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Koustubh Awarded Grant for Field Training Kit

Koustubh Sharma, Regional Field Biologist for the Trust, recently was awarded a Rufford Small Grant for Nature Conservation. It will help fund the development and implementation of a field training tool kit including a set of field equipment (for demonstration), and friendly audio-visual materials including presentations, spreadsheets, necessary software and manuals/booklets to promote snow leopard …

Bayara Wins Wild Cat Conservation Prize

We are thrilled to announce that Bayarjargal (Bayara) Agvaantseren, our Mongolia Country Director, has won the prestigious 2009 Rabinowitz-Kaplan Prize for the Next Generation in Wild Cat Conservation. The $25,000 prize awarded by Panthera, recognizes Bayara’s tireless efforts to protect snow leopard at both a local and national level in Mongolia. Wonderful achievement, Bayara!

Saikhan heads east, Aztai takes it easy

After spending most of the past two weeks in the eastern part of the Toson Bumba Mountains, Itgel (orange) has moved nearly 15 km west, back towards the site where he was radio-collared. Saikhan (green) is continuing his eastward movement in the Tost Mountains, while Shonkhor (purple) has made repeated ~20 km movements back and …

Movement from Igtel, Meals for Shonkor and Saikhan

Itgel (the injured cat, shown in orange) remains in the eastern edge of the Toson Bumba Mountains. We’re getting uplinks from his collar more frequently, which indicates that he’s spending increasing amounts of time in open terrain and less time holed up in caves. After spending three days on what was likely a good meal, …

Weekly Cat Update: And the award for longest walk goes to….

We’re seeing a lot of movement from our radio-collared snow leopards this week. After visiting the area northwest of our research camp, the cats appear to be using a corridor to move between the Tost and Toson Bumba mountain ranges. Shonkhor has moved back to Toson Bumba to an area slightly further east than we’ve …

Support for Wild Snow Leopards Boosted by Apple’s Snow Leopard OS

[Snow Leopard Trust Press Release; Reposting/reprinting allowed] From the US to Germany to Sweden, the new Mac OS X is raising awareness—and donations—for snow leopard conservation.  Seattle—The launch of the new Mac OS X is bringing much-needed awareness to one of the world’s most endangered big cats: the snow leopard of Central Asia. For months …