Twice this year, and possibly a third time, snow leopards have been captured or injured in steel-jaw leg-hold traps intended to capture wolves. The most recent incident occurred on July 5th when a herder arrived at the Snow Leopard Trust’s research camp to report a snow leopard caught in a wolf trap near his ger …
Tag: Conservation
Will the real snow leopard please leap forward!
Many of you may have heard the buzz surrounding Apple’s computer operating system: Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Some of us at the Snow Leopard Trust are Mac users and think it was great that Apple chose to refer to their new product as “Snow Leopard.” We are really excited about it, and look forward to it’s release …
Big Plans in Kyrgyzstan
When you donate to the Snow Leopard Trust, you help us run conservation programs, like Snow Leopard Enterprises in Kyrgyzstan, but also you help us conducting some amazing research so that we can learn more about snow leopards—and improve our conservation programs. Kyrgyz researcher Kubanych Jumabaev (known as “Kuban”) has a busy schedule ahead as …
An Open Letter to Trust Supporters
Dr. Charu Mishra, our Science and Conservation Director, has written an impassioned, timely letter to supporters of the Trust. Looking toward the future of snow leopard conservation with a measured optimism, Mishra makes a compelling case for both science and innovative research to better understand the cats, and also for more community-based solutions that invite these cat’s human neighbors …
Good news for snow leopards in India
A preliminary report from our team in India: a fourth community has established a grazing-free reserve. Grazing-free reserves are created by herding communities in snow leopard habitat. Part of the grazing area belonging to the village council is protected from livestock and other forms of resource use to enable the recovery of snow leopards and their prey. Three reserves exist in …
Non-boring policy article
Although the Snow Leopard Trust works with national governments to build better protective measures for snow leopard, it’s normally hard to talk about in a non-snoozefest way. But we have awesome information out of India that is very exciting. India just ratified “Project Snow Leopard.” It’s a nationwide plan to protect the Indian Himalayas–a treasure trove of unique …
Snow Leopards in China
I just came across two interesting blogs: one by Dr. Philip Riordan, a wildlife biologist doing some snow leopard research in China; and one by Josh, a English teacher in Xinjiang. I thought it might be good to reiterate how important China is to the future of snow leopards. China is home to the world’s largest …