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 …
Tag: Base Camp
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 …