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: Protected areas alone will not be enough to keep snow leopards safe – the home range these cats need are simply too large. Highlights: Our scientists have safely captured, radio-collared and tracked an unprecedented number of snow leopards in the wild. Through GPS satellite tracking, we’ve found that snow leopards use significantly larger …
