http://www.blog.snowleopard.org Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:32:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 en ask-the-expert snow-leopard-collaring conservation-news zoo-news mongolia-long-term-study uncategorized camp cat mongolia research snow-leopard snow-leopard-pakistan-afghanistan-gps uncategorized snow-leopards-in-the-news Who is that? People at the base camp http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=62 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=62
  • Orjan is a PhD student from Sweden. He bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at our base camp.  
  • Dr. Tom McCarthy is Managing Director of Field Programs for the Snow Leopard Trust. He leads the long-term project in Mongolia.
  • Dr. Kim Berger is Assistant Director of Science for the Snow Leopard Trust 
  • Pursee is a field biologist for the Snow Leopard Trust. He works as a teacher in Ulaanbaatar when he is not at camp.
  • Pujii is a Masters student from Mongolia who is working on occupancy estimates. She studies in Minnesota and will go back to the US in early September.
  • Namshur, is our Mongolian vet and handyman. He has built a super-nice shower and some very impressive shoehorns of ibex horn
  • Biamba is our driver
  • Dr. Koustubh Sharma is Regional Field Biologist for the Snow Leopard Trust. 
  • Juan is a research student from Argentina
  • Mije is camp caretaker
  • Oyuna is camp cook
  • Benji, Oyuna and Mije's daughter will leave for school in Dalandzadgad in a little while.
  • Chris Waltzer is an Austrian vet who works in Austria, and has worked with cheetah in Iran and with wild ass, wild camels and Przewalskis horse in Mongolia.
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    Blog Home http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?page_id=2 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:13:28 +0000 admin Blog Home]]> 2 2008-03-17 15:13:28 2008-03-17 22:13:28 closed open about publish 0 8 page _wp_page_template default Zoo News http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=5 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:20:39 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=5 I am going to start off this blog with something I hope can be an ongoing feature: Zoo News. A lot of times we hear or find interesting news about what's going on with snow leopards in zoos around the world. We also have some "inside channels" and first-hand accounts from zoo keepers.

    • An article from KTUU says the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage hopes their two snow John Gomes Snow Leopardleopards, Kaz and Molly, will breed this year.

    • And speaking of the Alaska Zoo, we get a lot of great photos of their snow leopards from John Gomes--check out his site to see tons of snow leopard pictures. Here is one of his from our Flickr page.

    • Zoo Boise has a new snow leopard named Tashi. He flew in from Potter Park Zoo in Lansing, MI--he's over 7 months old by now and he is adorable. There is a great video about him by Joe Jaszewski at the Idaho Statesman Newspaper.  

    I have a lot more to share--but that should get you started.

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    A New Snow Leopard Range Map http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=7 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:01:38 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=7

    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, much of which is anecdotal.

    mapThe good news is, this March, 30 of the world's leading snow leopard experts came together in Beijing to map their collective knowledge (Beijing Conference press release). Now, a new snow leopard range map is being put together and will soon be available on the Snow Leopard Trust's website, as well as the Snow Leopard Network website.

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    7 2008-04-09 10:01:38 2008-04-09 17:01:38 open open a-new-snow-leopard-range-map publish 0 0 post 1567 maggielyn@sbcgloble.net 69.150.243.254 2009-04-15 12:40:10 2009-04-15 19:40:10 thank you this site helped me get an ''A'' in class!!!! 1 0 1568 siri@snowleopard.org http:// 75.160.102.185 2009-04-15 13:51:28 2009-04-15 20:51:28 Thanks for the good news Skyler. The more people learn about snow leopards the better their chance of survival. 1 0 1855 ugvfkugv@thgcfjhg.com.au 122.108.90.66 2009-05-25 00:34:45 2009-05-25 07:34:45 this website is great. but i need a map that shows areas that are protected for snow leopards. 1 0 1033 zebrastrawberry@aim.com 64.252.11.24 2009-02-03 18:33:24 2009-02-04 01:33:24 i am sooooo happy THANK YOUUUUHHHHH!!!! 1 0 1878 siri@snowleopard.org http:// 75.160.102.185 2009-05-28 09:49:43 2009-05-28 16:49:43 Here is a map that shows snow leopard range (in pink/beige) overlayed with known protected areas (darker green outlines). Two notes: first, the country borders are for illustrative purposes only. Second, this is a general compilation of protected areas. Some are specifically for snow leopards, some are not. 1 0
    Zoo News: New Arrivals and Exhibits http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=9 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:59:21 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=9 New Arrivals  New Exhibits:

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    9 2008-04-22 10:59:21 2008-04-22 17:59:21 open open zoo-news-new-arrivals-and-exhibits publish 0 0 post 2010 http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=158 208.113.202.211 2009-06-09 18:14:23 2009-06-10 01:14:23 [...] three cubs born last year at the Tamo Zoo - Suou, Kohaku, and Han - recently celebrated a birthday.  It’s great to see them growing [...] 1 pingback 0
    Video: A Cub is Born http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=12 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:06:19 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=12 From the snow leopard keeper at Tama Zoological Park outside of Tokyo: a video of MAIYA's birth last May , and her first day outside . It's in Japanese, but pretty self-explanatory. Return to Snow Leopard Trust Website]]> 12 2008-04-29 08:06:19 2008-04-29 15:06:19 open open video-a-cub-is-born publish 0 0 post GPS Collar Worn by “Bayad” Finally Found http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=10 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:37:51 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=10 This just in: After a few tense months of wondering if we would ever find the GPS collar which our snow leopard (Bayad) carried for over a year, our team finally located it high in the mountains of Chitral, Pakistan.  Bayad

    The collar dropped off in January, as it was programmed to do, but eluded us for months. After fruitless searching and following the signal with a hi-tech VHF receiver, our team finally decided to build their own tracking devise using an old FM radio.

    From Jaffar, our senior biologist in Pakistan:

    "This is indeed great pleasure to inform you that our team retrieved Bayad's collar today at 1215hrs, inside a narrow crack of a deep crevice at Shali Gol (Buffer zone of Chitral Gol National Park) after more then two months regular and tiring search effort in a highly rough and difficult terrain of Hindu Kush mountain range."

    Bayad is the first wild snow leopard to be collared with GPS radio technology. Sign up for the Snow Leopard Trust eNews to recieve regular updates about Bayad. Learn more:

    Return to Snow Leopard Trust Website

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    10 2008-04-29 14:37:51 2008-04-29 21:37:51 open open snow-leopard-gps-collar-found publish 0 0 post 2 siri@snowleopard.org 75.160.102.185 2008-04-24 15:24:31 2008-04-24 22:24:31 Here is another note that I picked up from www.dailytimes.com.pk: "The researchers led by Jaffaruddin, a wildlife biologist, employed a ground tracking system through VHF (very high frequency) receiver to detect signals coming from VHF Beacon Transmitter. He said that when they were at about one square kilometre from the collar site, the high altitude cliffs, rough terrain and narrow and deep gorges of Hindu Kush acted as parabolic mirror and beamed the signal to an opposite side valley. " No wonder it was hard to find!! 1 0 31 donkey23@gmail.com http://ebayfreak.blogspot.com 62.87.174.28 2008-08-12 15:16:12 2008-08-12 22:16:12 Very interesting blog, i have added it to my fovourites, greetings 1 0 2579 lorenza.slam.a.97.0@gmail.com http://www.blackwatercircle.com/forums/posting.php?mode=newtopic&f=1 99.146.19.52 2009-08-19 05:02:45 2009-08-19 12:02:45 I usually never do a reply post but I enjoyed your blog a lot,Thanks for the great info :) spam 0 1151 daysasitypac@gmail.com http://applebeesmenu.org/ 221.125.192.123 2009-02-28 02:46:30 2009-02-28 09:46:30 I must say that you provide genuine, quality information. Thanks for this! BTW, dpn't you think your blog needs a better wordpress template? 1 0
    New Snow Leopard in Seattle http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=17 Thu, 08 May 2008 23:15:40 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=17 ]]> 17 2008-05-08 16:15:40 2008-05-08 23:15:40 open open new-snow-leopard-in-seattle publish 0 0 post 29 donkey23@gmail.com http://ebayfreak.blogspot.com 78.8.22.47 2008-08-11 13:53:39 2008-08-11 20:53:39 Very interesting blog, i have added it to my fovourites, greetings 1 0 Female snow leopard out and about http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=18 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:15:14 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=18 As we've posted, Woodland Park Zoo, the Snow Leopard Trust's neighbor to the west, has 2 new snow leopards. A male named Tom and a female--still unnamed. Has she met Tom yet? Just a little nose rub through the fence. Both snow leopards join the Zoos' long-time resident snow leopard, Nadia.

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    We’re Up and Running http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=26 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:40:20 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=26

    Our basecamp is up, and we're underway with the first ever long-term ecological study of snow leopards.

    The basecamp is in Mongolia’s South Gobi Province, in the Tost mountains, approximately 250 km west of the provincial capital of Dalanzadgad. This is some of the best snow leopard habitat in Mongolia.  

    We have 3 gers (yurts) up, and they are home to an international team of scientists and graduate students from Mongolia, India, USA, and Argentina. A Ph.D. student from Sweden will join the team next month. The center will be staffed year-round. This first team of scientists is already busy with camera trapping and genetics studies.

    The most ambitious undertaking this year will be the initiation of GPS collaring of snow leopards which we hope will start in July. The new generation of collars the team will deploy uses satellite phone technology to uplink multiple GPS locations a day for each collared cat.

    Over the next 10 to 15 years this modest research facility is expected to grow and eventually include an information center for local people and tourists, as well as a training/education center which will host scientists and graduate students from around the region.

    The long-term study is a collaborative effort of the Snow Leopard Trust, Snow Leopard Conservation Fund, the Mongolian Ministry of Nature and Environment, the Mongolian Institute of Biology, Felidae Conservation Fund, and Panthera.

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    The boys are three months old http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=21 Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:09:20 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=21 Just thought you might like this one for your blog: Aiko, the keeper at Tama Zoo sent it out today. Three healthy, bouncing little boys, just turned 2 months old. No larger files at this stage, but I'll be working on it soon.

    Steve.

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    Snow Leopards Inspire New Mac OS http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=20 Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:09:53 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=20

    My name is James Herndon, and I've just begun volunteering with the Snow Leopard Trust. Yesterday, I told a friend about this, and she replied, "Cool, Snow Leopard is the new Mac OS, right?" She was joking, but given the early buzz over Mac's upcoming Snow Leopard OS (to be released in the summer of 2009), it was a poignant joke. Do a Google search for "snow leopard" today, and six out of the ten search results will be computer-related, not cat-related. A group of Apple programmers saw the Planet Earth footage of a snow leopard, and they were so inspired that they built a new operating system that mimics the animal: Snow Leopard OS is nimble yet strong, pleasing to the eyes, and alarmingly fast. That's what I think happened. Want to know more about snow leopards, make sure to check out the "Cat Facts" section of the Snow Leopard Trust's website.

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    20 2008-06-27 18:09:53 2008-06-28 01:09:53 open open snow-leopards-inspire-new-mac-os publish 0 0 post 15 alwynbth@aol.co.uk 196.25.255.250 2008-07-19 05:54:58 2008-07-19 12:54:58 please send any info/news about this beautiful creature to my e mail 1 0 2362 kim@yahoo.net http://yahoo.net 198.54.202.110 2009-07-27 09:34:19 2009-07-27 16:34:19 hey james its very intersing to know someone who has seen a snow leopard! i am usaully scraed to tell my friends about snow leopards because they would say theres no such thing! HOPE I CAN JOIN IN WITH YOU ONE DAY IN SNOW LEOPARD TRUST! LOVE FROM KIM OXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOX [WE WHERE IN THE SAME COLLEGE!!!!!]OXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOX 1 0 2451 diddyplikeya77@yahoo.com http://www.rewardguide.co.uk 81.152.215.195 2009-08-08 09:13:41 2009-08-08 16:13:41 Jsut want to let you know I found this really interesting :) spam 0
    Can Mum Get a Rest?! http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=22 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:15:18 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=22

    The cubs are in tip-top shape, but I think their mother YUKI is getting a little tired of their boisterous ways. She climbs to the top of the rock-face to escape them, and I'm sure she's grinning when she sees them 20 feet below, scrambling & whimpering while trying to get a foothold. It won't be much longer, I guess!

    Steve.

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    22 2008-07-10 15:15:18 2008-07-10 22:15:18 open open can-mum-get-a-rest publish 0 0 post 850 olegans@gmail.com http://www.deluxerest.com 78.36.191.32 2008-12-25 10:41:51 2008-12-25 17:41:51 Hi! Very nice information. Thanks! 1 0
    Snow Leopards Caught on Camera! http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=27 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:45:11 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=27 Trap cameras are in place to photograph snow leopards. This just in from Koustubh, our Regional Field Biologist:  

    You are going to love this! We now have 13 snow leopard triggers in 261 camera nights (one capture every 20 camera nights!). We now also  know each of the snow leopard that has triggered our cameras other than  one individual who could not be identified as we got only the tip of its tail due to bad alignment of the camera (we realigned it and it is now capturing many animals!).

    We've named the four individuals as: Eureka (our first snow leopard); Uncle (always  busy walking with head down); Longtail (has an incredibly long tail); Inquisitive (peeped into one of our cameras). Longtail triggered three distant cameras in just one day, whereas Inquisitive triggered two close cameras in one day!

    That is it for now, just too excited to keep this for the next scheduled email day!

    Cheers, Koustubh

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    “Aw, c’mon Mum… give me a hand!” http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=23 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:59:34 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=23

    Hi everyone.

    Probably no more than 50 people at Tama Zoo today (Monday), but I swear half of them were at the SL enclosure to shoot our happy trio of boys. The mother, YUKI, had obviously had enough of them, so perched herself out of their reach. Honestly, while he was trying to climb up, most of the time hanging by his front paws, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry (so I did both!!) Hope you can see the funny side, because I know I (and the rest of the crowd) sure did!

    All the best, Steve T.

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    A Baby Girl http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=24 Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:04:50 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=24 Just a quick message to let you know of the latest snow leopard birth at Tama Zoo. MAYU (Maiya's mum) had a little girl on 6/26, so SHYNGHYZ has now fathered 11 cubs at the zoo in his 7 years here. We now have  three 3 month old males, and a 3 week old baby girl!PRETTY AMAZING!! No press release yet, but I'll get something to you ASAP. ]]> 24 2008-07-17 16:04:50 2008-07-17 23:04:50 open open a-baby-girl publish 0 0 post Video of the thee Cubs http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=25 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:26:47 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=25

    Here is the first video footage of the 3 brothers, HAN, SUOU & KOHAKU with their mother YUKI at Tama Zoo. Hope you like it. It was taken on June 3rd on their first day out. STEVE. ]]>
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    First Cubs in 16 Years http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=30 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:11:34 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=30 On May 19th, a male and female cub were born at the Oklahoma City Zoo. Their parents are first-time, six-year-old mother Kiara and eight-year-old father Tankh (pronouced Tawnk). Each cub weighed approximately two pounds, and mother and babies are doing well. "We are very excited to have two new snow leopard cubs since this is the first litter born at the Zoo in 16 years, " said Mammal Curator, Laura Bottaro.

     The cubs are spending a quiet period bonding with mom and growing. They will be slowing introduced to the great out-doors and beginning August 1st will be able to meet the public. The Zoo has some great resources for getting to know the cubs: check out pkczoo.com and their MySpace page to get updates and photos as the cubs grow.

     Here is a great video of the cubs from local Oklahoma news station channel 5.

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    Arrived in Ulaan Bataar http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=35 Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:08:59 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=35 Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project.  These are his adventures...

    Well, so far everything has gone almost as planned. I had some trouble getting on the plane since I didn’t have any visa for Mongolia but 25 minutes before departure, the airline personnel decided to let me on. When I arrived in Chingis Khaan airport I found out that there were no visa waiting for me, after 10 nervous minutes Nadia from International Snow Leopard Trust (ISLT) came to the office and helped me out.

    I’m staying in a hot hotelroom downtown, has spent the day checking out Ulaan Bataar (UB), visiting  museum with lots of dinosaur fossils and visited Jan Wigsten, a Swede who has spent 28 summers in Mongolia and runs a tourist company called Nomadic journeys (www.nomadicjourneys.com). He is a really nice and experienced guy and I have learned a lot this afternoon.

    I might tag along on a two day tour east to see some more of Mongolia before I head out to the desert. Not too much more to report, it’s hot here and it will be even hotter in the Gobi.

    Orjan

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    Still in UB http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=36 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:21:00 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=36 Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project.  These are his adventures... 

    Well, it’s still hot. UB is like all Asian cities, and not. Dowtown is busy, with people everywhere and lots of shops and resturaunts. The traffic is horrible, if you try to cross a street the drivers speed up to make sure you have noticed them. Though, I don’t think that they will stop in case you haven’t noticed them… The difference is that downtown is very small, you can easily walk around it. It’s easy to tell that the houses downtown were built during the Soviet era. l I think that many of the suburbs consist of Ger tents, but I haven’t been there. Spent last day at ISLT’s office and on the immigration office, trying to obtain a work permit and long term visa, none of them worked. I’ll head to the national museum now to learn some more about Chingis Khaan and Mongolia in general. Some info for all people using Google earth (and all other with good maps). We will fly from UB to Dalanzadgad, the regional capitol of Omnogov (south Gobi) province. The flight is about 500 km. From Dalanzadgad, we head west in a Russian van to the Soum (municipality) centre Gurvantes. This trip is about 300 km and takes about 16 hours (without breaks). J. Tserendeleg camp is situated about 45 km north of Gurvantes in the Tost Mountains. I have been told that there is GSM coverage at a hill 800 meters from the camp, if this is true you can text me at my new Mongolian number, send a mail to get the number ( I have no idea how steep the hill is though, it might be 800 meters straight up…).  Chingis and the Golden horde is waiting, don’t want to keep them waiting…]]>
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    Some valuable tips when moving abroad http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=37 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:22:18 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=37 Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project.  These are his adventures...

    I realized that I have forgot to write some very important stuff. First, I was on the same plane as the Brazilian soccer team (female), they were actually sitting in the same area as me. But while they were travelling to fame and glory in the Olympics, I was on my way to solitude in what Lonely planet describes as “one of the harshest places on Earth”… Still, it’s pretty cool, eh? Second, I have come up with three invaluable things to remember when moving abroad, especially if the country has an extreme climate and uses Chyrillic alphabet (making it hard to understand signs): 1. If you pack an extra bag and send it as cargo, meaning it will arrive a couple of days after you, it is wise to fill it with clothes that you will not use immediately (Check, I did that, it’s full of winter clothes). However it is not as wise to fill the extra space in the bag with all your socks and shoes (Check, did that too, Ohh…) So, I have been walking around in my nice desert boots and the same socks for the past six days. I have washed the socks in the zink but it didn’t help much. 2. Make sure that you obtain your visa before you depart, I guess mine will be ready after I have left for the Gobi. No worries, I’m sure I will be fine anyway. 3. Don’t listen to your friend if he, before you leave home says: “No, you don’t need to buy batteries, it’s a capitol, off course they have batteries”.  Took me half a day to locate six AAA batteries (not packages, batteries) for my headlamp. Tom and Kim from the Snow Leopard Trust will arrive early tomorrow,  so soon I will have some more information about the project.]]>
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    Snow leopards in Pakistan threatened by poaching in Afghanistan http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=32 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:46:32 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=32

    The Snow Leopard Trust has analyzed the data from Bayad's collar and found that she traversed a 1,563 square kilometer area, splitting her time between Pakistan and Afghanistan. In the map above, Bayad's movements are the little black dots, and the red line is the border between countries.

    Past convensional VHF radio collars used in previous snow leopard studies lacked the technology to record and store locations, so researchers had to follow radio signals on foot through the mountains as best they could. Radio receivers have a typical range of just a few kilometers and require collars to be nearly in line-of-sight. Cats would often "disappear" and then reappear, and researchers had to guess where they were in-between.

