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Students Helping Snow Leopards

Last Fall, with support from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, the Snow Leopard Trust, in collaboration with Facing the Future, launched a new curriculum entitled – Engaging Students in Conservation: Protecting the Endangered Snow Leopard. (Download the 7 Mb PDF file) This interdisciplinary curriculum has five dynamic lessons geared for 5th – 8th grade.  The …

DNA: A Key to Unlock the Secrets of an Elusive Cat

Originally published in Snow Leopard Tracks, Summer 2006 Advances in genetics have resulted in a valuable new technique to estimate snow leopard populations. This is done by analyzing the DNA from samples of wild snow leopard scat and shed hairs that are collected in the field. The Trust has been working with Dr. Lisette Waits of …