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News & Stories
Researcher Decode Wild Snow Leopard's Diet
As a naturally elusive creature, it is notoriously difficult for researchers to find the clues they need to understand the life of the mysterious snow leopard. But this summer our field team made a remarkable breakthrough, and uncovered the composition of a wild snow leopards diet. This information is imperative to understanding how dependent snow …
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 …
Help Us Win the BBC World Challenge!
We’re a finalists in the 2011 BBC World Challenge! Between September 26th and November 11th we’ll need your vote! The BBC World Challenge wants to honor small businesses that shown enterprise and innovation… without costing the earth. Our Snow Leopard Enterprises program is the only wildlife conservation initiative in the contest. Snow Leopard Enterprises helps provide income to herding families in …
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 …
A Snow Leopard's Family Album!
We are excited to announce the second installment in our “Snow Leopard Families on Film” series! This video comes from a motion sensing camera set high in the mountains of Mongolia. These cameras are set up to take a sequence of photographs when activity is detected. When the images are put to video, we get …
Congratulations to Our Raffle Winner!
We are thrilled to report that we met our fundraising goal this spring! Over a thousand people participated to make this fundraiser a success, and we extend our deepest gratitude to everyone who took action to protect the endangered snow leopard. Every dollar raised will go to support programs in place throughout Central Asia and …
Tenger May Be New Mom!
Last April, we began to notice that Tenger was refining her home range to a very small area- a behavior that indicated she may have been pregnant and had found a den site. There is no way for our researchers to confirm a wild snow leopards’ pregnancy, but close attention was paid to her activities …
A Journey Through The Badlands
During the week of May 19, 2011, the young snow leopard Zaraa journeyed from our study area in the Tost Mountain region, 45 km. (~27 miles) north, across the Toson Bumba Mountain chain and all the way to another nearby chain called the Nemegt Mountains. What makes this northern trek so interesting is not the …
Lightning Strikes at Our Mongolia Base Camp
Ph.D. Candidate Orjan sends an update from the Snow Leopard Trust base camp located in Mongolia: One of the very rare thunderstorms raged here one night and lightning struck close to our surveillance system [what we use to check if a snow leopard is in the area]. We had not thought about making the system …