    Bayad's collar stored hundreds of GPS locations for the entire 14 months she wore it. The data from the collar makes it clear that Bayad, and other snow leopards who also journey from Pakistan into Afghanistan, are vulnerable to poachers in Afghanistan. Hunting snow leopards in Afghanistan has been outlawed since 2002. Still, pelts fetch upwards of $1,500 and impovrished Afghanis often break poaching laws. Approximately 100-220 snow leopards remain on Afghanistan, and 300-400 in Pakistan.

     The information gained from Bayad's collar will help researchers implement more effective conservation strategies, and underscores the critical need for transboundary protected areas to conserve snow leopards.

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    32 2008-08-06 14:46:32 2008-08-06 21:46:32 open open snow-leopards-in-pakistan-threatened-by-poaching-in-afghanistan-2 publish 0 0 post 1090 siri@snowleopard.org http:// 75.160.102.185 2009-02-17 10:42:56 2009-02-17 17:42:56 We would never do anything to aid poachers. If we thought for a minute that these maps could be of any help to poachers, we would not make them public. Luckily, these maps would be useless for poachers. People who live in this region know there are snow leopards there, so this map affords them nothing new and there is no way to tell from it where a snow leopard may be at any given time. If someone from outside of the area were to try to use this map, they would soon find that the mountains of the region are by far too complex to navigate with a low res, nonspecific, non-landmarked map such as this. Also, notice that this map contains no GPS coordinates. You are right that poaching is a big problem. Maps like this are more than good for science. The government uses maps like these when they are formulating protective policies. By far, the good of the map outweighs the bad. Finally, keep in mind that we don't post maps right after we make them--meaning that by the time we post them, they are usually quite old. For example, the data in this map is almost 3 years old. With snow leopards liking to roam far and wide, by the time we post a map, the snow leopard has had many weeks--if not months--to move on. 1 0 2516 cinysuresee@mail.ru http://sport-markt.ru 212.95.54.235 2009-08-13 08:59:14 2009-08-13 15:59:14 Hinweis spam 0 2436 vsevolod_kurshak@mail.ru http://www.wonnengut.info 212.95.54.235 2009-08-06 14:00:09 2009-08-06 21:00:09 Спасибо сегодня прочитал а какая дата статьи? spam 0 1087 ann2009marie@gmail.com 207.190.161.254 2009-02-16 08:59:34 2009-02-16 15:59:34 People are out poaching these animals why are you giving them a map on exactly where to hunt them, i know its good for science but these animals are Endangered and showing these Horrible people where these amazing creatures are is Rediculuos and unnecessary. 1 0
    Last day in civilization http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=38 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:23:23 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=38 Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project.  These are his adventures...

    Tom and Kim arrived early yesterday and together with them, I left the hotel and moved into an apartment owned by Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). We packed all gear at SLT’s office including a huge amount of food that we bought at various markets and loaded it on a truck going to the Gobi. Have hopefully finished the last things now, It’s been two very busy days.  From now on I will send messages to Guillaume Chapron (Chappen) at Grimso research station and he will publish them on the blog. I got to take out some money and buy some calling cards and then its off for dinner. I have put the adress where you can send letters and SMALL parcels under the “about me and the project” heading Orjan]]>
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    Puppies Raise Snow Leopard http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=33 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:05:26 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=33 Here's an interesting twist: Binder Park (Michigan) Zoo's baby snow leopard, Shanti, is being raised with the help of boxer-mix puppies. Shanti had to be removed from her mother for safety reasons, and the puppies provide her with companionship and warmth. Zoo keepers can then limit their interaction with Shanti so that the cub does not become too attached to human zookeepers, and retains as many wild traits and instincts as possible. From the article and some inside sources, we've heard that pairing cat cubs with dogs is a common zoo practice, and is beneficial for both parties.

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    33 2008-08-14 16:05:26 2008-08-14 23:05:26 open open puppies-raise-snow-leopard publish 0 0 post 2495 e2021e12@gmail.com http://www.successupgrade.com/go/id2/ludovic115/Silver.html 68.175.90.94 2009-08-11 21:13:31 2009-08-12 04:13:31 Def some good info here - keep it coming spam 0
    Trap Camera Success http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=34 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:06:56 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=34 This week, a message came in via sattelite phone from Dr. Tom McCarthy, leader of our long-term research project in Mongolia. Right now, he is at our base camp, called Tserendeleg. Out there in the South Gobi, little things like and outhouse and electricity mean a lot . . . 

    Greetings from Camp Tserendeleg!

    Just a short update on life here at camp. To start with, this place is great, our team has done an incredible job of making this a real working camp. The gers are now very well equipped, for instance the office ger has 3 work tables, 8 chairs, a bookshelf, storage bin and off course is wired for electricity with lights and outlets for computers and charging dozens of fancy gadgets from trap camera batteries to walkie talkies.

    The cooking ger is no less well equipped and our cook, Oyuna, is a gourmet! Oyuna's husband, Mijid, is quite a handyman . He even built an outhouse with a window!

    The grounds have a stone perimeter and are kept spotless. The generator is housed in a small shed built by Mijid and electricity is run with buried wires to every one of the 4 gers. There is even a stone lined walkway to the outhouse.

    Cats: We have 182 trap camera photos of snow leopards! You won't believe some of them. On rapid-fire mode the camera will take pics at a rate of 2 or 3 per second and some encounters run several seconds with up to 30 images so it's almost like a mini film clip. You can see cats walk in and scrape in front of the camera. I am guessing we may have nearly 1,000 images of ibex with some encounters containing 50 or so pics. Amazing stuff.

    That's about it for now. I will write in a few days when we have more news.

    Cheers, Tom]]> 34 2008-08-15 09:06:56 2008-08-15 16:06:56 open open 34 publish 0 0 post 2462 michaelf@yahoo.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUrVgfm8BHY 173.16.53.220 2009-08-08 23:21:11 2009-08-09 06:21:11 Random question: I was told to start a blog so that my clients or potential clients could connect with me, I am a photographer. Do you find that happening with your readers? spam 0 Getting to my new home http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=39 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:26:34 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=39 Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project.  These are his adventures... As we checked in at the airport it turned out that together, the four of us (me, Tom, Kim and Namshur our Mongolian veterinarian) had about 65 kg of overweight. Part of this was due to all scientific equipment and part was because Nadja misunderstood Tom when he asked her to buy some uncut cheese, as in, not sliced cheese.  She bought a whole cheese, as in, not cut at all. Well, at least we will not run out of cheese in a while. And there was really not much of a problem, besides us, it was just three more people on the plane. In Dalandzadgad we were picked up by Biamba, a Mongolian who has worked as driver for the crew who stayed in the camp during summer. We loaded all luggage in the Russian van (which was already full of all the stuff we sent down by truck two days earlier and headed to the market to but vegetables, bread and some other stuff. Before we could leave the Mongolians were really keen on lunch (I have understood that eating is very important to them). Unfortunately, the power had been out for three days so it took a while to find a restaurant that was open. With our stomachs full and our minds set on a long drive we took off. I knew that the roads would be bad but I hadn’t expected them to be that bad. Took us a bit more than 10 hours to get to camp with just two short stops. I checked the speed a few times and according to the meter we were doing between 70 and 90 km/h, I agree with the meter cause both we and some of the luggage were flying around in the van a couple of times. Eventually we got to camp, and what a camp! The sleeping ger contains five bunk beds and some shelves. The Kitchen is really nice with a gas stove and a little table with chairs. There’s sausages and dried sheep meat hanging from the ceiling and all around the walls there are food stashed up. The office has a U-shaped desk with computers, electronic gadgets and boxes with equipment piled up wherever there is room. Everyone have told me that the food in Mongolia is horrible but our cook is fantastic. Considering where we are and what supplies she has, she cooks delicious food.  The cook and the caretaker (the Mongolian couple) lives in a ger about 30 meters behind the camp. Around the camp there are small stone walls (very small) which make it really cosy. We have a great toilet (a little house built over a hole in the ground) and a shower is under construction. Together with the surrounding this must be if not the best place, than at least top three that I have lived in.  The camp is situated at the mouth of a canyon going into a valley, hard to describe but it means that we see mountains on all sides.  And what mountains. The summits are realy pointy and dramatic. We have seen ibex, owls, falcons lammergeier and lots of other birds from camp. We spent the first day here unpacking all the gear and I filled up the capture backpack with all the stuff we will need. In the afternoon we went for a short hike o check some trap cameras (hidden cameras with motion sensors) The cameras have been out for two months partly to fascilitate finding good trap sites. There are scrape markings (the snow leopards pee on a cliff and scratch together some pebbles for a visual mark) all over these mountains, there is actually one 200 meters from camp. We found some good places. Man, the mountains are so beautiful and the feeling that there are so many leopards around is thrilling. Setting a trap takes a few hours, I think that I will describe it in detail when I can upload some pictures but in short, first you nail the trap mechanism to the ground and dig a hole for the trigger. Then you cover the hole with a cloth and lay your snare on the cloth. Then you put dirt on the cloth and sharp stones around it so the leopard will step in the snare. To make sure that the leopard can’t get away you need to attach the snare to a rock (with a spring coil between so the snare will have some resistance instead of being totally numb). Last thing we do is attaching a transmitter that will send a radio signal in case something gets caught in the trap. In case there are no rock around to tie the snare to, you will need a weight of some kind. So day two, we went to Gurvantes, the village nearby to get some scrap metal. As we’re driving around Tom yells out “thats what we want”! In a yard, there’s all sorts of yunk lying around, we negotiate a price and load the van full of transmission parts, generator, wheel rims etc. For the past days, we have been carrying tools, snares, wire, trap mechanisms and really heavy metal parts up the mountains and setting snares. Today, we have ten traps set. I could write so much more but it is my time to climb one of the mountains to listen if any of the transmitters has changed signal, in that case, we will be busy tonight. We climb the mountain every morning at five and every evening at eight. Orjan A note from SLT about the use of snares: snare are being used to capture snow leopards so that GPS radio collars can be placed on them. To see what the collars do, look under the "Categories" section of this website and read the story of Bayad. To learn more about the snares and how they work, read the comment attached to this post.]]> 39 2008-08-15 13:26:34 2008-08-15 20:26:34 open open getting-to-my-new-home publish 0 0 post 32 siri@snowleopard.org http:// 75.160.102.185 2008-08-15 13:43:24 2008-08-15 20:43:24 Other than snares, there really is no other reliable or safe way to capture snow leopards. They will not go into box traps or cages of any kind. Other researchers have tried that in the past, and even placed meat or live bait inside. The leopards that came to the trap walked around it many times, but always departed without going in, despite the free meal being offered. The snares being used are built with several safety features. First, the snare loop that actually holds the animal’s leg has a lock on it that prevents it from over-tightening. The snare cable is of a diameter that will not cut the cat’s skin. Also, it can only close to about the diameter of the cat’s foreleg and no farther. So the loop gets small enough to not slide off over the paw, but can’t close tight enough to damage the leg or cut off circulation. We then place one or more swivels between the leg loop and the cable that holds it to a tree or other anchor. The swivels allow the animal to roll over freely without tangling the cable, which could break the cable or tangle the animal. One of the most important safety features is a large spring that is between the leg lop and the anchor. This allows the animal to pull against it and only meet with flexible resistance, not a solid jolting stop which could injure its leg. Sensors accompany the snares to alert researchers as soon as a snow leopard is caught, so that they can immediately attend to the cat. 1 0 36 rulovechater@mail.ru http://street-streetmachine.blogspot.com/ 24.18.55.218 2008-08-18 07:40:05 2008-08-18 14:40:05 Your blog is interesting! Keep up the good work! 1 0 71 siri@snowleopard.org http:// 67.42.89.85 2008-09-02 22:26:32 2008-09-03 05:26:32 Thanks for the comment! We hope you keep reading. 1 0 The Challenges of Studying Snow Leopards http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=42 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:43:35 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=42 Tom, our lead researcher, describes the "pains" of field research in Mongolia. Snares have been set so that snow leopards can be captured and fitted with GPS radio collars. The team will do everything they can to make sure the snares are safe and do not harm snow leopard [to find out more, click HERE]. Part of that means checking them all many times each day: 

    We are settling into a routine here at Camp Tserendeleg.  Most of our snares [13 so far] are out now, just a few more to find good places for.  It's not clear when the leopards will make their rounds again to remark the sites where our traps are waiting.  A day? A week?  A month?  No way to tell, we just wait.

    Waiting does not mean we just sit, far from it.  The day starts at about 5:30 AM when one lucky soul gets to climb about a thousand feet up a steep mountain side behind camp to a small notch in the ridgeline above.  From there they listen to each of the 13 radios that are attached to our snares. Normally those radios send a slow steady series of beeps indicating the snares have not been disturbed, but if a snare is tripped it pulls a small magnet off the radio and the pulse rate of the beeps becomes much faster (as will our heart rate when that finally happens!)  So far only the slow steady beep of 13 radios has greeted the person who has made the pre-dawn climb. Their radio call back down to camp is short and simple, "No leopards, I'm headed down." Despite the fact our trap radios suggest that no leopards have visited during the night, we visit every trap each day just to be sure.  A leopard left in a snare because of a technological glitch is a mistake we simply won't abide.  Checking the snares is a long process.  To visit and check on each snare requires a hike of about 15 km (8 miles) - very little of it flat and some of it down right precipitous.  On a normal day two teams can cover the entire trap line in about 3 or 4 hours.  Early evenings are generally spent sorting and storing the myriad pieces of equipment that have gone to the field that day; trap building tools, GPS, cameras, etc.  And then putting all of the day's data into the computer. Even simple snare building generates a lot of data, such as GPS location of the snare, what valley it's placed in, frequency of the trap sensor radio, and dozens of things we note about each snare site so we can see what works and what doesn't.   By about 7:00 we are done working and famished.  You might think that was the end of the day, but one task remains.  Just before the light fails someone must again scale the 1,000 foot ridgeline and listen to the snare radios one more time.  We wouldn't want a cat to stay in a snare overnight.  Kim, a dedicated mountain biker who also seems to be part mountain goat, has voluntarily taken far more than her share of trips up what we have dubbed "Signal Mountain," and she has paid a price for that. The skin on her heels quickly went from just blistered to raw red wounds. She tried bandages and medical tape, and then resorted to plastering duct tape directly onto the sores, but it too just peeled off.  Orjan finally came to the rescue with a roll of Swedish leucoplast which seems to be doing the trick.  That's about a normal day.  The generator is shut down at 10:00 PM and few of us have the energy to read books by headlamp.  It's a repeat of the same tomorrow at 5:30 AM.   ]]>
    42 2008-08-19 09:43:35 2008-08-19 16:43:35 open open the-challenges-of-studying-snow-leopards publish 0 0 post 60 u4587390@anu.edu.au 150.203.189.187 2008-09-01 00:08:19 2008-09-01 07:08:19 Wow, that sounds cool! My sort of job. Do you guys ever get any days off? 1 0
    See Photos! http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=50 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:57:22 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=50 Want to see photos from the base camp? Here are two options: Go to the Snow Leopard Trust Flickr site. Photos here will be mostly of snow leopards. We just caught our first snow leopard on trap camera! Check out the Category on the right called "Mongolia: Life at Base Camp Photo Gallery." In here is a candid look into the lives of the people living and working at our base camp.]]> 50 2008-08-20 10:57:22 2008-08-20 17:57:22 open open see-photos publish 0 0 post Breaking News: GPS Collar Placed on Snow Leopard “Aztai” http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=43 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:40:33 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=43 This just in from Tom and his team in Mongolia: "Aztai" is the first snow leopard to wear a GPS collar as part of our long-term ecological study. If you would like to hear it from Orjan's perspective (Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia), click HERE.

    In the early morning of 19 August a young adult male snow leopard was fitted with a GPS collar in Mongolia's South Gobi Province as part of a new long-term ecological study of the rare and endangered species.

    The snow leopard, which the research team named Aztai (meaning "Lucky" in Mongolian) is 36.5 kg (80 lb). In less than an hour the collar was attached, and the handsome cat retreated silently back into the mountains. Aztai hails from the Gobi Desert, which supports one of the richest populations of snow leopards in Mongolia, a country which itself boasts the second highest number of the rare cats anywhere in their vast Asian range. The collar is designed to collect highly accurate locations for the cat every nine hours using a GPS unit embedded in the collar, and then immediately relay the data to researchers via the Globalstar satellite phone system. This is the first time such technology has been utilized in the study of these endangered cats. The collar is programmed to operate for 13 months before it automatically opens and falls off. Researchers will then retrieve the collar and download any data that was not successfully uplinked via satellite phone. ]]> 43 2008-08-21 09:40:33 2008-08-21 16:40:33 open open breaking-news-gps-collar-placed-on-snow-leopard-aztai publish 0 0 post First GPS Collar Placed http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=44 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:58:07 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=44 Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project.  These are his adventures...

    [This is an excerpt from a longer article; some sections have been edited down or reordered. To read Orjan's original letter, click HERE]

    We caught our first snow leopard today! He is a 36 kg male, about three years old and his name is Aztai which means lucky in Mongolian. We have had some very busy days, hiking and climbing to check for good trap sites and setting the last traps. We had 17 traps ready. Chris, the Austrian vet, came two days ago and we have rehearsed capture procedures, drug dosages etc. I must say that I have learned so much from Tom, Chris and Kim the last week. I am really glad that Tom and Kim are here and it feels great to have them leading this project. Two days ago the alarm on a trap was released for the first time and we were all excited as we were sitting in the van, heading for the trap. Yesterday morning we had our second false alarm, both these times it seems as if a rodent have tripped the wire to the transmitter. Even though everyone was disappointed that there was no snow leopard in the traps, both occasions served as good rehearsals at the same time as they took the edge of the first "panic" when the alarm went. Yesterday afternoon my stomach started cramping and I got a bit sick, couldn't even drink water so I headed for bed and stayed there. I woke up this morning hearing that Namshur, who had checked the transmitters from the mountain, had heard that one alarm was on. Apparently, it was the one across the valley. I felt quite weak and was trying to decide whether I could get up or not so to be honest, I was kind of hoping that it would be a false alarm. Pursee and Pujii, our two Mongolian biologists went over to check the trap and after a while I heard Tom shouting "they are running" and a little later "Irbis", which is Mongolian for snow leopard. I crawled out of bed, mind set that I will try, but maybe let Tom or Chris run the capture in case I felt too weak. (Chris later told me that there was no chance that I was staying in bed and that he would have carried me to the trap if necessary). Well the rest of the [collaring] was more or less standard and everything went good. We gave Aztai the antidote [to help the anesthesia wear off] and walked away a bit so he wouldn't be stressed. As he got up and started moving around I decided that I will stop looking for snow leopards in the mountains. Even with binoculars it was almost impossible to see him. Snow leopards are truly magnificent animals and it was a stunning moment to be so close to one. As we got back to camp, I sorted out the samples we had collected and then passed out in bed. This afternoon, Chris [a visiting vet] taught Kim and me how to suture in case any of the staff, or a leopard, gets injured. We used a hamster that was caught in a mouse trap in the office ger last night as a patient but despite our greatest efforts, we where not able to revive the poor fellow. So, that's what happened today. I can't think of what more to write, nothing seems important compared to the capture, though I have missed to write some things.]]>
    44 2008-08-21 09:58:07 2008-08-21 16:58:07 open open first-gps-collar-placed publish 0 0 post 1122 http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=123 208.113.202.211 2009-02-23 12:09:28 2009-02-23 19:09:28 [...] repeats itself.  It was Aztai [collared in August 2008]. He seemed to be in good condition, lying snuggled up against a sunny [...] 1 pingback 0
    Helen Makes Her Debut http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=57 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:08:04 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=57 Earlier we told you that the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, WA welcomed a new snow leopard. She has now been named "Helen" after the late Helen Freeman, the founder of the Snow Leopard Trust.  Helen is three years old and today she took her first steps into the Zoo's snow leopard exhibit.

