Our Chinese field braced the bitter cold of the Tibetan Plateau to set out research cameras and was rewarded with a rare sighting of four snow leopards at once – a mother with two cubs and a male cat. Adapted from a report PhD student Lingyun Xiao Suojia, a township located west of Sanjiangyuan National …
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The Value of Trust
Working with communities to conserve wildlife is as impactful as it is rewarding. Gaining people’s trust is no easy task though, as our China researcher Xiao Lingyun writes.
Awesome Boost from BBC
The BBC is helping lead the way to healthier snow leopard populations: The BBC Wildlife Fund is teaming up with two leading conservation organizations, Whitley Fund for Nature (WFN) and Nature Conservation Foundation (NCF), to launch a new program aimed at securing a healthy population of snow leopards across Asia. The BBC Wildlife Fund is providing …
Rare Photos Released from China Team
The Snow Leopard Trust China Team has just released a series of photographs taken by motion sensing cameras placed throughout snow leopard habitat in their country. The result? Incredible images depicting multiple snow leopards hunting and feeding- behavior that has only been captured a few times before. All photos are below, however a short video was …
Big Plans in Kyrgyzstan
When you donate to the Snow Leopard Trust, you help us run conservation programs, like Snow Leopard Enterprises in Kyrgyzstan, but also you help us conducting some amazing research so that we can learn more about snow leopards—and improve our conservation programs. Kyrgyz researcher Kubanych Jumabaev (known as “Kuban”) has a busy schedule ahead as …
Snow Leopards in China
I just came across two interesting blogs: one by Dr. Philip Riordan, a wildlife biologist doing some snow leopard research in China; and one by Josh, a English teacher in Xinjiang. I thought it might be good to reiterate how important China is to the future of snow leopards. China is home to the world’s largest …
A New Snow Leopard Range Map
When biologists go into the field and try to figure out where to find snow leopards, here is what they are up against: There are anywhere from 3,500-7,000 snow leopards left in the world, and their habitat is spread across 12 countries. Maps of snow leopard range are based on habitat models and limited data, …