All of us have been waiting in quiet anticipation to hear news from Orjan, not knowing when another snow leopard would be captured, collared and released. Perhaps you too have joined us in the silent hope that it would be a female—after all, we already have numerous males that we are tracking, but a female …
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Grazing-free Reserves Save Snow Leopards in India
Pastures are set aside for wild snow leopard prey to graze as part of a conservation partnership with communities in the Indian Himalayas.
Snow Leopard Back on the Map: A New Uplink from Tsagaan
We are extremely excited to report an uplink from Tsagaan (white). This single data point lets us know that he is not far from where our researchers are operating right now. Aztai (green) and Shonkhor (red) covered an average of at least 7 km and 6 km per day respectively. Since we do not know …
Orjan: A Moment to Reflect on Life Back in the Gobi
Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who works at the base camp of our long-term research project in Mongolia. These are his adventures… It’s been two hectic weeks in camp. Bayara (Country Program Director for Mongolia), Pursee (Mongolian biologist), and Charu (Science & Conservation Director) arrived a little more than a week ago. To our …
Snow and Snow Leopards
Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who works at the base camp of our long-term research project in Mongolia. These are his adventures… We arrived in the Gobi about a week ago. All the equipment and gers (large Mongolian tents) have been stored in a tiny house since last summer, and the first thing we …
More snow leopard clusters, more snow
Given the erratic uplinks from Shonkhor’s collar (red), we had a rare moment this week with the recording of a cluster, possibly depicting a kill site or resting spot! On the 8th and 9th of February, we received a cluster of three locations within 50 meters of each other. Unfortunately there were no uplinks following …
Nature Camps for Students in India's Spiti Valley
Since 2007, the Snow Leopard Trust and its partner in India, the Nature Conservation Foundation, have conducted three-day camps for middle and high school children in the Spiti Valley of the Himalayas. Over the past three summers, about 430 children (and 30 teachers) from 15 schools have participated. The experience of living in tents and …
Snow leopard mystery: Aztai
Aztai (green) has communicated 740 locations ever since he was first collared two years ago, and then re-collared last year in June. Every week, his locations unravel more mysteries about snow leopards than were ever known. This week, we are intrigued by what appear to be two “clusters” separated by a distance of only 2.5 …
Signals from snow leopard Tsagaan
There was a lot of action from the South Gobi this week. Uplinks from Aztai (green) continued as usual, but the most exciting news was to receive data from Tsagaan (white) and Shonkhor (red). After almost three months of silence, we received two data uplinks from Tsagaan. He appears to be within his home range, …
Orjan returns
Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who works at the base camp of our long-term research project in Mongolia. These are his adventures… After a nice trip where I got to see Helsinki and Beijing, I finally arrived in Ulaanbataar this afternoon. It’s good to be back, but at the same time I feel a …