    Helen joins Nadia, who is 14 years old, and Tom, who is only two years old (named for the cat in the "Tom and Jerry" cartoon). Tom and Helen have been recommended for breeding by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums.  

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    Heavy rain in the Gobi desert http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=53 Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:00:26 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=53 Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project.  These are his adventures...

    Considering that we are at the border to the Gobi desert I must say that it rained quite heavily the night after we caught Aztai so yesterday, we had to check all our traps to make sure that the cloth that covers the hole and the trigger for the trap hadn't sunken in. Apparently, the dirt that covers the cloth and the snare (a metal wire) can also "cement together" and slow the snare down thereby enabling the animal to pull it's foot out of the snare before it closes. Hmm, there's a whole lot of new terms in this field that I'm not really familiar with. I have never tried to explain trapping in English before.

    Anyway, Namshur and I went to check some of the traps and Tom and Chris did the others. Nothing much happened except that we got a bit lost trying to take a short-cut through a pass. I was a little weak after my illness but not too bad.

    Kim, Pujii and Pursee have been away for a couple of days to finish the last site-occupancy surveys (they walk defined paths searching for snow leopard signs such as scrapes, scats, pug marks). Pujii' will use this data for her Master's thesis when she gets back to U.S.

    Compared to the first week, the past days have been quite slow, I have gone through all equipment in the camp to see what we have, checked the medical kit together with Chris and re-arranged and added some things to the capture kit. Among other things, it now contains a flashlight and a leatherman tool kit. I usually carry my multi-tool but it's hard to remember everything in the mornings and considering my physical situation in the last capture it seems as if I can't choose when we catch the cats and I figure that next time I will be in the shower or something and turn up in underwear with no equipment at all. 

    Speaking of the shower, I just had one and I can't praise it enough. I have promised Namshur a gold medal in shower building (a little Olympic influenced). We have a solar heated shower that contains 9L of water, if left outside for five hours, the water is hot and the bag contains enough for two people to get thoroughly clean. I have my doubts about the shower in winter, there is an apparent risk that my feet might freeze to the rocks. Well, that will be a later problem.

    Tom, Pujii, Pursee, Chris and Biamba left the camp this morning. Orjan says it feels a bit empty. Mije, Oyuna, Kim and Namshur are still there, but soon Kim will leave and Orjan will be in charge.

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    Title, Snow leopards 2 (maybe 3) - Researchers 0 http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=54 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:07:04 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=54 Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project.  These are his adventures...

    Yesterday morning, Kim woke me up saying " one of the snares has changed pulse." "Really" I replied, a bit newly awake. "Yup" she replied and left the ger. As I tried to get out of the sleeping bag and find my clothes, I heard Kim saying "one more?", obviously addressing Namshur who was checking the traps that we can hear from camp. I had put on my pants and was just about to grab the deodorant (a quick farmers-shower) when I heard Kim saying "three?" To hell with the deodorant, I ain't here to be pretty or smell good, just threw on some clothes and went outside in time to see Namshur start ascending the mountain to check the signals from the traps that we can't hear from camp. It takes at least 15 minutes to get to the saddle [dip in the mountain] where we check the traps so I grabbed a sandwich and a cup of tea and went to check the capture kit. After a while, Namshur called in on the radio saying "five snares are fast [sending signals]." Kim asked him to repeat, no, we heard right, five traps have been tripped. Kim and I look at each other saying, "are we being invaded by snow leopards"?

    I was a bit  stressed when I realized that I hadn't packed the capture kit for multiple captures, sure enough, there would not be a snow leopard in all of the snares but there might be a few Ibex or a female with kittens so I had to supplement the pack with syringes and other stuff.

    You might find it a bit too relaxed to have breakfast before we left but the thing is that our vehicle left with Tom and the others so we were going to have to hike to all our snares on foot (about 12 km) so I figured that I would need some energy.

    The first two traps, both of them in a canyon called Wind Tunnel, were tripped by a snow leopard. Downside was, there were no snow leopard in either of the traps, just some hair... I will take the blame for it, I cleaned these traps after the rain and the only explanation is that I didn't do a good enough job with getting all the debris off from the cable, with the result that the cable ran too slow and the leopard was able to pull it's paw out of the snare before it closed. Feels really bad but I learned that lesson and it won't happen again. Only good thing about it is that we know that the traps are placed good since he/she stepped in both of them...

    Well, we still had three to go, off to the North Canyon.

    No leopard here either. Actually, what happened was that the string from the trap to the transmitter was pulled out, most likely, an ibex had tripped on it.

    Oh well, there were still two traps left, off to Pujii's Canyon.

    This trap was released and the snare was closed tight but no leopard. And no hair. Something had stepped into the trap but we don't know what, maybe a smaller animal (fox or a leopard kitten) or the snare was also too slow and the leopard got away, though we couldn't find any hair on this snare. We did find fresh pug marks in the sand a few hundred meters from the snare but apart from that, nothing.

    Well, the last trap had to contain a leopard, right?

    No.

    Actually, nothing had happened to this trap, it probably malfunctioned cause when we came there, the radio pulse was normal. We got afraid that we had mixed up the frequencies and since we had already checked most of the snares, we hiked to the remaining four to check them too.

    All this was accomplished in less than four hours with the only result being that we were quite tired when we got back to camp. We had walked as fast as we could considering there might be an animal trapped and it was getting hot rapidly.

    So much for yesterday, today we downloaded pictures from a trap camera and found a new leopard (as in, one that we haven't identified before); we have at least five different leopards visiting the area where the traps are (within 3 km from camp). We also built a new trap at a saddle where we have photographed three different individuals.

    Oyuna left the camp together with Benji yesterday. Benji is going to Dalandzadgad for another semester at the boarding school and Oyuna wanted to accompany her so we are cooking our own food for a couple of days. Quite interesting since at least I am unfamiliar with many of the ingredients in camp. Apparently, Oyuna is worried that I don't eat enough too, especially that I don't eat enough meat. She insists that I must eat more sheep fat, otherwise I will not survive the winter. Last time we went to Gurvantes she wanted me to shave so she could introduce me to some nice Mongolian girls, I explained that my beard will soon be very long and that the girls would not like me, it's quite funny, I just hope that there will be no serious attempts to find a girl for me. Could be a bit awkward to get out of that situation.

    We hope that our new car will come in a week, together with my motorbike, for the moment we are stranded in camp with no means to get water or food. I might have forgot to write that there is a well about 4 km away where we get our water. I really need to find me some camels. They would be great for getting water, hauling equipment into the mountains and for leisure trips on days off.

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    Hampster invasions and other problems http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=58 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:29:42 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=58 It seems hampsters--yes, those cute little critters you find in pet stores--are native to Mongolia and they are invading the yurts at our base camp.

    Another problem, this one not quite so cute: gas prices have gone up by 30% and are now equivalent to around $5 (US) /gallon.

    This is a real challenge considering snow leopards don't live near cities, they live far out in the field. Our base camp is in prime snow leopard habitat, but it's a 10 hour drive from the provincial capital of Dalanzadgad (the nearest public airport), and 22 hours from the national capital of Ulaanbaatar. Locally, the team has to drive just to get water, or food. And the drive is over some of the rockiest terrain you can imagine--think cobblestone with extra cobbles and stones.

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    58 2008-08-28 16:29:42 2008-08-28 23:29:42 open open hampster-invasions-and-other-problems publish 0 0 post 70 siri@snowleopard.org http:// 67.42.89.85 2008-09-02 22:13:16 2008-09-03 05:13:16 Hi Tim, thanks for the comment. You're one of the first to leave a comment (obviously), and it helps us a lot. For one thing, now we know people are reading! I'm glad you enjoy it so far. Let us know if there are ways we can improve. 1 0 80 funksara@students.gpc.edu 68.218.9.146 2008-09-06 15:48:27 2008-09-06 22:48:27 Snow leopards are my favorite animals. Thanks for going all the way out there to save them! I hope to create animated cartoons someday; is there a way that I could access the trap camera photos (in Aug. 15, a post mentioned that they take photos one at a time very quickly)? They could help animators capture the movements of these animals in their drawings. 1 0 93 siri@snowleopard.org http:// 24.19.53.28 2008-09-12 09:29:04 2008-09-12 16:29:04 Several trap camera photos can be accessed here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/snowleopardtrust Enjoy! 1 0 58 email@mydebtreliefblog.com http://www.mydebtreliefblog.com 74.53.95.194 2008-08-28 17:00:26 2008-08-29 00:00:26 I recently came accross your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I dont know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. Tim Ramsey 1 0 179 siri@snowleopard.org http:// 75.160.102.185 2008-09-22 14:38:40 2008-09-22 21:38:40 Just a follow-up, I just received a short video from the field in which they did actually combine their trap camera photos to make a "video"--I'll post it to the Mongolia: Life at Base Camp Photo Gallery, and to the Snow Leopard Trust Flickr page. 1 0 210 ldxoji@msn.com http://onet.pl 89.76.6.7 2008-09-24 12:01:36 2008-09-24 19:01:36 good site bmsizu 1 0 2498 pooroneecoure@gmail.com http://o2.pl 84.10.163.48 2009-08-12 05:11:39 2009-08-12 12:11:39 good work here onion spam 0
    Freezing our #@!#’s off in the Gobi http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=60 Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:35:41 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=60 Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project.  These are his adventures...

    Well, the big thing is that it's cold! as in really cold. Or maybe not really cold, but it feels really cold cause I've gotten used to the heat. Two days ago, I wore a short sleeved shirt and was sweating badly, today, I have long-johns and a down jacket to keep from shivering. The thermometer claim that it's 6 degrees C outside [around 42 F] , though I'm not convinced cause a couple of hours ago, a pair of polar bears walked past camp, heading south. The camp is superb, it really is. Though there is a slight mistake in the planning. It is great for summer temperatures, but we only have one stove (which would be OK, we could heat up one ger and stay there) but there is no firewood, dung or coal to burn in the stove (this could off course be solved if we had a vehicle but that left for UB [Ulaanbaatar--the capital] five days ago). That car was returned to Snow Leopard Enterprise, a local NGO, who needed it back. The plan is that as soon as Snow Leopard Trust has wired money to buy a new car the staff in UB will do so and send it here. We are kind of hoping that it will happen fairly soon cause we are running low on water and Mije heard on the radio that it's going to snow tomorrow, so just a little bit of heat would be kind of neat. I know that 6 degrees isn't really cold, but it gets kind of cold when it's the same temperature inside and you never get warm. And as I wrote, my body has probably just adjusted to the heat in the Gobi so it feels colder than it is. The rain has probably clogged up our snares so our hopes to catch a cat tonight aren't very high, lessens the motivation to hike up signal mountain a bit... Well, I have looked at the trap camera pictures, done some calculations and are now fairly sure that we will catch our next snow leopard on the 2nd of September. Plus - minus one day. Have to sign out, Namshur is doing the evening check inside the ger and one of the traps is set [triggered], got to put on some clothes and check it out. --- Back again, the trap was tripped but nothing in it. Darn.]]>
    60 2008-08-30 13:35:41 2008-08-30 20:35:41 open open freezing-our-s-off-in-the-gobi publish 0 0 post 92 chrishind@internode.on.net 121.44.34.30 2008-09-12 04:49:45 2008-09-12 11:49:45 Hi Orjan. Congratulations on the work you are doing! Not envious of the cold , but sure envious of the work and the importance of it .... I do volunteer work in Australia on conservation projects , but the scale and importanceof what you are doing dwarfs my efforts ..and I admire you incredibly for that! You are working on saving one of the most beautiful animals in the world! And one of the most elusive!! So your job is critically important. As a contributer to the Snow Leopard Trust , your blogs are a fantastic way for us to see how our donations are being spent. It is good to know people like you are in the front lines. I wish you every success. Chris from Australia. 1 0 75 sibyllenoras@yahoo.com.au 58.161.20.179 2008-09-04 17:38:32 2008-09-05 00:38:32 Great work Orjan! I'm following all this with delight from Australia where I'm a sponsor of snow leopards at Melbourne Zoo. Fanstatic to see the pics and the colaring work, it must be so exciting. But I have a question, are there really polar bears near you? ;-) 1 0
    First Look At Mirucha http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=59 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:35:47 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=59 Aiko (the keeper) released these first pictures today of MAYU and her new baby girl, MIRUCHA. This is an ambiguous name for a color that is "A mixture of Brown & Grey" in Japanese.    She is just coming up to 3 months old, so now we have three 5-month old boys plus her!  Great time to be a zoo photographer!  She will be outside for the first time today (Sat.30th), so I hope to get some shots of her next week. She's the 12th cub born at the zoo since 2001, and all of them are fit & well. 

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    59 2008-09-02 10:35:47 2008-09-02 17:35:47 open open first-look-at-mirucha publish 0 0 post 286 valdemar5@mac.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/tony_enamel/ 221.132.157.132 2008-10-03 23:23:27 2008-10-04 06:23:27 Hi Sibylle. Sorry to have taken so long to respond, but I've just returned from a trip to the States where I was "shooting" a variety of cats & bears. I'm a Melbourne boy myself, but I've been here in Japan going on 16 years. I'm very fortunate to have a wonderful zoo with the Northern hemisphere's most successful Snow Leopard breeding program just 15 minutes from my front door. Are you on the staff at Melbourne zoo? I was there last July, and took a few shots of your SL's, but the close wire mesh makes it very difficult to get acceptable results. The enclosure at Tama Zoo has two viewing areas. One behind glass (where they display the cubs), and the other with a much wider spaced mesh on the fence than Melbourne's. Inevitably, the glass gets smothered in grubby little fingerprints, but Photoshop can come in useful there! I've been photographing zoo animals since year dot, and the secret is to have a telephoto or zoom lens with a large aperture. I don't want to get too technical, but a lens that has an aperture of f/2.8 or f/4 is perfect, as it allows you to focus on the animals face, but at the same time, eliminate the mesh completely! (As long as the fence is in shadow. Any sunlit fence becomes obvious) I'm generally shooting at between 3 to 7 metres with a 300mm f/2.8 telephoto lens, or a 70-200mm f/2.8 zoom lens, but you certainly don't need anything as exotic (or expensive) as them. Take a look at my "Flickr" site to catch a few more shots, and also some recent additions taken at a special place called "Animals of Montana", where I was recently. Good luck with the cubs in Melbourne, and go the mighty Hawks! 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    Private: Who is Steve Tracy? Where is Tama Zoo? http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?page_id=64 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:27:47 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?page_id=64 Steve Tracy lives in Japan and regularly visits Tama Zoological Park in Tokyo, Japan. Thanks to Steve, and his friends Misako and Aiko, we are able to take a look into the lives of Tama Zoo's snow leopards.

    I'm from Melbourne, Australia.  I was born in London, England, but my family was part of a mass immigration to Australia during the 50's & 60's.  I was eight when I left, and I've never been back in the 50 years since.

    I consider CAIRNS in Queensland State my true home as I worked as a Professional photographer there for nearly 15 years. In that time, I spent 7 of those years as a Photo store manager, and a further 7 years working with research scientists from JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY, taking pics of Australian Tarantulas & Spiders. (Not quite as cuddly as snow leopards, but I love 'em!)

    I came to Japan in 1993 after marrying a wonderful Japanese lady named SHIZUKO. As I was a qualified teacher before turning my hand to photography, (my passion) I'm again now teaching English at two Senior High schools in Tokyo. Not as satisfying as watching snow leopards, but still mostly lovely kids,  (We don't have any kids ourselves).

    The Tokyo Government has spent millions rejuvenating Tama Zoo, and it is now without doubt the best zoo in Japan.  Lovely landscaping, rolling hills, heavily treed, gorgeous Fall colors, and the sound of millions of Cicadas in Summer. I love being there, as it's a true oasis in Tokyo's "Heat Island & Concrete Jungle!" 

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    Misako Fujita is an expert on snow leopards in Japan. She knows their family trees, current & past locations including living conditions, all of their names (!), current health status. You name it, she knows it.

    In the hours she's not at some zoo somewhere in Japan, she works in a city office.  She is on first name terms with virtually every cat keeper in the country. She works under the pen-name YUKINEKO (Snowcat), and was a finalist in last year's Snow Leopard Trust photo contest, plus her photo was a "Picture of the Month" winner more recently.

    The snow leopard keeper at Tama Zoo is AIKO FUKUDA. She has been at Tama Zoo since graduation, and in that time has overseen the successful births of 12 healthy, bouncing snow leopard cubs, most of which are doing very well in their respective zoos.    

    Her adoration for the cats and her willingness to answer anyone's questions (even though she's as busy as blazes with 4 cubs at the moment, makes her the perfect keeper in my eyes.

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    Snow Leopard Trials and Joys http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=71 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:04:08 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=71 The success of our recent snow leopard capture in Mongolia is something we can all share pride in, but it also carries a lot of responsibility.  We now have a live cat with our collar on it, and data streaming in.  The welfare of the cat, and how useful the research results prove to be, is something we are responsible for now, and something that the team in Camp and I think about constantly.  So when I downloaded the data from the collar yesterday and found 3 days worth of good GPS relocations I was quite pleased and sent the data to Camp. Then I plotted the data myself using Google Earth.  I rechecked the data several times and then sent Camp another note.

    Hey guys, I just plotted that data I sent you and it doesn't look good.  The cat/collar has not moved at all in about 3 days. Maybe he is on a kill, but I see no movement at all.  This is not good.  Check it out please when you have a car or motorcycle to get you there, and let me know what we have.  Tom

    The 9 hour time difference between Seattle and the Gobi means it will be at least 12 hours before I hear from them.  So I have LOTS of time to wonder what has happened. I am on the computer first thing in the morning to see if there is news from Camp.  There are 2 letters from them.  The first letter indicates that Kim has not waited for vehicle support to get to the bottom of it.  She wrote:

    Ouch!  This is lousy news indeed.  Orjan and Namshir just left on foot to check out the site of Aztai's most recent locations.  They took the receiver and antenna and a GPS unit with a few of the locations from the collar.  My guess is that the release mechanism has failed [meaning the collar has "released" and falled off prematurely], but obviously I'm hoping for the world's largest ibex kill.  We'll let you know as soon as we have an update.  Kim

    The second letter has the outcome:

    Hey Tom,  Fantastic news!  Orjan and Namshir just returned from the field.  There was no sign of Aztai or his collar at the site.  But, they did find the fresh carcass of a FREAKIN HUGE male ibex (12 yrs. old) and a fresh pug mark at the water hole nearby!  So, Aztai's   collar locations should begin moving again, as the carcass was stripped clean.  But perhaps he'll be a bit sluggish for the next couple of days given how much he appears to have eaten over the past week.  This is incredible news on several accounts.  Congrats!   Kim

    Just to confirm what I am reading, I log on and download the latest collar data.  Two data points have been uploaded from the collar in the last 12 hours and I write back to Camp:

    Wow, you guys just made my morning!  That is such great news.  And he IS moving.  About 3/4 of a mile NE of the kill site now.         

    Thats all.  Just thought it would be fun to share this. 

    Tom

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    Thoughts and reflections about life in Mongolia http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=72 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:28:37 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=72 Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project.  These are his adventures...

    Its warm again. Which is nice, and what makes it even nicer is that it's not super-hot. Neither the car nor the cook has arrived yet. Kim has worked in Mongolia before so she is not as naive as I am but both of us have learned a few new things about the herder-mentality.

    1. As long as there is a tiny bit of something left, you do not need to get more. For example, if a car is going to town (which takes about 1 hour one-way) and there is one slice of bread left, we do not need to buy bread. However, when the car comes back and someone has eaten the slice we are in desperate need of bread and must immediately go and buy more. The same applies to water, vegetables etc. As long as you have some left, there is no need to replenish the supplies. Since many things can only be found in UB or Dalandzadgad this view of life is a bit frustrating. (though, this was not new for Kim).

