Along with other International conservation groups, we’ve launched a petition and campaign to save the endangered snow leopard ahead of an upcoming high-level summit.
Tag: Snow Leopard
Two Lost Collars Have Been Found!
Two GPS collars have been located recently in the South Gobi region of Mongolia thanks to field biologist Sumbee! The first belongs to Devekh, who was collared on February 25th, 2010. His collar had malfunctioned and stopped sending out signals shortly after it was placed, making it incredibly difficult to find. However, Sumbee recovered the collar on …
Snow Leopard Shonkhor Passes Away
With great sadness, we report that Shonkhor, a snow leopard we have been following since April, 2009 in our long-term ecological study, has passed away. His last GPS update in early August indicated something was wrong, and our field staff rushed to the scene. While it appears Shonkhor died of natural causes, we have sent …
A Snow Leopard's Family Album!
We are excited to announce the second installment in our “Snow Leopard Families on Film” series! This video comes from a motion sensing camera set high in the mountains of Mongolia. These cameras are set up to take a sequence of photographs when activity is detected. When the images are put to video, we get …
Tenger May Be New Mom!
Last April, we began to notice that Tenger was refining her home range to a very small area- a behavior that indicated she may have been pregnant and had found a den site. There is no way for our researchers to confirm a wild snow leopards’ pregnancy, but close attention was paid to her activities …