Key takeaway: This research puts a price tag on the goods and services provided ‘for free’ by nature to a community in snow leopard habitat. Highlights: The first-ever assessment of the value of ecosystem services in a snow leopard landscape has shown that the value of goods and services provided for free by nature to local …
Key takeaway: Healthy snow leopard populations need enough wild prey. Livestock can’t replace wild prey as the cats’ main food source. Highlights: Field work for this paper was done in 7 sites in India and Mongolia and involved camera trapping, double observer surveys, and genetics research. Our research has established that the availability of wild prey …
Key takeaway: A set of eight principles for building successful and ethical conservation partnerships with local communities in the habitat of a threatened species. Highlights: Based on two decades of experience and drawing from ideas developed in various scientific fields, our team has distilled a set of eight principles for successful community-based conservation. They’ve published both …
Key takeaway: Religious beliefs and practices may have some potential to influence people’s attitude towards wildlife and conservation. Highlights: A study into how a person’s religion (Buddhism or Islam) shapes on their attitudes toward carnivores such as snow leopards and wolves showed that the effect was statistically nonsignificant, and was tempered by gender, education, and awareness of …
Key takeaway: Many snow leopard attacks on livestock can be avoided with vigilant herding, small adjustments and better corrals. Highlights: For the first time ever, by closely monitoring radio-collared snow leopards, our scientists were able to study prey preferences and predation patterns of individual snow leopards, and establish the circumstances, times and locations of snow leopard …