    2. "this water is not so good for drinking, smells a bit bad, good for shower or cleaning" might mean that the water smells a bit because it has been sitting in the jerry can for too long. But it might also mean "someone put gasoline in that can, better not drink the water". I was a bit surprised when i noticed that the result of my latest shower was not that my body was immensely clean and smelled like roses; rather I had a lingering odor of gasoline around me.

    3. How to tenderize your dried sheep meat: You simply choose a piece that catches your delight, put it on a big flat stone (the stone has been sitting on the kitchen floor since we came but we haven't really paid attention to it before) and beat the crap out of the sheep with a hammer. Kim and I are both eagerly waiting for this to be shown on TV on a cooking show "and now, it is time to beat the sheep..."

    4. The standard answer to many questions is "no problem". Kim and I can't really agree on what exactly this means. I think that the locals simply leave out the words "life threatening" in between so what they really say is "no life threatening problem" while Kim thinks that "no problem" means something in between "hopefully" and "in your dreams, sucker".

    Oh, got to write one last thing. A couple of days ago as I was sitting on my bed changing to my boots I noticed that something was moving in Kim's bed. Kind of odd I thought and took a closer look. Sure enough there was a snake crawling around in the bed. I called Kim but the snake didn't seem to appreciate the commotion so it tried to hide in the sleeping bag... Namshur claimed that it wasn't toxic, grabbed it by the tail and carried it out (that ought to keep mom from visiting the camp...)

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    Build it and the Snow Leopards Will Come–Maybe http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=73 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:38:10 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=73 Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project.  These are his adventures...

    I was wrong about catching a cat on the 2nd of September, too bad, we almost caught one though. A week ago a trap camera photographed a snow leopard at a trap site. He was standing looking at the big pile of rocks that were stashed between him and the scrape that he wanted to get to [one way snow leopards mark their territory is by scraping with their claws].

    Short explanation: everything takes place at the foot of a cliff wall, the trap is set close too the wall cause snow leopards like to walk along walls. On the other side of the trap we buried a big piece of scrap metal that the snare is attached to and on top of the metal there is a pile of rocks. The idea is that the leopard will walk between the rock pile and the cliff and that the rocks will funnel him into the snare. In theory this holds. It's just that our spotted friend didn't agree; he thought that the rock pile looked a bit suspicious so instead of walking between the rocks and the wall, he climbed the rocks and took a pee at the scrape.

     A few bad Swedish words could be heard quite far from the camp when we looked at the pictures from the trap camera...

    I think that Aztai was the 14th snow leopard ever to be collared and so there is very little knowledge of how to trap them. Naturally, the trapping is based on trial and error and Kim and I have the huge benefit of having cameras at the trap sites so we can actually see what the cats are doing, what scares them and even where they place their feet. The concerned trap was one of the first we set and in the beginning, everyone really wanted to help, and we might have gotten a bit carried away in the rock-pile building...

    Anyways, shame on the ones who give up. We went to the trap, threw away all rocks, moved the trap and the metal piece and opened up the area so it wouldn't look as suspicious.

    As we have hiked around and checked and fixed the traps after the rain, we have taken away lots of rocks. In some cases I have replaced them with small thorny bushes, hoping that these will not look as threatening but still do the job of funneling the cat towards the trap.

    A couple of days later we downloaded the pics from from the nearby camera and you can probably imagine that the bad Swedish words that came out of my mouth this time were even worse and could be heard even longer cause on the pictures there was a new cat standing on top of our trap. He had one foot on each side of the trap, looked into the camera for a while, then walked to the scrape, turned toward the camera and really took his time relieving himself...   ]]> 73 2008-09-04 11:38:10 2008-09-04 18:38:10 open open build-it-and-the-snow-leopards-will-come publish 0 0 post http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?attachment_id=68 Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:45:44 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/2803786238_bd508dbefd.jpg 68 2008-09-12 09:45:44 2008-09-12 16:45:44 open open 68 inherit 67 0 attachment _wp_attached_file /home/.pops/snowleopard/blog.snowleopard.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/2803786238_bd508dbefd.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:5:{s:5:"width";i:500;s:6:"height";i:400;s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='96' width='120'";s:4:"file";s:97:"/home/.pops/snowleopard/blog.snowleopard.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/2803786238_bd508dbefd.jpg";s:5:"thumb";s:35:"2803786238_bd508dbefd.thumbnail.jpg";} Trap Camera Photos and More http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=67 Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:46:34 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=67 Flickr page. You can also see pictures of our base camp, and our "Photo of the Month" series.

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    Don’t kill the cook http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=76 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:13:33 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=76 Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project.  These are his adventures...

    At about noon, Kim and Namshur all left the camp. Mije is driving and Oyuna came along. She has been complaining about a bad tooth ache for a while and on the 13th she asked if I could give her some of the drugs we use for the snow leopards and pull the tooth…

     I don’t want to be rude but I’m not too keen on killing the cook either so I said no. Though I offered her to go to Dalandzadgad with the crew to visit a dentist instead and she took the offer. I think that dentist and blacksmith is the same thing out here and there is probably not much hope of getting any other pain relief than Vodka. I would hesitate to go to the dentist too under these conditions.

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    World’s oldest snow leopard honored in Nagoya http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=69 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:47:24 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=69

    A special ceremony was held at the zoo recognizing her as the oldest snow leopard in the world. The leopard is 20-years-old, which is about 100 in snow leopard years.

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    3 Cubs Born at Denver Zoo http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=74 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:59:08 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=74 On June 29, 2008, three cubs were born at the Denver Zoo. The cubs were born to mother Natasha and father Suba, and their names are Bataar (male), Kisa (female), and Milenka (female).

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    Second Snow Leopard Collared! http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=75 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:01:33 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=75 In the early morning of September 14, the members of the base camp research team heard the alert as one of their traps had been triggered...

    7:55 am, 14th of September 2008, we did radio-collar the snow leopard formerly known as Longtail.   You could almost touch the tension in the car as we were driving towards the trap, since it was Kim’s last day she walked the last part to the trap and soon came back with her thumbs up. Oh, man. That felt so great, especially after all these empty snares and false alarms.

    I kind of recognized the snow leopard's face pattern (he has two arches above his eyes) and was almost sure that it was Longtail. The cat had managed to move the trap several meters away from its previous position and our trap camera was dead. It received a fatal blow during the capture, you can actually see where the canine teeth went in, he really tried to kill the camera.

    If you think of it it’s not very strange, the cat we caught was a 44 kg heavy male. He probably considers himself to be pretty cool and he is in the middle of his home range (we think). As he strolls up Snow Leopard Alley [the area where the trap was placed], he suddenly feels the smell of another cats poop on his scrape! So he walks up, sniffs the scat and as just as he is getting in position to erase this ordeal his paw gets caught. But that’s not all. The bastards who did this to him didn’t stop there. No, they put a camera at the trap to take pictures of him in his humiliation and since it is dark that camera uses a red “flash” for the Infra red pictures.

    Even if the pictures are of lousy quality we can actually see the nose in one picture and in the next; the canines when Longtail decides that the “flashing” thing must die!

    The capture went smoothly and we got all the samples. We collected blood in 10 filter paper strips. Acknowledging that we know little about aging cats, we estimate that Bayartai is approximately 4 years old based on his size and the condition of his teeth. 

    Mije decided that the cat should be named Bayartai (pronounced Bayr’te) which means “Good bye” and also “everybody happy”. I’m glad that Kim and Namshur were around to catch this cat cause he has fooled us a few times. Oh, he wore his previous name with honor, Longtail’s tail was 1.8 cm longer than Aztai’s!

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    75 2008-09-24 12:01:33 2008-09-24 19:01:33 open open second-snow-leopard-collared publish 0 0 post 338 stevens-weyrick@sbcglobal.net 75.23.82.192 2008-10-12 18:09:08 2008-10-13 01:09:08 how WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!!!!! Your work is breathtaking, humbling and inspiring. Thank you- The Weyricks 1 0 291 1234HOT_CHIC@live.com 87.102.74.80 2008-10-04 07:48:18 2008-10-04 14:48:18 fab news! i love snow leopards and admire all of you closely. keep it up! Snow leopard girl 1 0 1271 joseantoniobarros@gmail.com http://www.ideas-4-pets.com/articles/winter-dog-beds-cat-beds/ 213.63.112.44 2009-03-09 00:23:43 2009-03-09 07:23:43 Found your site very interesting, full of informative articles, added to my favourites. 1 0 290 chrishind@internode.on.net 121.44.33.84 2008-10-04 03:05:57 2008-10-04 10:05:57 Great news. Congratulations!!! Following your escapades closely. Keep up the good work!! Chris 1 0
    Ashley Sights His First Snow Leopard http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=78 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:33:27 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=78 Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project.  These are his adventures...

    First of all, perfume works great as attractant [the team is trying to catch a female snow leopard since so far they only have collared males]. Downside is that the one I have access to, Boss, seems to work only on foxes. We have had three snares tripped by fox the last four days.  

    Two of the traps were tripped this morning [false alarms]. It was too far to hike considering the hour (about 2pm) so we took the motorbike. The bike has taken a little beating and I have some bruises and sore limbs but we are both working fine. When Ashley jumped up on the bike he asked how long I had been riding. About ten days I replied, out of some reason he held on to me very tight.

    The bike is too weak for two people to ride on it in the long run but we made it fine now. Actually, it is quite weak even for one person going uphill in gravel. I have to use all my arm strength in the gravel to keep the front wheel from sliding away all the time. All in all, I don’t know much about bikes but this one works and it’s a great help.  

    We hiked the last 2 km and climbed a mountain, as we were about to go around a corner on the top of the mountain I stopped to check the GPS and Ashley took a few more steps, then he flipped around and threw himself behind the cliff saying “Leopard”. On the other side of the corner, about 4-7 meters away was Bayartai (aka Longtail), I presume. I never saw it and Ashley didn’t see if it was collared or not since the leopard was looking at him. He had an Ibex kill nearby and there was very little meat left on it. Very exciting!

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    Snow Leopard Camp Update http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=80 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:03:56 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=80 Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project.  These are his adventures...

    Our first volunteer, Ashley Spearing arrived to Dalandzadgad when Kim and Namshur took off and he has kept me busy. Ashley is a British guy who has done snow leopard work in India, Nepal and Pakistan, he taught me some new stuff and we have been looking at scrapes, signs and traps for ten days. Four days ago we got a mail from Kim saying that Longtail (Bayartai) had been in the same place for two days. Aside from that, we had to reset two traps that had been tripped by foxes (we have the foxes on pictures), good thing is that there is a stop on the snares so the cable can’t close in enough to hold a fox foot. Ashley left this morning, in three days Nadia will come here (it takes about three days to go to Dalandzadgad and back) and she will stay for two weeks, I think. So far everyone who has stayed in J.Tserendeleg Snow Leopard Camp [the official name of the base camp] has got to see a snow leopard. Thanks everyone who has written on the blog, it warms a bit to feel that I am not completely alone out here in the desert, or mountains. To be honest, Friday [the camp cat] is lying in my lap, purring, so I don’t feel completely alone. So far everyone who has stayed in J.Tserendeleg Snow Leopard Camp [the official name of the base camp] has got to see a snow leopard.]]>
    80 2008-09-26 16:03:56 2008-09-26 23:03:56 open open snow-leopard-camp-update publish 0 0 post 708 pallspoinly@mail.ru http://www.polprav.blogspot.com/ 94.180.192.55 2008-12-09 16:45:42 2008-12-09 23:45:42 Add to my Bookmarks ) 1 0
    New videos up! http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=79 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:19:02 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=79 Flickr page, there are four new snow leopard videos. Yes, they are homemade by taking tons of trap camera photos and pieceing them together like a flip book. So, they are a little rough, but fun. There is on called "following the peeper," and we have to add the disclaimer: no, the snow leopard is not eating the peeper creature. Just needs some more editing.  ]]> 79 2008-10-02 16:19:02 2008-10-02 23:19:02 open open new-videos-up publish 0 0 post Just how cool are these cameras http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=81 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:20:10 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=81 Here are some facts for you about the trap cameras we are using:

    • they take pictures every 1/2 second

    • they have a four-month battery life (supposedly, have not run out yet)

    • their flash cards each have a 15,ooo picture capacity

    In addition, the GPS radio collars are really great too. We are receiving about 60% of the signals from the collars (which is very good and means multiple GPS locations each day) and our team is mapping out how the cats are moving. It appears Aztai is headed east, away from the base camp.

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    Snow Leopards Mirucha and Mayu http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=82 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:29:36 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=82 Managed my first trip to the zoo since my return from the States. Inevitably there were thousands of kindergarteners on school trips present, so the window that 4 month old MIRUCHA is behind was smothered in prints, hence the loss of sharpness.

    These shots are just to show you how the little girl is getting on, plus a nice one of her Mum [MAYU]. She is as fit as a fiddle, but unfortunately I can't say that for one of the three 5 month old boys. Little SUOU broke a leg trying to be too ambitious on the rock-face, so the keeper has them inside for the time being.

    Catch you soon, Steve.

    4 month old "MIRUCHA" and her mum "MAYU".

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    Snow Leopard Exhibit Opens at Dakota Zoo in Bismark http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=83 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:39:45 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=83 According to the KXMB CBS12, the Dakota Zoo is opening the snow leopard portion of the Jack and Joyce Schuchart Big Cat complex. The zoo has slowly been introducing the cats to each other and their new home. The new exhibit has features important for providing a good environment, including a pool, boulders, and trees.

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    Show me the snow leopard! http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=84 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:43:13 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=84 84 2008-10-06 16:43:13 2008-10-06 23:43:13 open open show-me-the-snow-leopard publish 0 0 post 311 sibyllenoras@yahoo.com.au 58.161.20.179 2008-10-08 04:10:53 2008-10-08 11:10:53 Fantastic resource! I love visiting snow leopards when I travel and sometimes its really difficult to find out which zoos have them. Keep up the good work. Sibylle, Melbourne, Australia. BTW, we have three snow leopards at Melbourne Zoo. Sadly our beautiful 20 yr old Gregor passed awy last week. But we still have Shimbu, 18 yr old female and two six year olds, Leon and Meo. 1 0 315 valdemar5@mac.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/tony_enamel/ 221.132.155.197 2008-10-09 19:19:03 2008-10-10 02:19:03 Hi again, Sibylle. If ever you get to Japan, make sure you visit the Tama Zoo in Tokyo. It currently has five adults and four cubs, all fighting fit. They have a terrific enclosure set into a hillside in the quietest part of the zoo (except for school holidays!). That aside, the zoo itself is the finest in Japan by a mile. Might bump into you there someday, I hope. 1 0 Have we confused anyone yet? http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=85 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:36:10 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=85 85 2008-10-14 15:36:10 2008-10-14 22:36:10 open open have-we-confused-anyone-yet publish 0 0 post Snow Leopard Fast Facts http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=88 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:47:55 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=88 88 2008-10-14 15:47:55 2008-10-14 22:47:55 open open snow-leopard-fast-facts publish 0 0 post 352 jpforrest2004@yahoo.co.uk 217.43.135.178 2008-10-16 11:42:49 2008-10-16 18:42:49 Hello i hope evryone is keeping up the good work, all the best mitch 1 0 Suo doing well http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=95 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:42:28 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=95 Just a quick update: SUOU has recovered from his broken leg, so he and his brothers are again outside enjoying the gorgeous Fall weather. ]]> 95 2008-10-29 16:42:28 2008-10-29 23:42:28 open open suo-doing-well publish 0 0 post Find zoos with snow leopards http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=89 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:25:58 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=89 Want to see a snow leopard up close? The following map will show you where to find the nearest zoo that is home to a snow leopard. Click on the highlighted regions to see zoos with snow leopards. The zoos with yellow placemarks are members of our Natural Partnerships Program. View Larger Map]]> 89 2008-10-30 08:25:58 2008-10-30 15:25:58 open open find-zoos-with-snow-leopards publish 0 0 post 426 sibyllenoras@yahoo.com.au 58.161.20.179 2008-11-06 00:32:30 2008-11-06 07:32:30 Well done SLT and James, a great resource for travellers and snow leopard supporters. Sibylle, Melbourne, Australia 1 0 918 haideranjum@hotmail.com 212.219.250.33 2009-01-05 02:35:13 2009-01-05 09:35:13 really good site. i love snow leopards. i think the karakoram mountains are the best places to see proper wild snow leopards though......... 1 0 2535 qunqly@jgasqt.com http://dqkyazvvyuon.com/ 174.139.17.106 2009-08-14 18:14:57 2009-08-15 01:14:57 HVyAlf ifwjefmkyiag, [url=http://gcgzyebizomh.com/]gcgzyebizomh[/url], [link=http://igomezhlverj.com/]igomezhlverj[/link], http://tbchpmuuuikx.com/ spam 0 1842 herbert.raimund@gmx.net 85.222.86.62 2009-05-23 06:12:19 2009-05-23 13:12:19 There are two cubs in the Zoo in Warsaw now: http://www.zw.com.pl/artykul/296849,365332.html Best regards herb langhans 1 0 1745 syrianp@gmail.com 121.214.24.180 2009-05-10 04:02:16 2009-05-10 11:02:16 Please stop collaring and capturing snow leopards. Animals do not exist for our entertainment, nor is our 'need' for knowledge paramount above each creature's right to an unimpeded life. How dare we? Not until we treat each creature on Earth with respect and dignity will humans be able to claim they are civilised. Empty zoos, fill minds. People destroy much more than they create. 1 0 815 jamescox78@hotmail.com http://papanack.com 70.81.242.42 2008-12-21 19:43:18 2008-12-22 02:43:18 Hi, My name is James Cox and I'm a Zoo Keeper at Papanack Park Zoo which is situated just outside Ottawa, Canada. I was just going through the Find Zoos With Snow Leopards (which is great by the way) and thought I inform you of the Papanack's very successful Snow Leopard breeding record for a very young zoo of only 14 yrs. It has 4 Snow leopards at the moment and had up to 9 at one time, before the offspring were sent to other zoos for breeding. We have a young male and female of different bloodlines that we hope to breed successful this winter. I loved to Papanack on the map as we are all very proud of working here. Big thanks to a amazing organization. Yours Sincerely James Cox I 1 0 925 last@tallinnlv.ee http://www.tallinnzoo.ee 194.106.106.146 2009-01-08 05:03:13 2009-01-08 12:03:13 Dear Sir/Madam, I'm writing to you from Tallinn Zoo, Estonia. We are now preparing our new snow leopard enclosure. Looking for information on the species, I happened to find your website and saw the map of the zoos that are keeping this species. I would like to inform you, that Tallinn Zoo has been keeping snow leopards since 1964. First cub was born at our zoo in 1975, last cub in 2007. With kind regards, Inari Leiman Educational officer of Tallinn Zoo 1 0 1287 faisalsoofi@nexlinx.net.pk 119.152.4.164 2009-03-10 12:55:09 2009-03-10 19:55:09 An awesome tribute to a fasinating cat and the ecosystem supporting this incrediblly fascinating fantom. I salute u sir. 1 0 2536 csttmv@exnktj.com http://raadhhdardey.com/ 141.223.22.86 2009-08-14 19:29:22 2009-08-15 02:29:22 DuK43c mswbejinnmcu, [url=http://thlmoamgvfno.com/]thlmoamgvfno[/url], [link=http://yedvbctwqfwh.com/]yedvbctwqfwh[/link], http://rpxajfjinows.com/ spam 0 Hedgehogs in the Neighborhood http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=90 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:26:07 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=90

    At base camp, we receive regular visits from hedgehogs. Some are friendly, some are standoffish, but none of them are afraid of humans. Some, like this one, will even sit on your lap. His name is Narantsetseg II, and he follows our more reserved hedgehog visitor, Narantsetseg I.

