My name is James Herndon, and I’ve just begun volunteering with the Snow Leopard Trust. Yesterday, I told a friend about this, and she replied, “Cool, Snow Leopard is the new Mac OS, right?” She was joking, but given the early buzz over Mac’s upcoming Snow Leopard OS (to be released in the summer of …
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We’re Up and Running
Our basecamp is up, and we’re underway with the first ever long-term ecological study of snow leopards. The basecamp is in Mongolia’s South Gobi Province, in the Tost mountains, approximately 250 km west of the provincial capital of Dalanzadgad. This is some of the best snow leopard habitat in Mongolia. We have 3 gers (yurts) up, and they are home …
GPS Collar Worn by “Bayad” Finally Found
This just in: After a few tense months of wondering if we would ever find the GPS collar which our snow leopard (Bayad) carried for over a year, our team finally located it high in the mountains of Chitral, Pakistan. The collar dropped off in January, as it was programmed to do, but eluded us for months. After fruitless searching …
A New Snow Leopard Range Map
When biologists go into the field and try to figure out where to find snow leopards, here is what they are up against: There are anywhere from 3,500-7,000 snow leopards left in the world, and their habitat is spread across 12 countries. Maps of snow leopard range are based on habitat models and limited data, …