News & Stories

Snow Leopards Win The BBC World Challenge!

We are thrilled to announce that Snow Leopard Enterprises won the 2011 BBC World Challenge! Supporters around the world came together to cast their votes for the preservation of this rare and beautiful big cat! Your vote means that our flagship program, Snow Leopard Enterprises, will expand in Kyrgyzstan. This will bring more families into …

Country Programs Make Important Progress

The Snow Leopard Trust carries out multiple research projects throughout the year, and this fall three countries have made important steps forward. In India, field biologists installed the second round of research cameras for the year. These cameras will remain in the field until early January. The goal for this project is to better understand …

Aztai and Khashaa Get New Collars!

Orjan returned to our Mongolian research base camp in early October, and he has already accomplished some incredible things. With the help of Kullu from our India program, Aztai was fitted with a replacement collar on October 15th. The new collar has been reprogrammed to send updates on Aztai’s locations more frequently, giving us the …

Five Wild Snow Leopards Seen Travelling Together!

This summer, our research team set a number of motion sensing cameras near our base camp in the South Gobi region of Mongolia. In August, just 6 kilometers from our camp site, five snow leopards were photographed travelling together! Such a large number of snow leopards have never been photographed before, and researchers hypothesize that this …

Accident Totals Research Van, But No Serious Injuries

Just this past September, our field researcher Sumbee was returning toUlaanbaatar,Mongolia’s capital city, to resume his university classes. Unfortunately, while our camp driver Miji was at the wheel, another driver who had fallen asleep crashed head-on into our research van. Sumbee was not injured and Miji is still recovering, but both will be just fine …

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 …

A New Season Means More Snow Leopard Photos!

Our autumn research season is now underway! While our team members process the images taken by motion sensing camera during the summer, field researchers are gearing up to collar more snow leopards this fall. Coordinating travel agendas and securing the required supplies and equipment consumed much of September, but thanks to everyone’s hard work, by October 1st most …