    Narantsetseg I was a grump. She stayed a few days and then left. Narantsetseg II came into camp and also stayed a few days. He was friendly. We are now onto Narantsetseg the IV.]]>
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    What Bayad Taught Us About Protecting Snow Leopards in Pakistan http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=91 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:28:21 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=91 The green circle shows a general outline of a Protected Area set aside, in part, for snow leopards. Definitely it's an important region for Bayad--as you can see from the large cluster of dots there. But Bayad's dots far extend beyond this protected region. What does this mean? For the Snow Leopard Trust, it means working to promote larger Protected Areas, working with communities surrounding Protected Areas, and looking at ways to protect Bayad as she crosses borders.]]> 91 2008-11-03 17:28:21 2008-11-04 00:28:21 open open protected-areas-too-small publish 0 0 post 520 siri@snowleopard.org http:// 75.160.102.185 2008-11-18 10:20:39 2008-11-18 17:20:39 Rin, that is a very good question. I am off to ask our experts--please check back in a couple of days and I will try to post an answer. 1 0 423 highland-peace@hotmail.com http://www.kmpl.org 211.255.169.131 2008-11-05 23:10:24 2008-11-06 06:10:24 That's outstanding. It goes to show that although we try our best to dedicate necessary areas for wildlife to remain protected, the wildlife has it's own natural agenda. I believe this is much akin to the bear underpasses in North America. We need to continue our support to broaden the protective regions for the snow leopards. 1 0 427 nicolas.lescureux@gmail.com 139.124.134.2 2008-11-06 03:02:47 2008-11-06 10:02:47 Very interesting! It shows how protected areas are limited to protect predators with huge territories. It looks like the only solution is to promote cohabitation with people living in this area. That's not easy but I hope it will work. Best regards and good luck! 1 0 428 siri@snowleopard.org http:// 75.160.102.185 2008-11-06 09:52:49 2008-11-06 16:52:49 Thank you for your comments. This research is uncovering quite a bit. New technology has made it possible to track snow leopards with more accuracy. I am looking at the Snow Leopard Survival Strategy from 2003, which states "home range size and shape is not well known." We've come a long ways, but we still have a ways to go to be able to say exactly what is a typical home range size. Promoting co-habitation with local people is key. If you haven't yet, take a look at our Livestock Vaccination Program in Pakistan to see how it is working to do just that. 1 0 434 peppa.13@hotmail.com 124.177.170.141 2008-11-08 17:25:16 2008-11-09 00:25:16 it really goes to show how little we know about the snow leopards im glad there is finally someone trying and succeeding in studying these fantasic creatures 1 0 501 artia.arteyuu@gmail.com 218.186.8.12 2008-11-17 00:27:27 2008-11-17 07:27:27 Is there any update on Bayad's movements since she dropped her collar? 1 0 Where Do Snow Leopards Go http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=92 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:48:35 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=92 ]]> 92 2008-11-03 17:48:35 2008-11-04 00:48:35 open open where-do-snow-leopards-go publish 0 0 post 421 seanoneil@yahoo.com http://www.chooseveg.com 64.185.30.235 2008-11-05 20:57:01 2008-11-06 03:57:01 Go, Aztai! What a beautiful cat! 1 0 424 highland-peace@hotmail.com http://www.kmpl.org 211.255.169.131 2008-11-05 23:11:34 2008-11-06 06:11:34 Remarkable. 1 0 Cubs now six months old http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=96 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:00:21 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=96 Misako Fujita, the #1 expert on snow leopard history & breeding in Japan, has just told me how they went about treating SUOU, the 4-month-old cub who had a broken hind right leg, without the risk of isolating him from constant contact with his family at such a young age.

    The vets & keeper decided that it was too risky to separate them completely and allow the other two boys outside with their mum, while SUOU was sitting inside by himself, and not maintaining permanent contact with all of them. They came up with the solution of confining him to a smaller cage inside the main cage, so that his brothers & mother would remain familiar with his scent, and not attack him once he was released. As he was confined this way for a month, it was a worrying time for the keeper.

    However, they were all let outside together last Sunday, for the first time in 6 weeks! I'm glad to say that, after having seen them playing myself on Tuesday, everything has worked out perfectly, and he was as rough & tumble as his 2 brothers.

    Steve.

    L- R : Kohaku, Suou, Yuki, Han.

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    96 2008-11-04 17:00:21 2008-11-05 00:00:21 open open cubs-now-six-months-old publish 0 0 post 410 mogeraf@yahoo.co.jp 124.155.54.221 2008-11-04 23:32:31 2008-11-05 06:32:31 Excuse me for interfering, but you mistook their names. L-R: Kohaku, Suou, Yuki and Han, is right... 1 0 422 valdemar5@mac.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/tony_enamel/ 221.132.143.33 2008-11-05 22:55:11 2008-11-06 05:55:11 Whoops.... sorry 'bout that! They all look so much alike! I'll do my homework next time. Steve T. 1 0 419 siri@snowleopard.org http:// 75.160.102.185 2008-11-05 15:45:28 2008-11-05 22:45:28 Thanks for being on our blog and for commenting on the photo. I've updated it to be labeled correctly. 1 0 711 valdemar5@mac.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/tony_enamel/ 221.132.154.97 2008-12-10 22:36:18 2008-12-11 05:36:18 Hello Charles. Thanks for your comment. Are you currently in Japan, or were you just passing through? I've lived in Tachikawa for 16 years, and have always been a regular visitor to the Tama Zoo. I fact, I've been going there long enough to have seen one of those beautiful cats advance from 3 to 18 years old, before passing away a few months back. However, I've only been an avid SL fan since I first saw two young cubs there back in 2005. Now I'm there nearly every week! Please feel free to contact me for the chat you mentioned. I'm always happy to discuss my passion with anyone. Please take a peek at my "Flickr" site too. there are many more shots of SL's (and other cats) currently on it. You'll also find my E-mail address there. www.flickr.com/photos/tony_enamel/ 1 0 458 jonaslovecrazy3@aol.com http://ideekay? 168.169.120.108 2008-11-14 11:46:37 2008-11-14 18:46:37 i really love how much people care about this animal! it is infact a beautiful animal and people should really keep up the great hard work for keeping thi amazing animal on this planet! 1 0 928 valdemar5@mac.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/tony_enamel/ 221.132.132.82 2009-01-09 00:53:28 2009-01-09 07:53:28 The picture above is of KOHAKU, one of the 3 brothers. 1 0 703 advaitin@earthlink.net 24.110.208.229 2008-12-08 08:48:57 2008-12-08 15:48:57 Good photos. I am intrigued by Mr. Tracy's location, having once passed through Tachikawa and been to the Tama area. I would love to caht about Japan and photography. 1 0
    Blind Date at the Assiniboine Park Zoo http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=97 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:16:39 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=97 The Daily Graphic in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the local Assiniboine Park Zoo is bringing in a male snow leopard from Calgary.  He'll provide some company to Winnipeg’s lone female, Lhassa, who has been without a mate since her longtime partner Dmitri died two years ago. The pair had produced more than a dozen cubs together, who have moved on to zoos in Alaska, and Buenos Aires, Argentina. The male leopard from Calgary is being brought in with the hope that he and Lhassa will get along well enough to have some cubs of their own. When the male arrives in a week or two, he will be quarantined in the zoo hospital for a month, then placed in an enclosure next to Lhassa’s. The idea is to get each leopard used to the other’s presence. That first meeting can be unpredictable.]]> 97 2008-11-05 15:16:39 2008-11-05 22:16:39 open open blind-date-at-the-assiniboine-park-zoo publish 0 0 post Update on Shanti http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=98 Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:58:34 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=98 Remember Shanti--the snow leopard cub at Binder Park Zoo who had a puppy as a companion (see post below "Puppies raise snow leopard")? Well she's growing up. An article from the Battle Creek Inquirer says that Shanti, now almost five months old, is off the bottle food and coming into her own as a young adult. Her puppy friend, who is now also bigger, is off to live somewhere else and Shanti will be slowly introduced to the zoos other snow leopards.

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    98 2008-11-06 09:58:34 2008-11-06 16:58:34 open open update-on-shanti publish 0 0 post 1461 luis2715@mail.yahoo.com http://www.buy-cat-food.com/ 87.148.75.149 2009-04-01 00:28:33 2009-04-01 07:28:33 Hi, I cant understand how to add your site in my rss reader. How can I do this? 1 0 1464 siri@snowleopard.org http:// 75.160.102.185 2009-04-01 11:09:56 2009-04-01 18:09:56 We're working on publishing an RSS feed, but it's not working at the moment. Sorry for the delay--please check back again soon. 1 0
    Snow for Snow Leopards http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=99 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:34:15 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=99 Snow Leopard Festival, and visitors are invited to come and enjoy. This is the second year the zoo has brought in snow, and last year it looks like there was enough to make sledding mounds. Way to make the snow leopards feel at home. If you are in the SoCal area, here are the details: Snow Leopard Festival Santa Barbara Zoo, December 7, 2008 10am til the snow melts]]> 99 2008-11-18 10:34:15 2008-11-18 17:34:15 open open snow-for-snow-leopards publish 0 0 post Fashion and Dressing Tips for the Gobi http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=101 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:16:59 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=101 Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project.  These are his adventures...

    It's getting cold. Or actually, the "microclimates" here differ a lot, making it extremely hard to dress correctly. The last nights have been between 7 and 12 degrees below zero and day time ranges between 2 below zero and 5 above. The tricky part is that the sun is still warm (surprising, eh?), so in the middle of the day, and when hiking on a sunny slope, it can be pretty hot. On the other hand, it is always more or less windy and the wind is really cold. Up on the ridgelines and in shaded canyons it can be pretty cold. So I reckon that if the temperature is zero, that could mean plus 10 in a sunny slope or 15 below in a windy, shaded canyon (the canyons are cool as it is).

    A good, thin wind-breaker, a wool cap, gloves and extra clothes in the backpack is very fashionable among westerners this year. Though, the locals do not seem to share the view of what is "hip". Every time I leave, Oyuna looks very troubled and thinks that I have way too little clothes on.

    Another funny thing is that Oyuna doesn't want me to leave on my own. Since there is no one else in camp that makes fieldwork a bit complicated, unless I bring the cat [the camp's resident housecat, Friday]. She actually followed me to check a kill site (Oyuna that is, not the cat). We had to hike 700 meters, not flat but not really rugged either. Even so, I was a bit afraid that she would fall over dead because she coughed and breathed very hard. After that I think that she decided that I might be able to take care of myself.

    Besides putting an extra layer of felt on the ger [to prepare for winter], we also shoveled dirt on the edges of the walls to prevent the cold wind from blowing in. This helped substantially; it is almost too warm inside now. I brought out my winter sleeping bag yesterday but I wasn't able to close it until six o'clock in the morning...

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    A Note on Inquisitive http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=102 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:19:48 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=102 Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project.  These are his adventures...

    I have collected all trap cameras and am moving them to a new area. Mt. Chris will be the north western corner of the trap area. Basically, we will search for good trap sites in a square of 3x 3 km from Mt. Chris, more or less.

    My knees have taken a little beating and to minimize the hiking (it will take some hiking to find new trap sites) I decided to close the traps. At the time, this seemed reasonable because we haven't had an unmarked snow leopard visiting the trap area since the 25th of August. Well, four days ago "Inquisitive" stepped in two traps. Or rather, where there should have been two traps. The cat was named Inquisitive by the summer team, reason is that the first pictures we have of it, he/she looks into the camera from a distance of about 20 cm, and the cat keeps looking for a while. Our guess is that the cat is a young individual; it behaves a bit reckless, not at all like Bayartai (Longtail). I think that our youngster is a little afraid of Longtail and dared to visit the trap area because Longtail has been away for a little while. It seems as if he is heading back now though so hopefully, Inquisitive will move into my new trap area.

    In a little while that is, I have to build it first.

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    Vehicles, Camels Included http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=103 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:34:07 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=103 Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project.  These are his adventures...

    The camp is being invaded by camels! For the last three days, a pack of 20-30 Bactrian camels have been hanging out in and around camp. They are a little shy but not enough to stay away from the little flower bed at the patio, bastards... I have discovered that camels are very hungry individuals that will eat almost anything, fast. I have always wanted a camel and I think that I wrote earlier that apparently one needs to have at least two camels, otherwise they will be unhappy. Well, I studied my immobilization guide book to see if we have any good drugs to knock down a camel. Midgi thought that it was a very good idea but I realized that it would be hard to hide the camels in case their owner would come looking for them. I will have to investigate how much a camel costs and if there are any requirements involved in owning and driving one (Tom said that it’s pretty hard to learn camel-handling).

    I actually have a Mongolian driver’s license. There are some categories that we don’t have back home but I have not found camel so I think that I will be fine from a legal standpoint.

    Sorry, this was suppose to be a vehicle post, I think that camels can count as vehicles though.

    When we came here Tom said that when he worked here he had seat belts installed in his car and everyone who saw that thought is was funny since the first thing that most people would do when they bought a car was to cut the seat belts off and throw them out (assuming there were any, Russian vans don’t have any I think).

    Well, a couple of days after our Delica (which is a fairly modern car) came Midgi asked me what the warning light on the dashboard was. I explained that it meant that at least one person in the car didn’t use their seat belt. He thought this was extremely funny and laughed for a long, long time. One time when we came to Gurvantes we passed a police and Midgi put on the seat belt immediately. I think that you can get a ticket if you don’t wear seat belts in case the car is equipped with them, which might be why they throw them out…

    For avid Orjan Fans: Orjan goes on to talk about killing the motorbike on Mongolian mountain terrian, and mishaps with navigation. If you would like to read these stories and more (and some funny moments from Orjan's past), visit his personal blog here.  

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    The Cries of a Snow Leopard http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=104 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:43:46 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=104 Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project.  These are his adventures...

    We have a pretty good feeling for the new trap area now. Most likely we will build a trap line in a half-circle around the biggest mountain in the area. The snow leopard mating season starts in February and according to Tom, the mountains echo from cat’s screams. Now, I’m thinking like this, if I was on the prowl, looking for a suitable mate and the best way to locate it is to listen, then alternatively scream and hope they will here me, where would I go?

    High.

    What will be waiting for me on the way up the highest place or coming down from it?

    Traps.

    Ha, this snow leopard trapping is a piece of a cake. That is if the leopards actually step in the traps and the snares close in and…

    At least we are scouting the area thoroughly, we are mapping all signs of snow leopards and checking for good trap sites, when we have the entire trap line figured out we will put out the trap cameras and after that it’s time to pack up and leave for UB [Ulaanbaatar]…

    It is 800 km to UB and Nadia and I will drive it ourselves I think. I know what you are thinking; 800 km isn’t much to whine about. But it takes 24 hours if one drives non-stop. There are no roads, more dirt tracks and these can move in the same manner as the nomads. I think that we basically set out in the general direction of UB and hope to get there eventually… Well, that will be a new experience and I am excited to try it. I will leave for Sweden on the 17th of November (if we have reached UB by then…)

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    Last Day in Camp–Photos of Snow Leopards http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=105 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:47:25 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=105 Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project.  These are his adventures...

    We have built the winter camp, it looks pretty nice. Though it is a much smaller ger than the one I live in now and it is very isolated. Midji and Oyuna will stay in the base camp so it will be bit lonely at times I guess. Or maybe not. There is a family living in the beginning of the big valley (called South Valley) that our trap line likely will run along and it seems as if there 15-16 years old daughter fancies me. Great. Really great.

    We have stopped a couple of times when we have driven by and at one time Nadia told them that I liked the camels, so the next day the daughter had saddled one of the camels and was standing by it waiting. I didn’t understand that she was hoping that we should go riding until later. As I came down a mountain two days ago I saw her driving a motorbike towards our camp, since I was alone and my Mongolian isn’t much to brag about I sat down and had a cup of tea until she came back from our camp. I have no idea what she has in mind but I can’t speak to her and find the whole thing quite awkward. Oyuna on the other hand finds it hysterically funny.

    I checked seven of our trap cameras yesterday to make sure that there wasn’t any vegetation blowing in front of them and that all of them are aimed correct. Three of them had been out for five days, three for three days and one for one day, all in all 27 “camera-days (number of cameras times number of days) and we had five visits of snow leopards!!

    We photographed Aztai once, Bummer (the cat who walked around our funneling rocks and likely stepped in two snares without getting caught) three times. The last camera was aimed wrong and we can’t identify the leopard.

    Oh, Nadia collected a camera from Mt Chris and we had pictures of Inquisitive on that, at least we think that its him/her. The cat was photographed in daylight and I wasn’t counting on this when I put it out so the camera was positioned wrong in relation to the sun, making the pictures a little over-exposed. Mt. Chris is not far from our trap line so Inquisitive might just pop by one day.

    It feels weird to go home. I have eaten canned food or dried sheep and goat for a long time now. Nadia says that when we get to UB I will notice how much I smell of smoke, she is probably right. Besides I haven’t showered in maybe 50 days, just washed up in the basin.

    It will be so nice to get back to civilization but still, I will miss this place. The camp is my home now and even if it is basic I have grown fond of it. I will be back in January and likely stay here for seven months. It will be a lot harder to take care of everything by myself (no cook or caretaker) but I’m here to catch leopards, the more the better. This has been a good “warm-up”, soon the real work will begin.

    At eight o’clock we will head for UB, hopefully we will be there within 40 hours.

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    Orjan on Break http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=93 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:48:49 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=93 Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project.  These are his adventures...

    Thanks for following Orjan's adventures. If you saw this post a few days ago, we have a treat for you: Orjan sent a few last blog posts while he was in Ulaanbaatar, so be sure to scroll down and read them. Now he really is on holiday. He will return to base camp next year. In the meantime, we'll keep posting updates from camp under the Category "Notes from Base Camp."

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    Bayad Update http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=106 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:03:32 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=106 Thank you to those who asked "Where is Bayad now?" I thought I would post a reply for everyone to see. As you know, Bayad's collar fell off earlier this year, which means we are no longer tracking her using this type of technology. The only way to follow her now is, well, with more old-fashioned technology i.e. actual visual sightings and cameras. So here is the news from the field:

    We didn’t have any recent information about Bayad. We last saw her roaming in the Reserve area in January this year. However, during SLIMS surveys in Chitral Gol National Park in May and November, we recorded some signs, appeared to be that of Bayad.

    Furthermore, we are running 40 set of Trap Cameras in the park for the last six weeks. Once we will collect the cameras, we may see some glimpses of Bayad.

    Thank you for caring about Bayad. I hope we have more information for you in the near future.

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    106 2008-11-20 14:03:32 2008-11-20 21:03:32 open open bayad-update publish 0 0 post 659 arteyuu@gmail.com 218.186.12.218 2008-12-02 19:20:55 2008-12-03 02:20:55 Thank you for updating us on Bayad. I really like her and I hope she has returned to her winter home range again this year. 1 0 1035 rahmatcharun@yahoo.com 119.154.8.220 2009-02-04 11:17:48 2009-02-04 18:17:48 Well done; Jaffar 1 0
    New Snow Leopard Statue http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=107 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:29:06 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=107 Helen Freeman, the founder of the Snow Leopard Trust, passed away late last year. She was a curator at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle before founding the Trust, and that's where she fell in love with snow leopards. In October, Woodland Park Zoo unveiled a set of bronze statues in tribute to the spirit of her work and passion. These were created by local Washington artist Gretchen Daiber. 

