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Mining companies want to violate new Protected Areas status

In 2010, you helped us create a new Protected Area in Mongolia’s South Gobi to help safeguard snow leopards from mining. Our latest news from the area: the mining companies have started pressuring local officials to extend their licenses in violation of the local Protected Area status. One way we can mobilize: help local community members and …

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Did Mongolian government permit hunting snow leopards for research? Snow Leopard Trust and Snow Leopard Network take immediate action.

Below is a clipping from a March 2011 Mongolian Newsletter reporting the hunting permits allowed for the year, including four leopards for research. The following is the text of a letter sent from the Snow Leopard Network asking the Mongolian government not to allow permits for hunting snow leopards. Sir, On behalf of the Snow …

New Video Presents Mongolian Handspun Camel Yarn

The Snow Leopard Trust presents our newest video about the process behind our Mongolian Handspun Camel Wool Yarn. Take a minute to watch Surnaa Namjilsuren, a member of one of our partner communities in rural Mongolia, turn raw camel wool into a skein of beautiful yarn. 100% of the proceeds from each skein of Surnaa’s …

Our March Photo of the Month Takes Us Back to the Beginning

Taken in 1972 by the Snow Leopard Trust’s founder Helen Freeman, this picture shows the first two snow leopards to reside in Seattle, Washington’s Woodland Park Zoo. Nicholas and Alexandra came all the way from the Soviet Union and arrived when Helen was a volunteer docent at the zoo. She quickly fell in love with the …

A Snow Leopard Romance for Valentine's Day

With Tsagaan fitted with an improved GPS tracking collar this past September, we have learned a remarkable amount of information on his recent whereabouts. His home range overlaps with that of Khashaa, Tenger and Zara (the three females in our research study) and his GPS locations show him visiting all of them more than once …