Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project. These are his adventures… We placed a GPS tracking collar on a fifth snow leopard. It is a male, what else to expect. We might have hit jackpot though, he weighs 33.8 …
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Fourth Snow Leopard: Shonkhor
Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project. These are his adventures… I am doing something wrong. We placed a collar on our fourth snow leopard a couple of days ago. It is a … male. Surprise eh? Don’t know …
More News about (4th) Snow Leopard
The Snow Leoaprd Trust is annoucing the collaring of a 4th snow leopard in Mongolia. To read Orjan’s post about the event, click here. Our team just placed a GPS radio collar on a 4th snow leopard. This is a cat we have never seen before on our remote cameras, bringing the number of snow leopards using …
The nomad life.
Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project. These are his adventures… Today we moved and built the new camp. I checked our cameras again and there were no snow leopard pictures on them, so in two weeks we have …
Ibex and Sandstorms
Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project. These are his adventures… Emma left today. This must be the emptiest day in the Gobi for me. We have built ten traps, put out a few cameras, checked some kill sites …
Oyuna Crazy fires
Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project. These are his adventures… If you come to Mongolia you will notice that no matter how cold it is outside it will be very, very warm inside the gers. And warmest of …
Cubs Have Been Spotted!
Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project. These are his adventures… Two days ago, Bo and I went with Miji to visit a family whose livestock had been raided by a female snow leopard with two cubs. This was the first …
Tsagaan Re-collared
Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project. These are his adventures… As mentioned a few days ago on this blog, we re-collared Tsagaan a couple of days ago. It feels really, really great! Here are some more details: After …
Tsagaan On Air
Great news–as we said earlier, we were having trouble getting uplinks from Tsagaan’s collar. Orjan was able to catch up with Tsagaan again and switch out the collar.
The Ups and Downs
I thought this was interesting: Before they were able to fit Tsagaan with a GPS radio collar, our researchers spent about 20 days scouting this area, climbing up and down in the mountains to find the best sites. Then they deployed hidden cameras, checked them and collected them. Then they build traps, taking extra care to make sure …