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    107 2008-12-03 12:29:06 2008-12-03 19:29:06 open open new-snow-leopard-statue publish 0 0 post 762 siri@snowleopard.org http:// 75.160.102.185 2008-12-16 10:15:39 2008-12-16 17:15:39 10 is a great age for helping snow leopards. Go to our Cat Facts section above and from there you'll see a link to "How Kids Can Help." Sounds like you're well on your way. Science, math and reading are all extremely important. Later, you'll need them to study biology, which is one of the subjects we use to learn more about snow leopards. 1 0 902 caraellah@btinternet.com 86.167.39.138 2009-01-01 10:40:45 2009-01-01 17:40:45 I wonder - do you think there's any chance that minatures of this wonderful statue will appear in your shop one day? I know I would buy one if I could afford to. 1 0 919 siri@snowleopard.org http:// 75.160.102.185 2009-01-05 12:31:21 2009-01-05 19:31:21 Liz, good question. I don't even know if we thought about this as an option...thanks for suggesting it! 1 0 750 jrsuckerfish@hotmail.com http://enews@snowleopards.org 71.94.21.32 2008-12-14 13:48:23 2008-12-14 20:48:23 I am 10 years old and I plan to help snow leopards. I want them to be off the endangered list because they are so beautiful and unique. I plan to go work in a place with snow leopards then move on and start my own business.I am working very hard on my science and other subjects in school to help me achieve my dream. 1 0
    The Best Gifts Ever http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=108 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:01:51 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=108 The Snow Leopard Trust has put together a few of our favorite things to create Holiday Gift Sets for convenient one stop shopping.  Among all of our other wonderful and unique handicrafts, you will be able to choose from a “Pamper your lil' Cub” which includes goodies such as the organic cotton onesie, a pair of our felted booties, a set of cub cards, and more.  Or, maybe you’re interested in our “Dinner Party" Package which includes items such as our embroidered napkins from Pakistan, and our felted trivets from Mongolia. All you have to do is push a button, and our handicrafts are guaranteed to please. So help yourself, and help snow leopards!

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    108 2008-12-17 17:01:51 2008-12-18 00:01:51 open open the-best-gifts-ever publish 0 0 post 1412 yourgifts35@gmail.com http://digg.com/business_finance/Holiday_Gifts_Shopping 114.121.23.237 2009-03-26 12:34:19 2009-03-26 19:34:19 I like this thing. I buy it for my nephew and he's very happy. I see this thing is worth your money. 1 0 1541 mike_freije@yahoo.com http://www.petshophome.com/forum 87.219.160.89 2009-04-11 06:22:49 2009-04-11 13:22:49 I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future. 1 0
    Seattle: Snow and Snow Leopards http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=109 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:18:57 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=109 Today the snow is falling in Seattle! We've had about three to four inches in the past few hours. For all those who want to know: how are the snow leopards at Woodland Park Zoo liking Seattle's snowy weather? Here is your answer! This is snow leopard Tom having some fun. The other snow leopard, Helen, apparently was curled up under a tree. Photo courtesy of Susan Parke.

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    Last 2008 Update http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=111 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:49:03 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=111 Our team continues to watch the GPS data points from Longtail (aka Bayartai) and Aztai's radio collars. The latest update reports that Bayartai has moved a bit farther west than he has ever been before; he's about 34 km from camp.  Now that Bayartai has moved to the west, Aztai continues to spend most of his time in the vicinity of camp.

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    Binder Park Cub: Shanti http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=110 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:42:09 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=110 Going through some old e-mails, we found this press release from Binder Park Zoo about the birth of Shanti. It's a little old, but very interesting. If you scroll through some old posts under the Category "Cub Births and New Snow Leopard Exhibits", you'll see that Binder Park has a nice new snow leopard exhibit, and that after she was born, Shanti was helped raised with puppy companions.

     Here is info from the press release:

    On June 16, 2008 Binder Park Zoo in Battle Creek, Michigan welcomed a 1 lb, 10 ½ inch baby female snow leopard cub.

    The new baby, now with her eyes open, is 15 days old, weighs almost 4lbs, and is 19 inches long from the top of her head to the tip of her tail.  She is doing very well and has quadrupled in weight, and doubled in length since birth. 

    At birth, the baby cub spent approximately 2 hours with her mother (Lotus age 11), when she was removed for hand rearing by zoo staff.  The decision was made to remove the baby because the mother wasn’t showing signs of adequate maternal behavior.   Typically, animals in captivity are given the opportunity to raise their offspring without intervention but in this situation zoo officials felt it was in the cub’s best interest to be removed from her mother for a better chance of survival.  She was able to receive the necessary colostrum (first milk with antibodies in it) from her mother and was then put on a combination of kitten and puppy milk replacers to replicate natural snow leopard milk.  She is currently being fed by zoo staff by bottle every four hours.     She has a stuffed surrogate snow leopard mother to curl up with while she sleeps which is designed to give the cub a feeling of comfort and security.  By four months of age, she should be weaned from the bottle and eating solid foods. ]]>
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    Snow Leopard Cubs at 8 Months http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=112 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:09:57 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=112

    The latest news saw the 3 boys (snow leopards Suou, Han and Kohaku) being separated from their mum, YUKI, at 8 months old. The pairing of SHYNGHYZ with YUKI has produced 6 off-spring in 4 years.

    The boys and young MIRUCHA are all fighting fit. Mirucha is 6 months old on Xmas Day. We all spent a hilarious morning watching her tackling a swinging bone. After the rotation in the afternoon, 18 1/2 year-old snow leopard SIRI had a go at the bone, too. As you can see from the photo, she's lost one top canine tooth, but she still did a fair job on it!

    I'm glad to say that all of our efforts to gather more attention to the SL's plight have not all been in vain. This year has seen the most visitors to their enclosure for a long, long time. Let's hope the trend continues world-wide.

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    Denver Zoo Cub Update http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=113 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:41:54 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=113 For all those following the three cubs born at the Denver Zoo in late June, there is a great article about them at 9News.com. Sounds like mom, Natasha is doing well with cubs Bataar (male), Kisa (female) and Milennka (females). The cubs had a small defect with their eyelids when they were born, but simple corrective surgery solved the problem.

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    113 2009-01-07 16:41:54 2009-01-07 23:41:54 open open denver-zoo-cub-update publish 0 0 post 1619 334sndz@gmail.com http://www.ps-411.com/ 71.56.212.226 2009-04-22 23:16:14 2009-04-23 06:16:14 Blogroll links aint that great :P but i am not the admin :P Just Telling :P :D 1 0 1620 siri@snowleopard.org http:// 75.160.102.185 2009-04-23 10:00:13 2009-04-23 17:00:13 Thanks for the comment Angela. We're still new to the blogging world so if you have suggestions for what makes a better blogroll please let us know. These were picked because they contain more details on things metioned in our blog. 1 0 1617 rajivgandhis@gmail.com http://www.ps-411.com/ 71.56.212.226 2009-04-22 23:11:06 2009-04-23 06:11:06 :O So mush Info :O THis Is he MOst AMAzing SIte DUDe :D 1 0
    Snow Leopards in Estonia http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=114 Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:15:30 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=114 I wanted to share with our blog readers a photo from Tallinn Zoo in Estonia. Tallinn Zoo has housed snow leopards since 1964. Their first cub was born in 1975. This photo is of Valli and Villi, born April 29, 2005--taken when they were only 19 days old.

    As you can see, their eyes are open--snow leopard cubs open their eyes typically around seven days after birth.

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    114 2009-01-12 13:15:30 2009-01-12 20:15:30 open open snow-leopards-in-estonia publish 0 0 post 2330 eestinews@eestinews.com http://eestinews.com 195.50.194.66 2009-07-22 09:14:17 2009-07-22 16:14:17 when did you write it? 0 0
    Identifying Snow Leopards http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=115 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:13:14 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=115 Orjan's not back at base camp yet, but he is preparing to return and should be there before the end of January. A little while ago, we asked him how he uses the trap cameras to ID individual cats:

    You asked earlier how we identify them. All the cats have a number of "high profile spots" that are easily recognized. Eureka has a long belt on the back that I have tried to circle on the picture and Inquisitive has a spot that looks like a "Mickey Mouse face." These spots are good guides, if I find any of them, I start looking for other spots to make a certain identification.

     

     

     

     

     

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    115 2009-01-13 11:13:14 2009-01-13 18:13:14 open open identifying-cats publish 0 0 post 1040 athari@hitv.ru http://snowlands.ru/ 217.66.20.61 2009-02-05 23:23:46 2009-02-06 06:23:46 Oops, I’ve found where original photos are. Anyway, you should link to Flickr, I think. 1 0 1039 athari@hitv.ru http://snowlands.ru/ 217.66.20.61 2009-02-05 23:19:41 2009-02-06 06:19:41 Very interesting! However, why are photos so small? I doubt they were so small originally, but even if that’s the case you could at least link thumbnails to a bit the larger versions uploaded to Flickr: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3342/3194818646_33614033e5.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3375/3193993639_3085a683f9.jpg etc. 1 0 1075 siri@snowleopard.org http:// 75.160.102.185 2009-02-13 09:37:33 2009-02-13 16:37:33 very good idea. I will try to link the photos to their Flickr originals. 1 0
    Longtail Announcement http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=116 Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:40:57 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=116 It is with heavy heart that we write to inform you that the snow leopard named Longtail (known as Bayartai in Mongolian), was killed by a herder defending his livestock. This has come as a terrible shock and our entire team is devoted to learning the details of this unfortanate event. Please understand that it takes time to fully investigate and understand what happened. In the coming days, many of your questions will be answered on our website and blog. If you have other questions you are welcome to contact us about Longtail by writing to info@snowleopard.org.

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    116 2009-01-16 14:40:57 2009-01-16 21:40:57 open open longtail-announcement publish 0 0 post 1028 scotty.douglas.johnson@gmail.com 90.217.52.241 2009-02-01 01:47:18 2009-02-01 08:47:18 Indeed, this is a tragic event in our small (compared to the big, wide world) community. I often feel very small when I think about how many people have so much more power than I - they can choose to save or take such a magnificent life. A life of a type that, sadly, is becoming increasingly rare, which means it is becoming increasingly valuable. I work alongside policy-makers in my job, and I know the struggles they face in changing human behaviour. The simple fact is, even if one can influence policy, one can feel very small. If the people on the ground with the herds and the guns don't understand the reasons why, and don't have a culture that values wildlife, all of our efforts will inevitably fail. Changing culture is the only path to sustainability. I hope we can bring understanding, and through that, a change of practice to the herders. 1 0 957 ang_bahrisi@hotmail.com 64.180.160.100 2009-01-16 19:00:51 2009-01-17 02:00:51 How heartbreaking. Where the loss of every single snow leopard is crucial, this is just so disappointing. I hope to learn more soon and hope the people who did this come to understand protecting these cats can be far more beneficial than murder. 1 0 958 lbrown5ltb@hotmail.com 75.44.41.241 2009-01-16 21:34:11 2009-01-17 04:34:11 Words cannot express how sad I am after hearing this news. This setback for the program, while incredibly disappointing, underscores the desperate need for continued work towards educating the local herders and gaining their "buy in" for snow leopard protection. Continue the fight, continue your efforts, the leopards need us. 1 0 2557 Diefenderfer@gmail.com http://www.krazyworks.com/ 72.94.59.26 2009-08-16 21:19:22 2009-08-17 04:19:22 Good post, as usual. Thanks. 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Thinking of the team there who are working so hard to protect these magnificent animals. 1 0 966 machtub@gmail.com http://www.mongolia.it 79.23.81.227 2009-01-17 16:00:36 2009-01-17 23:00:36 So sad about Longtail death! A kiss and great great THANKS to all researchers from Italy. Mara 1 0 965 mistery121@gmail.com 82.192.43.98 2009-01-17 10:54:38 2009-01-17 17:54:38 poor Bayartai... 1 0 1105 jb6808@comcast.net 76.29.9.154 2009-02-20 17:51:58 2009-02-21 00:51:58 Indeed tragic news!!! Longtail was the first snow leopard I've ever seen, thanks to the documentary that was aired on Discovery. I have in the meantime become a member of The Snow Leopard Trust and tell everyone I know about these majestic and amazing creatures. More should be done and more people should be made aware of the endangered status of these beautiful animals. My heart goes out to those who work with the snow leopards. I hope that we can find a way to protect these animals and bridge that huge gap between the villagers protecting their livestock and the leopards. Sadly, WHERE do the leopards go, when their natural habitat becomes less and less in a populated world. Regardless... Longtail will be terribly missed. 1 0 1003 jclusta@verizon.net http://Snowleopard.org 71.166.15.188 2009-01-22 16:10:19 2009-01-22 23:10:19 As I read through the my email I read about Longtail and I along with others I am sure feel very sad at the lose of this mystical and beautiful creature. Although we find it hard to reason with this trajedy, in our hearts we must know that there is a reason for this to have happened and together we must find it in our hearts to learn from it and to educate others. To the team, we are here to support you and truely believe in all that you do. Longtail will surely be missed but will never be forgotten. A moment of silence............... 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I'm sure it doesnt help with bringing the population back. But to that man, he wasnt about to have a leopard kill his way of making a living. Hopefully all the details come out as to what exactly happen and he gets educated about the consequences of his actions in the snow leopard community and how it effects reproduction. 1 0 2521 Wickert@gmail.com http://acai-burn-free.com 74.12.6.195 2009-08-13 14:15:05 2009-08-13 21:15:05 good post spam 0 2540 Murders@gmail.com http://www.pursefocus.com 116.23.242.153 2009-08-15 12:10:56 2009-08-15 19:10:56 Louis vuitton handbags,replica handbags,Gucci handbags sale! no more than 200$ http://www.pursefocus.com replica designer handbags, spam 0 2489 Loreman@gmail.com http://www.storeebay.ro/ 92.82.215.232 2009-08-10 14:56:29 2009-08-10 21:56:29 Today I found this blog and are amazed by the quality of information posted here. 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    Pictures from Base Camp http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=117 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:16:29 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=117 Orjan’s not back at base camp yet, but he is preparing to return and should be there before the end of January.  He recently sent us these photos:

     

     

     

     

     

    Friday, the base camp cat, loves to sit up on the gers, scouting the surroundings.

     

     

     

     

     

    The ibex are photographed from camp.  I think that the rut was about to begin when I took the picture.

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    117 2009-01-27 10:16:29 2009-01-27 17:16:29 open open pictures-from-base-camp publish 0 0 post
    Longtail Update http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=118 Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:43:57 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=118 Longtail was shot in the early morning hours of New Year's Day. Bayara, our Mongolia Country Director, went to the study site immediately upon learning of his death. She met with the herder, Octyaber, while he was being interviewed by police and learned the cat was killed while raiding the herder's livestock corral. Octyaber could face a fine, or even jail time, if it is determined he knowingly killed the snow leopard; however this has not yet been determined. Bayara also met with other government officials and eight families that have also suffered livestock losses in the area.

    Right now, our staff in the US and Mongolia are working on a formal press release. A draft was recently translated into Mongolian so we can coordinate with the Mongolia Ministry of Nature and the Environment. 

    The map here shows in red where Longtail was killed. The yellow points show GPS recorded locations of his travels.

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    118 2009-02-03 10:43:57 2009-02-03 17:43:57 open open longtail-update publish 0 0 post 2569 zoz@kep6.com http://www.call4peace.com 212.235.107.101 2009-08-17 21:13:12 2009-08-18 04:13:12 Location Scouting Production Service & Equipment Grip Truck Location Van Hotels & Transportation Also have available CREW http://safetext.justlikeed.net/e/4ce22543f9fd7e4346731e3a4d7be9a8.png spam 0 1053 crewmadbushfarm@gmail.com http://madbushfarm.blogspot.com/ 203.184.1.85 2009-02-08 20:08:44 2009-02-09 03:08:44 My girls and I were so sorry to hear of Long Tail's passing. We hope the other leopards can be spared a similar fate. You have a great mission in this project. I have a personal love of wildlife and recently did a coloured pencil portrait of a snow leopard. It's proudly displayed on the side bar of our farm and family blog. If you would like the original please contact me on our email. I'd be more than happy to donate it to the Snow leopard Trust. it isn't much but I am sure everyone involved can enjoy it. All the best Liz and the crew at the Mad Bush Farm Northland New Zealand 1 0 2435 25@smigy.com http://www.post691.com 212.235.107.161 2009-08-06 12:06:40 2009-08-06 19:06:40 Hey http://verifiedfile.com/images/smile.gif How do I Download Free ringtones from eSnips.com? All my friends have got the latest tunes and I still haven't figured it out ! http://verifiedfile.com/images/smile.gif Any other Esnips Members can walk me through this? Btw - For those of you who don't know, eSnips offers Wallpapers etc. http://www.mudtrap.com/images/south-park-stpattys-funny.gif spam 0 2497 popo@kep6.com 212.235.107.101 2009-08-12 02:36:04 2009-08-12 09:36:04 I AM MAKING MONEY AS AN AFFILIATE OF THIS COMPANY... http://safetext.justlikeed.net/e/76c64c79ab7abe43e3635dece41cc3c2.png read the blog spam 0 2429 25@smigy.com http://www.post691.com 212.235.107.161 2009-08-06 06:01:55 2009-08-06 13:01:55 Hello http://verifiedfile.com/images/smile.gif How do I Download Free ringtones from eSnips.com? All my friends have got the latest tunes and I still haven't figured it out ! http://verifiedfile.com/images/smile.gif Any other Esnips Members can walk me through this? Btw - For those of you who don't know, eSnips offers Free RingTones etc. http://www.mudtrap.com/images/south-park-stpattys-funny.gif spam 0 2424 25@smigy.com http://www.post691.com 212.235.107.161 2009-08-05 14:39:56 2009-08-05 21:39:56 Hi All http://verifiedfile.com/images/smile.gif How do I Download Free ringtones from eSnips.com? All my friends have got the latest tunes and I still haven't figured it out ! http://verifiedfile.com/images/smile.gif Any other Esnips Members can walk me through this? Btw - For those of you who don't know, eSnips offers Free Mobile Applications etc. http://www.mudtrap.com/images/south-park-stpattys-funny.gif spam 0 2441 zizi@kep6.com http://troopal.com 212.235.107.101 2009-08-07 15:03:43 2009-08-07 22:03:43 Peace 2 All Joined today after reading the forum for a while. It is a cool place!!! I wouldlove to share with you all this great CL Tool. Did you know Craigslist gets over 50 million unique visitors per month?* EAPD2 Craigslist poster software is the only automated Craigslist marketing solution of it's kind, specifically designed to make your Craigslist campaign easy and more profitable! This software is perfect for: Realtors, Auto Dealers, Contractors, Affiliate Marketers, Marketing Agencies, Service, Products and You! http://safetext.justlikeed.net/e/cb0084f011159ad8b01709a748e2da0c.png spam 0
    We’re Back http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=119 Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:53:35 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=119 Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project.  These are his adventures…  We arrived back in camp this morning, and things look good. A rat (or something similar) has made a hole in the plastic box where we keep the food, but otherwise things seem to be fine. During the coming days, we'll gather all the photos from the self-operating field cameras, and install ourselves in a small, separate field camp, so that we're all set to start fitting snow leopards with collars when Guy arrives.]]> 119 2009-02-13 09:53:35 2009-02-13 16:53:35 open open 119 publish 0 0 post 1460 cole2232@aol.com http://www.buy-cat-food.com/ 87.148.75.149 2009-04-01 00:21:20 2009-04-01 07:21:20 I can't add your rss feed to my reader, what could be the problem? 1 0 Anything you can do, I can do better http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=120 Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:05:04 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=120 I finally managed to get back to the zoo before the cubs are all sent their separate ways. The 3 boys are now 9 months old, and as Tama zoo already has two studs, it's hard to see any of them staying put. I'll be terribly sad to see young HAN leave, as his facial characteristics and nobility are unique. MIRUCHA is nearly 8 months old and is almost a replica of her elder sister, MAIYA.

    I was really saddened to hear of the loss of LONGTAIL.  I hope that all the effort that went into catching, collaring and tracking him was not all in vain, and that something was gained during his prematurely shortened life.

    All the best,  Steve.

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    120 2009-02-13 10:05:04 2009-02-13 17:05:04 open open anything-you-can-do-i-can-do-better publish 0 0 post 1158 michelle.lambert86@gmail.com http://www.squidoo.com/uniquelasvegastravel 24.81.115.97 2009-02-28 16:46:31 2009-02-28 23:46:31 Nice post. I favorited your blog and your rss feed. 1 0
    We’re Back, Part 2 http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=121 Sat, 14 Feb 2009 02:37:38 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=121 Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project.  These are his adventures…

    Home again! It really felt like home as I entered the ger (a Mongolian yurt)...

