On July 5, 2009, we placed a GPS radio collar on a snow leopard nicknamed Itgel (which means “Hope” in Mongolian). Itgel suffered a serious leg injury from a wolf trap set by a herder and we collared him in order to monitor his recovery from, or loss to, his injuries. For nearly two months, …
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New Challenges For Snow Leopards Arise in Mongolia
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 …
Itgel is on the move
We received another uplink from Itgel’s collar this morning. (Itgel is the snow leopard with the hurt leg – his range is shown in orange.) He is not far from his last location, but he at least continues to show some movement. Note that Saikhan (green) has left the Tost Mountains and crossed over the …