In early April, Snow Leopard Trust field researcher confirmed that Tsagaan, one of the snow leopards in our long term ecological study had passed away due to natural causes. Aztai, a rival male living adjacent to Tsagaan’s previous home range, has been seen exploring the territory that had previously belonged to Tsagaan at the complete …
News & Stories
Rare Photos Released from China Team
The Snow Leopard Trust China Team has just released a series of photographs taken by motion sensing cameras placed throughout snow leopard habitat in their country. The result? Incredible images depicting multiple snow leopards hunting and feeding- behavior that has only been captured a few times before. All photos are below, however a short video was …
Amazing Snow Leopard Family
We are pleased to share a few photos of this spectacular snow leopard. She’s not just any snow leopard, she’s a wild cat in India raising two big cubs. Your donations will help protect this furry family and expand protection for snow leopard just like them in Mongolia, Pakistan, China and Kyrgyzstan. Our remote research …
Cool Cat Connections
We love when cats can help cats–and so we have to give a shout out to two organizations that have made an art of ‘cat connections.’ The first is Cat Life Foundation, which has supported research, habitat protection, and conservation for wild cats big and small. They helped green our base camp with new solar panels, and …
Tsagaan’s Death Investigated
On April 12th the snow leopard Tsagaan was found dead. The uplinks from his GPS collar reported that he was stationary for four days. That was followed by seven days of radio silence. Orjan and the field team traveled to the site where he had been stationary to investigate and sadly found Tsagaan’s body. We …
May's Photo of the Month
May’s Photo of the Month is placing the focus on three very special snow leopards living in the mountain range of northern India. Two cubs have been seen on our research cameras exploring and playing throughout their home range, a carefree pastime only made possible by the watchful patience of their incredible mother. This picture …
Measuring Success: Orjan Checks In
s After an insane collaring session where we had six snow leopards in 20 nights, we have closed up our equipment. We do not want to find the same individuals too many times and I started getting a little tired. Usually one has a few nights of rest after a collaring, but we never seemed …
Setting New Records
Orjan recounts his first two incredible weeks collaring snow leopards at the base camp of our long-term study (Orjan is a Swedish PhD student working on this study): We have set a new collaring record and put out four GPS radio collars in 15 days. First we put a collar on a new female, called F5 for …
A New Female is Welcomed into Our Long-term Study
With our field researchers settled back in at our Mongolian base camp, this field season is off to a great start. We are thrilled to welcome a new female into our long term ecological study! Orjan, a PhD student from Sweden reports on the event below: “We caught a new cat yesterday. Finally all the …
The Snow Leopard Tsagaan Passes Away
One of the snow leopards in our long term ecological study, Tsagaan, recently died. We do not yet know the cause of his death but we are actively investigating and will post the findings as soon as we have them. Our field researcher Orjan explains. Two days ago I got an email saying that Tsagaan …