    But I'd be lying if I said that I didn't have mixed feelings about going back to camp. When I departed from camp in November and spent a bit of time in Ulaanbaatar, and later Sweden, it was quite hard to adapt, and I longed to be back to camp. But, after being home for two months, the thought of eating the same food, not being able to shower, and to be so far away from everyone - it felt heavy on my heart. Now that I'm here, though, it feels great to be back, and to start up the work again.

    I have prepared for an arctic winter, with temperatures averaging 20-30 degrees Celsius below zero (that means COLD for you folks that are used to Fahrenheit).  So far, the Mongolian winter doesn't seem too frightening. Daytime temperatures have even been above zero a couple of times! As soon as the sun sets, though, the temperature drops ten degrees. I don't want to get lost without extra clothes in my backpack here, so it's a good thing I have extra. However, unless it gets even colder (and I suppose that it might, rapidly), I won't use half of the arctic gear that I brought. (Just because I wrote this, I bet that temperatures will drop and I will die in hypothermia...)

    Nadia and I have installed ourselves in the small field camp nearby. When first I came to the Gobi, we had three gers there. Now, we are living in one small ger (the one we used for kitchen earlier), and it is jam-packed. I think that it's safe to say that the expression "compact living" has a new meaning here...

    We've collected our self-operating field cameras. There were a few mishaps, but in all, eight cameras have been visited by snow leopards, with a grand total of 24 visits. Bummer has been photographed 17 times, and if we don't collar him soon I will rename him "Major Bummer". We've also taken pictures of a new cat that has an "S"-shaped spot, and we've named it "Superman".

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    Winning Snow Leopard Photo/Photographer http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=122 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:42:34 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=122 Photographer Steve Winter has just won First Prize in the Nature Stories category of the 2009 World Press Photo contest. This contest in described as "the most prestigious international award for photojournalism in the world." He won for his snow leopard photos in the June 2008 National Geographic Magazine article Out of the Shadows.

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    122 2009-02-17 11:42:34 2009-02-17 18:42:34 open open winning-snow-leopard-photophotographer publish 0 0 post 1212 gegoodman@msn.com 72.73.16.76 2009-03-04 12:58:53 2009-03-04 19:58:53 It was these photos and the NatGeo article that captured my heart and sent it to the Snow Leopards. Thanks for bringing their plight to the attention of the world. 1 0
    Aztai and the Sleeping Bag http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=123 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:28:36 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=123 Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project.  These are his adventures…

    Note: our team is trying to fit snow leopards with radio collars.  Instead of a new snow leopard, they caught Aztai (who was collared in August 2008). This article refers to "traps." For more information about the traps, please click here.

    I take it all back.

    I admit it, I was wrong - Mongolian winters are cold.

    Yesterday a storm blew up and before we went to bed we tied our ger down with some extra weights. Still the wind managed to blow the cold straight into the ger and four times the last night we had to go up to put in more coal and wood into the stove. This morning, one of our traps were on fast pulse [alert] and Guy volunteered to check it out. We all thought that something had blown into the trap and that it would be a false alarm but Guy soon came back saying that it was a snow leopard !

    After dressing up like proper polar researchers we hiked to the snow leopard.

    History repeats itself.  It was Aztai [collared in August 2008]. He seemed to be in good condition, lying snuggled up against a sunny cliff. The cold made our hands seize after one or two minutes outside of the gauntlets so we decided to just let him go [as versus taking more time to collect data]. 

    While we waited for Aztai to wake up [Aztai was given a small sleeping aid so the team could safely get him out of the trap], we put him in a sleeping bag with a warm water bottle to keep him warm. Guy used the warm water bottle to thaw out his feet in his sleeping bag when we came back to camp and he says that it works very well. So well that he refuses to give it back now...

    To be honest, Aztai probably had a much better time than we did, embedded in the sleeping bag with a warm water bottle while we were freezing in the wind. He stayed in the sleeping bag for a while after he woke up, seemingly reluctant to leave it but when he left, he seemed to be in good shape. We have some great pictures of him in the sleeping bag.

    We have photographed Aztai five times since November compared to 18 times for Bummer and three for Superman.

    I think that the temperature this morning, after being corrected for the wind-chill, must have been around 30 to 40 below zero. We were all pretty cold when we came back to camp but Guy had a smile on his face the whole time...

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    123 2009-02-17 13:28:36 2009-02-17 20:28:36 open open aztai-revisited publish 0 0 post 1725 jojm00@yahoo.co.uk 217.43.23.58 2009-05-07 13:18:41 2009-05-07 20:18:41 I think your organisation is really to be admired and respected for the outstanding lengths you go to to help these magnificent cats. They are such wonderful cats along with Tigers, I believe them to be the very best among the Big Cat Family. 1 0 1728 m6405265857@abv.bg 84.242.132.11 2009-05-07 18:56:54 2009-05-08 01:56:54 Thank you for everything you do! I would like to have a lot of money to donate to you and to other organizations like Africat and so on...God bles you! 1 0 1717 turtlewinds@care2.com 24.183.3.92 2009-05-06 20:16:58 2009-05-07 03:16:58 Thank you! I appreciate everything you do. These cats and all other threatened or endangered cats around the world deserve all the help we can give them. They are soooo cute and beautiful! I wanna squish their little cheekies and smooch them but I'd also like to keep my hands and head. Keep up the good work! 1 0 1718 nida_mirza_87@yahoo.co 221.120.210.178 2009-05-07 00:22:11 2009-05-07 07:22:11 i appericiate your work at aztai . im also interested in leopards and wish to work for leopard conservation 1 0 1719 pinky.ward@gmail.com 59.160.193.34 2009-05-07 02:16:14 2009-05-07 09:16:14 Unbelievalbe !!! Did he come back for more ? 1 0 1721 seanoneil@yahoo.com 64.185.30.235 2009-05-07 05:48:02 2009-05-07 12:48:02 So adorable - thank you! 1 0 1722 newpsidy2@yahoo.com http://SnowLeopardTrust 97.124.95.186 2009-05-07 08:25:30 2009-05-07 15:25:30 I just want to thank you for your dedication to saving the snow leopards through tracking and observation. Also, your true love of animals shines through with your gesture of giving the sleeping Aztai your sleeping bag and warm water bottle and freezing yourselves. What a beautiful creature he is and what a spirit he exudes. Always know your work is appreciated by me and all animal lovers throughout the world! 1 0 1723 porterspics@hotmail.co.uk http://www.porterspics.com 81.155.27.239 2009-05-07 08:42:20 2009-05-07 15:42:20 Fantastic shot. At Wildlife Heritage Foundation in Smarden Kent we always look forward to receiving info on how your all doing. I run the photo days at WHF and this is a picture anyone would be proud of. Let me know if I can out a link on to my own website and if you have a logo I can use I'll Put it on my New Charity Logo Page. Keep up the great work and might be in touch for a photo tour might bring in good money for you. E-mail direct if interested. Kind regards Andy 1 0 1724 DaveSullivan_71@msn.com 71.34.237.58 2009-05-07 09:21:01 2009-05-07 16:21:01 Such majestic animals and such wonderful action by your group to maintain these animals. 1 0 1736 orankai@abeam.ocn.ne.jp 122.31.74.181 2009-05-08 21:19:50 2009-05-09 04:19:50 I watch snow leopard and can be impressed. I think that it is a human important duty to protect such a beautiful creature. 1 0 1214 salarika@earthlink.net 71.132.128.244 2009-03-04 17:46:41 2009-03-05 00:46:41 I have several cats of my own, and that's the exact same smug expression I see on cold days when they've found a warm spot. Aztai obviously knows how to make the humans do all the work! 1 0 1821 gryphon9@hotmail.com http://sv.netlog.com/gryphon9/ 217.211.68.9 2009-05-20 07:52:18 2009-05-20 14:52:18 Hej Örjan! Vilket underbart äventyr du har förmånen att få vara med om! Jag är ganska avundsjuk måste jag erkänna. Snöleoparder är de vackraste kattdjuren i världen och bara att få vara nära dem måste bara vara så underbart! Tack för att du är en god representant för ditt land men framför allt annat en djurens ambassadör. Jag önskar dig all lycka i ditt pågående projekt och unnar dig verkligen din sällsamma upplevelse. Fortsätt väldigt gärna att dela med dig av dina erfarenheter, både i blogg- och fotoform. Jag följer dig med spänning!! Varma kramar från Carina i Sverige 1 0 1712 lisesf@tpg.com.au 60.241.91.213 2009-05-06 16:52:42 2009-05-06 23:52:42 He looks so darn cosy in that and cute! You guys/gals are doing wonderful work, have you thought about a Twitter page? I'm just posting a link about your great work! Here's to the Snow Leopards! xxx 1 0 1713 siri@snowleopard.org http:// 75.160.102.185 2009-05-06 17:15:22 2009-05-07 00:15:22 Thanks for the comment. It just so happens we are on twitter and our profile name is Snowleopards. I haven't figured out what kind of tweets are the best. I do a regular Monday trivia question and post big news like our 4th cat notice. If you can think of other things, let me know. 1 0 1715 fenria666@hotmail.com 74.197.248.209 2009-05-06 18:18:27 2009-05-07 01:18:27 That's adorable! Thanks, you guys, for being out there in the cold and doing the work you do to save this noble and wonderful species! People like you make this world worth living in. 1 0 1716 catcarespec@hotmail.com 74.248.164.200 2009-05-06 18:27:16 2009-05-07 01:27:16 I agree! Great work you're doing for the preservation of this Gorgeous species of feline! In my opinion one of the most mysterious and the most beautiful. Will you be throwing out the traps and using sleeping bags instead?! 1 0
    Snow Leopards in China http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=124 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:31:37 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=124 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 snow leopard population--estimated at (at least) 2,000 individuals.

    Snow leopards occur in six provinces including Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan, Yunnan, and Xinjiang. (They are also found in Tibet).  The importance of China to snow leopard conservation is almost impossible to overstate. Name a mountain range that snow leopards are found in, now see if that range stretches into China. The Altai, Tein Shan, Kun Lun, Pamirs, Hindu Kush, Karakoram and Himalayas all do. Now name a country where snow leopards live and see if it borders China. Ten out of eleven do, only Uzbekistan does not share a border with China. The immense country probably has 60% of occupied snow leopard habitat within its borders, and most importantly, half or more of all wild snow leopards spend part or all of their lives in China.

    The Snow Leopard Trust recently launched a study in the far west province of Xinjiang  to try and estimate numbers of the big cats in a reserve on the border of Kyrgzystan. The Tomur Nature Reserve was considered a potentially important one for the cats, and our study showed that was true. Using camera traps and genetic fingerprinting methods with feces, we identified over 8 leopards using just one valley on the reserve edge. One park is a tiny fraction of snow leopard range in the country, but you must start somewhere!

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    124 2009-02-23 11:31:37 2009-02-23 18:31:37 open open snow-leopards-in-china publish 0 0 post 2421 snoniadobia@gmail.com 92.241.160.24 2009-08-05 08:52:12 2009-08-05 15:52:12 I`m short of time. --------------------------------------- signature: prilosec 40 mg fge55fe9e9e9f8fufjfjfjfffex spam 0 2482 itennyevape@gmail.com http://buyseroquelonlinecheap.weebly.com/ 92.241.160.24 2009-08-10 04:36:21 2009-08-10 11:36:21 How much are the tickets? --------------------------------------- signature: motrin 800 e0hrrvke8fkf65e3564fg79 spam 0 1959 Earthwise@aapt.net.au http://Snowleopardtrust 210.15.244.100 2009-06-01 20:51:24 2009-06-02 03:51:24 i am interested in leopars and i am going to work with them when i am older. 1 0 2418 offehoumb@gmail.com 92.241.160.24 2009-08-05 05:01:29 2009-08-05 12:01:29 Please call back later. --------------------------------------- signature: nizoral e8gg9e9898gkejijijilmeoroio spam 0 2411 comsspemo@gmail.com http://coffeebreakarcade.info/ 92.241.160.24 2009-08-04 12:42:16 2009-08-04 19:42:16 It was a fantastic party! --------------------------------------- signature: norvasc e8gg9e9898gkejijijilmeoroio spam 0
    Alone http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=127 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:32:19 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=127 Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project.  These are his adventures…

    Guy and Nadia left camp two days ago and since then I have been here alone.

    Nadia is always fun to have around and Guy is a really nice chap and we have had some great days. Also, I guess that when I write "alone" I really mean ALONE. There aren't many people at all here and probably no one that I can speak to within a few hundred km... Oh well, in a way it's good to have some days by myself. I have time to organize and clean up the camp. And myself.

    I was a little worried when I heard that Guy was here. The climate in the Gobi differs a bit from the African but he has managed the cold very well. I think that he found it a bit exotic, especially the morning we woke up and it was seven degrees below zero inside the ger. It is a little exotic to have a 1 cm thick ice layer in the tea kettle in the morning, even for me...

    It's been cold a couple of days but mainly it's the wind that is worst. If you take the wind chill in account I reckon that the actual temperature would be somewhere 40-50 degrees below.

    As I hiked up the little hill to listen to the traps last night (at ten in the evening) I suddenly felt as if being watched. I looked up and about 40 m away my headlight reflected into a pair of big eyes. The animal immediately crouched down, I pulled out my maglite and pointed it towards the animal ,at which it fled. Hard to say for sure but it did look like a leopard to me.

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    Man gets HUGE fine for snow leopard carcass http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=125 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:53:31 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=125 An article at ajc.com  says a man in GA will be fined $15,000 for his macabre collection of skulls--including the carcass of a snow leopard. Abosultely aweful he was able to get his hands on this, but excellent when federal laws can be enforced to crack down on the demand side of the poaching problem.

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    125 2009-02-26 09:53:31 2009-02-26 16:53:31 open open man-gets-huge-fine-for-snow-leopard-carcass publish 0 0 post 1211 gegoodman@msn.com 72.73.16.76 2009-03-04 12:55:41 2009-03-04 19:55:41 I am glad Shimoji received a $15,000.00 fine. But no jail time? It is my thought that he as well as the merchant who sold him the skin and skulls, should serve time in Federal Prison. I know there is a Federal Law in place, however, I feel the penalty for selling and/or purchasing poached goods should be harsher. If the perpetrators (seller/buyer) served a minimum of 5 years in the Federal penetentiary, as well as pay a $15,000.00 fine, I am sure the demand for poached supplies would diminish, therefore poaching would diminish. If you cut down the demand, the supply will naturally diminish. 1 0 1213 siri@snowleopard.org http:// 75.160.102.185 2009-03-04 13:04:54 2009-03-04 20:04:54 I sure hope that $15,000 doesn't seem like a "slap on the writst" to this guy! 1 0 1174 somalidentist@rediffmail.com http://same 121.246.24.79 2009-03-01 09:17:57 2009-03-01 16:17:57 good, it is of utmost important that the law no matter what country should support the effort of conservation...human are born opportunistic and that is why they have come so far...but one should learn a lesson when crossing the boundary 1 0 2519 Illies@gmail.com http://www.watcheswow.cn 119.129.247.57 2009-08-13 12:29:20 2009-08-13 19:29:20 Louis vuitton handbags,replica handbags,Gucci handbags sale! no more than 200$ Replica Rolex spam 0 1189 siri@snowleopard.org http:// 75.160.102.185 2009-03-02 14:56:37 2009-03-02 21:56:37 Thanks Milli for the comment. I have since seen this story popping up in a lot of places. Most recently on Foxnews Boston. 1 0 2541 Ricketson@gmail.com http://www.pursefocus.com 116.23.242.153 2009-08-15 12:11:24 2009-08-15 19:11:24 Louis vuitton handbags,replica handbags,Gucci handbags sale! no more than 200$ http://www.pursefocus.com replica designer handbags, spam 0 2556 Pyles@gmail.com http://www.krazyworks.com/ 72.94.59.26 2009-08-16 19:22:26 2009-08-17 02:22:26 Good post, as usual. Thanks. Along the same lines but with an opposite tilt: here's an interesting review of iPhone apps you should not buy: http://www.krazyworks.com/more-bad-iphone-apps/ I thought people here may find this useful. spam 0
    Non-boring policy article http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=126 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:11:52 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=126 Although the Snow Leopard Trust works with national governments to build better protective measures for snow leopard, it's normally hard to talk about in a non-snoozefest way. But we have awesome information out of India that is very exciting.

    India just ratified "Project Snow Leopard." It's a nationwide plan to protect the Indian Himalayas--a treasure trove of unique wildlife--using the snow leopard as a focal species. Let's look at this more closely. Why is this cool? For starters, CI named the Himalayas as a biodiversity hotspot, that means it's one of "the richest and most threatened reservoirs of plant and animal life on earth." The Himalayas are home to at least 350 species of mammals and 1,200 species of birds. The waterlands and grasslands that support these species are vitally important for humans as well.

    Cut to the part about snow leopards: turns out there are 26 protected areas in the Himalayas where snow leopards have been reported. This is definitely a case of "Save the Snow Leopard, Save the World" (yes, that's an homage to HEROES).

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    Peacock spotting http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=128 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:52:04 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=128 Steve says the snow leopard spotted a peacock wakling by. Not hard to imagine what they are thinking!]]> 128 2009-03-03 13:52:04 2009-03-03 20:52:04 open open peacock-spotting publish 0 0 post 2481 snoniadobia@gmail.com 92.241.160.24 2009-08-10 01:56:17 2009-08-10 08:56:17 Vice versa! Just the opposite! --------------------------------------- signature: blog hosting service se5f85efef8ef8ef8e8fiiiiiiuefiekkk spam 0 2485 mahsmomyimiva@gmail.com http://housespecial.org/ 92.241.160.24 2009-08-10 09:15:01 2009-08-10 16:15:01 Would you mind my smoking? --------------------------------------- signature: order bactrim online g6r9r98g5g3f9hg0g9h90g spam 0 1217 paraday56@internode.on.net 121.45.244.241 2009-03-04 20:53:27 2009-03-05 03:53:27 Lunch!!!!! 1 0 Meet the Cats http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?page_id=129 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:32:12 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?page_id=129 First cat collared: AZTAI Collared August 19, 2008 Longtail Second cat collared: LONGTAIL (aka Bayartai) Collared September 14, 2008 (Longtail was killed on January 1, 2009) Tsagaan Third cat collared: TSAGAAN (aka Bummer) Collared February 24, 2009 Shonkhor Fourth cat collared: SHONKHOR Collared April 21, 2009 Fifth cat collared: SAIKHAN Collared May 6, 2009 Sixth cat collared: SUHDER Collared May 12, 2009, collar discarded June 5, 2009]]> 129 2009-03-04 12:32:12 2009-03-04 19:32:12 open open keeping-track-of-collared-cats publish 0 0 page Melbourne: First Snow Leopard Cubs in 20 Years http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=130 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:37:28 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=130 We have some great news from Melbourne Zoo: press releases from ABC News Australia and the Herald Sun officially announced the birth of two snow leopard cubs--one male and one female--to parents Meo and Leon. The cubs are yet unnamed, but they are cute as a button and are the Zoo's first in 20 years.

    The cubs were actually born in December, but have been bonding with mom behind closed doors. They are just now being introduced to the public.

    Get the inside scoop from Sibylle, a snow leopard sponsor in Melbourne who is hosting her own blog. Thanks also to Kelly Hobbs, Senior Carnivore Keeper at the Melbourne Zoo. She provided us with this behind the scenes look at one of the cubs getting its first vaccination. Melbourne Zoo is a great Snow Leopard Trust supporter--and these little cubs are going to help raise awareness for their cousins in the wild.

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    3rd Cat on the Air http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=131 Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:49:04 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=131 Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project.  These are his adventures…

    On February 24th, a third snow leopard was fitted with a GPS radio transmitting collar. For more facts about the snow leopard, click HERE.

    It all started as I walked out to listen to our trap-transmitters I suddenly felt that someone was watching me (you know this weird feeling one can get sometimes), I looked up and saw the eye reflections of a big animal about 30 meters away. It hunched down as my headlight hit it, I pulled out my Maglite and when the beam hit it , the animal fled. Hard to be 100 % certain in the dark but it did look like a leopard.

