has made a gift to the Snow Leopard Trust this year! We are very close to meeting our fundraising goal for 2011, and your contribution will help finance snow leopard conservation throughout next year. If you haven’t made a donation yet, now is the perfect time! Your donation will allow …
Watch the Snow Leopard Trust on BBC World News!
This Saturday, BBC World News will be airing a 30 minute special about Snow Leopard Enterprises as part of our first place prize from the World Challenge! A BBC film crew met up with our Executive Director Brad Rutherford and Country Program Director Bayara in Mongolia this August to learn more about Snow Leopard Enterprises …
Snow Leopards Win The BBC World Challenge!
We are thrilled to announce that Snow Leopard Enterprises won the 2011 BBC World Challenge! Supporters around the world came together to cast their votes for the preservation of this rare and beautiful big cat! Your vote means that our flagship program, Snow Leopard Enterprises, will expand in Kyrgyzstan. This will bring more families into …
Country Programs Make Important Progress
The Snow Leopard Trust carries out multiple research projects throughout the year, and this fall three countries have made important steps forward. In India, field biologists installed the second round of research cameras for the year. These cameras will remain in the field until early January. The goal for this project is to better understand …
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 …
Accident Totals Research Van, But No Serious Injuries
Just this past September, our field researcher Sumbee was returning toUlaanbaatar,Mongolia’s capital city, to resume his university classes. Unfortunately, while our camp driver Miji was at the wheel, another driver who had fallen asleep crashed head-on into our research van. Sumbee was not injured and Miji is still recovering, but both will be just fine …