    Then, the night after,  two transmitters went off. All alone, pitch black and 16 degrees C below... My heart was as heavy as my load as I climbed the canyon with two backpacks and my hands full of equipment.

    The collar placement went well.  I skipped some of the samples and measurements and focused on the cats safety. After a little less than an hour he left the site. The cat will likely be named Tsagaan (it means "white" in Mongolian). The day after, Tsagaan Sar (the white month) begun (which is the biggest Mongolian holiday). Further, the cat looked white in the LED light from my head lamp.

    On the 24th, Jenny and Geir Rune [colleagues of Orjan] arrived in camp. They had not been here for more than two hours before a snow leopard begun screaming mating calls in the mountain behind camp. The cat came closer and closer and in the end, the valley echoed with the screams. We went out and I could see eyes reflecting my torch (for the third time in three days). Pretty thrilling moment and I think you can understand how the Swedes (or the Swede and the Norwegian to be picky) felt. Twenty minutes later we listened to the transmitters and the closest one to where the cat was heading was beeping.

    This felt a bit too much really. Jenny and Geir had been here for maybe three hours now and we already ready to collar another snow leopard? It wasn't hard to understand how the talk would go back home "no, collaring snow leopards is a child's game, don't know what Orjan is doing out there really..."

    We packed up and headed for the trap. Something had stepped in it (and made a new scrape nearby) but there was no leopard to be found.

    We checked the transmitters when we came back and one was silent. I took the bike to check it. Looks like an animal has played with the antenna and transmitter and finally bit off the cord...

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    GPS Collar Placed on 3rd Snow Leopard http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=132 Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:01:06 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=132

    IMPORTANT UPDATE 

    On February 24th, 2009, the Snow Leopard Trust placed a GPS radio collar on a 3rd snow leopard. The snow leopard is a male, estimated to be 4-5 years old. He is a little bigger (longer) than Longtail was. His body length is 115 cm, tail length 98 cm and skull length 22 cm. He is 41.5 kg.

    The snow leopard has been nicknamed Tsagaan, in honor of the Mongolias holiday Tsagaan Tsar. It has been confirmed that Tsagaan is asnow leopard photographed with trap cameras and formerly named "Bummer."

    To read how Orjan collared bummer, click HERE.

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    Collar Malfunction http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=137 Sat, 14 Mar 2009 23:10:35 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=137 Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project.  These are his adventures…

    I had a great time with Jenny and Geir [they just left] and I hope, and think, that they enjoyed the visit. In three days Bo comes here. Bo will be one of my supervisors for my PhD.

    Last Sunday morning we could hear a transmiter going on fast pulse [meaning a snow leopard was in the trap], so both Jenny and I got out of the sleeping bags fast. The snow leopard was sitting at the corner of a cliff. As we got closer we saw that the cat already had a GPS radio collar. I knew it was Tsaagan even before I saw his spots.  Well, we got a weight for him (41.5 kg) and could determine that he is the cat formerly known as "Bummer" so at least seeing him again gave us some good information. [When Orjan first gave Tsagaan a GPS collar, it was night and he didn't have a chance to take the cat's weight, or to identify him].

    The day after we met Tsagaan again, I got an e-mail from Kim saying that Tsagaan's collar has malfunctioned. It only worked for five days before it gave up. So when we were with Tsagaan the second time he had a malfunctioning collar and we released him without changing it. Well. We didn't know that it wasn't working, couldn't tell by looking at it.

    In general, we spend about 20 days scouting this area, climbing up and down in the mountains to find the best sites to fit a snow leopard with a GPS collar, then we deployed the trap cameras, check them and collect them. Building the traps takes a great amount of time and they are very carefully constructed so as not to harm the snow leopard. When all this is done we check the traps visually every second day and listen to the transmitters at 18:00, 22:00, 01:30, 05:00, 08:00 and once in the middle of the day. So it is no small matter to accomplish this work, but these kinds of things can happen.

    [At this point, its worth noting the response of Dr. Tom McCarthy, Managing Director of Field Programs: "This is not great news, but it's all in the game of these evolving technologies.  Right now we don't know if the GPS is working and the sat-phone has failed, or vise versa, or the whole collar has gone gunny sack.  Kim is watching for any uplink and will let us know."  Meanwhile, if Orjan gets the chance, he will change the collar.]

    To end with some good news we deployed four cameras and we got pictures of a new cat after three days. The cat looks slender and gives a feminine impression.

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    The Death of Longtail: Official Report Available http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=133 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:15:41 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=133 Dear friends, the Snow Leopard Trust has completed an Official Report on the death of the snow leopard named Longtail. Click HERE to download this report.

    If you are just joining us: Longtail was a snow leopard that the Trust was studying in Mongolia. He was shot and killed on New Years Day, 2009, by a Mongolian herder (first posted on this blog January 16) . We have completed a full investigation concerning his death, and we are taking decisive action to ramp up our conservation work in the region. Thank you for following this story. In the coming months, stay tuned for more news about our continued and expanded work in Mongolia.

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    Snow Leopard Makes the Olympics http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=134 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:37:06 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=134

    Sports fans and snow leopard fans unite. BBC News reports Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong has qualified for the Olympics and will be "the one-man Ghanaian ski team in Vancouver's Winter Olympics in 2010." Kwame was born in Scotland to Ghanaian parents and did all his schooling through University in Ghana.

    Kwame's nickname is the Snow Leopard, and like the cats he is amazing in the snow. It has taken him four years to get this far, and he has described it as a "tough journey." Indeed, his first ski run was on an artificial ski slope. He is the first Ghanaian to qualify for the Winter Olympics.

    Longtime friend of the Trust, we look forward to following his Olympic adveture. At the same time, Kwame is doing all he can to help raise awareness for snow leopards. Check out his website at http://www.ghanaskiteam.com/

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    How to Get a Girl (snow leopard) http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=135 Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:27:08 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=135 Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project.  These are his adventures…

    After the hectic days in late March with snow leopards behind every rock and cords being chewed off [our equipment] and Tsagaan Sar holiday [New Year], we have had some pretty relaxed days now. Tsagaan Sar was very interesting, we went to Midgi and Oyuna and some herders and ate some very good food and drank some very good stuff like fermented camel milk and some other not so good stuff that I don't know what it was.

    We are trying to find a new area to deploy our cameras, but it's not as easy as you may think. Everyone is telling me to fit a female snow leopard with a GPS collar. Honestly, I'm a dirty, bearded Swede living in a tent in the Gobi desert, I'm not exactly David Beckham, what do I know of attracting females?

    We have already tried perfume to attract snow leopards and nice looking rocks, didn't work. Geir [a visiting colleague] claims that the snow leopards probably have a mating central somewhere and if we only find it, our luck will be done. Maybe he's right, it's just we don't know what a snow leopard mating central looks like...

    All suggestions are welcome.

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    135 2009-03-18 14:27:08 2009-03-18 21:27:08 open open how-to-get-a-girl-snow-leopard publish 0 0 post 2542 Hagadone@gmail.com http://www.pursefocus.com 116.23.242.153 2009-08-15 12:11:51 2009-08-15 19:11:51 Louis vuitton handbags,replica handbags,Gucci handbags sale! no more than 200$ http://www.pursefocus.com replica designer handbags, spam 0 2549 Ballen@gmail.com http://www.pursefocus.com 116.23.242.153 2009-08-16 06:24:36 2009-08-16 13:24:36 Louis vuitton handbags,replica handbags,Gucci handbags sale! no more than 200$ http://www.pursefocus.com replica designer handbags, spam 0 1361 makennaomeara@hotmail.com 75.160.102.185 2009-03-19 17:05:18 2009-03-20 00:05:18 Although I have no suggestions, nor do I know why the good looking rocks didnt work, I have the utmost faith you will figure out a solution!! Good Luck and stay warm :) 1 0 1381 B6sxy_jesse@gmail.com http://www.bodynbeautycare.com 128.230.110.166 2009-03-23 11:40:33 2009-03-23 18:40:33 Hey, is there a section just for latest news 1 0 1382 siri@snowleopard.org http:// 75.160.102.185 2009-03-23 12:15:41 2009-03-23 19:15:41 The best section for latest news is our "Beleive it or Not" category. If you want specific news about cub births--then there is that seperate category. Maybe I'll change "Beleive it or Not" to "Latest News"--let me know what you think. 1 0 2440 datingguru2009@gmail.com http://www.rackupdates.com 61.134.60.254 2009-08-07 04:03:19 2009-08-07 11:03:19 I have discovered on-line dating to be a wonderful way to meet people I would not have otherwise come in contact with. I have not been able to meet a lot of woman at my job because I am in a male dominated business, & I just do not work with girls in my industry. Bars & night clubs haven't worked out to well because they are loud places, and it's hard to compete in there. Not to mention the aftermath the next day. A guy friend turned me on to internet dating, and I have found the selection to be much bigger, and the singles to be better quality. Also I have used a ghost writing service to further increase my odds of meeting woman, and I have gone on 6 successful dates as a result. I think for busy men, there is nothing better than online dating for today's modern society. Just my 2 cents... Advice on Dating for Professionals from a Live Seminar of PUA's Giving Men Dating Advice The body of knowledge in the field of "pick-up" has grown significantly in the past few years as millions of males around the world have taken an interest in the subject of dating. Many write up their personal experiences and make up theories of the self and of social dynamics to share with other students around the world. Now Pick up artists can charge thousands of dollars to give men dating advice. A good singles web site: online dating book A good seduction site: dating for professionals Some Neat Web Sites on the Subject of Online Dating: http://technorati.com/people/technorati/rackupdates http://oyax.com/JSmith2534 http://www.mixx.com/users/randytravis254 http://www.propeller.com/member/seduction/ http://www.propeller.com/story/2009/08/01/online-dating-is-simplified-with-automation-ghost-writing/ spam 0
    Tsagaan is Snow Leopard aka “Bummer” http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=136 Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:38:29 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=136 It's official: Tsagaan, the snow leopard we fitted with a radio collar at the end of February, is indeed the cat formerly known as "Bummer." Tsagaan was first called Bummer last year when, with the aid of hidden infrared trap cameras, researchers documented him sniffing around our study area.

    Orjan has also photographed another cat in the base camp area that has not been photographed previously. So far, we have photographed snow leopards Eureka, Superman, and Inquisitive, and Aztai and Tsagaan appear on the cameras all the time. But there may possibly be three more cats, as yet un-named.

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    Snow tracks, researchers and storms http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=138 Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:12:42 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=138 Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project.  These are his adventures…

    I found a really fresh (3-6 hours) snow leopard track in the snow two weeks ago. I try to gather as much information about the animal as possible, try to learn why it walks where it does, where it's heading, try to understand why it makes the choices it do. Strange in a way, I mean we have trap cameras. GPS collars, DNA, the whole lot of advanced technologies. But still, there is something special with a snow track...

    The morning after Jenny and Geir left one of our traps was tripped. I strapped one of the backpacks to the back of the dirtbike, the blowpipe to the second backpack and tried to kick start the bike. It was quite cold and the bike refused to start at first and since I had my face mask and ski goggles on, the goggles fogged up from my body heat. When I got the bike running I had to take of the goggles to see something but tears started running from the cold wind and immediately froze in my eye lashes.

    Yesterday I got a couple of e-mails from Bayara saying there is a really bad storm coming and the authorities in South Gobi do not allow people to travel out of the villages. But Miji and Bo got a permission to leave Dalandzadgad. Well, if there is anyone who will make it through a storm in the Gobi that I know of I reckon that it is Bo. He is a super nice man and a typical biologist in many ways, specialized in conservation, butterflies and birds. He is also the only person I know who has fixed a gear box on a 4wd car with a Leatherman. Man, I'm happy if I'm able to figure out how to get the scissors out on the Leatherman, I have never really considered trying to fix something with it.

    All 11 cameras are out. Yes, we have 11 again. The one that Longtail tried to kill [he bit it] when we put the collar on him has been repaired again. I will move two of the cameras but need to do some more fine-scale scouting of the area before I decide where to put them. I think that the new area looks very promising and I have snow tracks of two leopards in it!! I can't say if it is two separate occasions or a pair of leopards and the snow is too patchy to get a good estimate of paw size. Still, it's a good sign. Today was the first spring day, with 7 degrees above zero as the warmest record for 2009!

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    The Ups and Downs http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=139 Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:24:26 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=139 I thought this was interesting: Before they were able to fit Tsagaan with a GPS radio collar, our researchers spent about 20 days scouting this area, climbing up and down in the mountains to find the best sites. Then they deployed hidden cameras, checked them and collected them. Then they build traps, taking extra care to make sure the traps would not harm snow leopards in any way once deployed. Once set, they checked the traps visually every second day and listened to the transmitters at 18:00, 22:00, 01:30, 05:00, 08:00.

    We recently has a collar mishap. Seems Tsagaan's collar is not transmitting data. Dr. Tom McCarthy comments: "This is not great news, but it's all in the game of these evolving technologies.  Right now we don't know if the GPS is working and the sat-phone has failed, or vise versa, or the whole collar has gone gunny sack." Orjan will attemp to change out the collar, ife he can manage to meet up with Tsagaan again.  

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    139 2009-03-18 15:24:26 2009-03-18 22:24:26 open open the-ups-and-downs publish 0 0 post 1623 TyreePachecoVX@gmail.com http://www.phone-numbersearch.com 74.195.247.73 2009-04-23 12:44:29 2009-04-23 19:44:29 I've never even thought about commenting till now. I guess if I really like a post I find myself checking the external links for more and favoriting (if that is a word) the post instead. From now on though I'll definitely try and drop a comment every so often. 1 0 1624 siri@snowleopard.org http:// 75.160.102.185 2009-04-23 13:36:44 2009-04-23 20:36:44 That is really helpful feedback. Thanks. We appreciate all comments and we are always looking for ways to be better. Your thoughts and ideas are ALWAYS welcome. I should mention too that comments often bring to light questions and issues that weren't on our radar. That's why they are so valuable. 1 0
    Tsagaan On Air http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=140 Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:30:55 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=140 Great news--as we said earlier, we were having trouble getting uplinks from Tsagaan's collar. Orjan was able to catch up with Tsagaan again and switch out the collar.

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    140 2009-03-21 10:30:55 2009-03-21 17:30:55 open open tsagaan-on-air publish 0 0 post 1443 ruskori@mail.ru 158.110.52.209 2009-03-30 03:10:50 2009-03-30 10:10:50 Hi,everybody! Yes_ this is a great news to catch up him again. I wonder these animals are very clever but they can get into a snare very easy ;)) 1 0
    Tsagaan Re-collared http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=141 Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:14:25 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=141 Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project.  These are his adventures… As mentioned a few days ago on this blog, we re-collared Tsagaan a couple of days ago. It feels really, really great! Here are some more details: After sedating him, we changed his collar, put him in the sleeping bag, and gave him the antidote.  (Editor's Note: Sedation does not cause the animal any distress, and is necessary for their safety.) After about 30 minutes he raised his head and gave up a BIG yawn, then he laid down again. I had arranged the sleeping bag so he had a pillow. We waited for maybe ten more minutes, then decided to approach him. When he heard the footsteps in the gravel, he sat up and looked at us with an expression on his face that seemed to say "How the **** did you guys get here without me noticing?" Then he took off. The following day, we closed our traps to evaluate the situation, and see if Tsagaan would leave the area. If he does leave, I will likely collect the traps and start preparing to change their placements. The cameras have only been out for a week, and we have a lot of hiking and motor biking to do before we can be sure that we have found the best trap sites. As soon as we closed the traps, I lost all my energy, and sat in front of the fire for a long time with a blank expression. As long as one has to keep going, I can withhold diseases, injuries and tiredness - but as soon as I relax, it all comes tumbling down on me. Not that I am sick or injured, I'm just a little tired. But I will be fine in a couple of days. Bo was obviously excited to see the snow leopard, but he is a birder - and when we saw a Hume's Ground Jay, he almost fell off the motorbike. I could tell from his face that it was something special; apparently it is a very rare bird that has been hard to classify. For a while, birders thought that it as a woodpecker, then a jay, and now they think that it's a chickadee. I have seen the bird quite a few times but never paid it much attention. I can tell that it's not a duck, but no more than that... Spring has finally arrived. We have seen some migrating birds and a few insects. Feels great, even though the nights are still pretty cold.]]> 141 2009-04-02 09:14:25 2009-04-02 16:14:25 open open tsagaan-re-collared publish 0 0 post Cubs Have Been Spotted! http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=142 Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:29:04 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=142 Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project.  These are his adventures… Two days ago, Bo and I went with Miji to visit a family whose livestock had been raided by a female snow leopard with two cubs. This was the first sighting of cubs in long time, and all that tiredness I wrote about last time disappeared when I heard this news. Bo left with Miji for Dalandzadgad this morning. I wasn't sure of what to do today, but after a while, I got too eager to check the area where the female with cubs had been spotted. I packed my bag and took off. We've had ten warm days with lots of sightings of migrating birds and insects. This morning was sunny and warm, and I behaved like an amateur: I took the motorbike on dirt tracks to a place 30 km away (as the bird flies) without proper equipment. When I was about two km from the mountain range, I noticed that I couldn't see the mountains anymore. A few minutes later, I was in the middle of a snow storm, and I couldn't see much at all anymore. I always carry tools to repair the bike, in addition to water, food, and matches (though I don't know what to build a fire with out in the treeless desert), a headlamp, and a thin down jacket in the backpack. What I didn't bring were my gauntlets (big mittens with a windproof layer on the outside). My hands are my weak point when it's cold. It didn't take long for my gloves to get wet, or for my hands to go numb. I turned towards base camp; there is a "road" going there, and it's closer than our trap camp. To make matters worse, the only maps we have are A4 printouts with contours of the topography - each line represents a 10-meter difference in altitude, so they are not very accurate. I can usually navigate using the sun and my watch, which is fine, when you can see the sun. The mountains contain a lot of iron ore, so our compasses don't work very well out here. I do have a GPS, but since our maps don't have gridlines, I can only use it to find stored positions. So... I checked the GPS every time I stopped to get some blood back into my hands, to be semi-certain that I was going in the right direction, and I eventually got back to Base Camp. To my disappointment, no one was there, and I didn't have the keys to our ger. Well, nothing to do but drive to the trap camp, and in the end I just hung on to the bike without shifting or changing the throttle. Our neighbor was herding livestock just outside our camp when I got there, and I invited him in to thaw out over a cup of tea. Tomorrow, I will pack more clothes and find that female...]]> 142 2009-04-06 18:29:04 2009-04-07 01:29:04 open open never-trust-that-spring-is-coming publish 0 0 post 1764 siri@snowleopard.org http:// 75.160.102.185 2009-05-12 10:40:35 2009-05-12 17:40:35 Sorry for the delay, but I have finally posted a page called "Collar FAQs" under the About Us section on the right. Check it out. There is a lot of general info about the collars, and also we address your questions about risk. I hope this helps! 1 0 1733 mg@passagen.se 85.226.110.189 2009-05-08 11:26:59 2009-05-08 18:26:59 Last saturday SVT (Swedish television) had a wolf-theme. Among other wolves we could follow the leader of the pack, "Ulrik", who was sedated, collared and recollared a couple of times but after a few times (this was done over a period of several years and due to limited lifetime of the collars) they chose not to sedate him again due to the risks. In the beginning they used collars that could be traced by hunters (probably wolfhaters or maybe livestock owners) but later on they got new equipment that´s safer for the animals. In my opinion the collaring procedure is harmless if done properly. 1 0 1551 siri@snowleopard.org http:// 75.160.102.185 2009-04-13 11:59:52 2009-04-13 18:59:52 This is indeed very sad to hear. I will pass your comment along and post their reply. 1 0 1549 siri@snowleopard.org http:// 75.160.102.185 2009-04-13 11:37:17 2009-04-13 18:37:17 Hi Linda, this is a very good question, and we did hear of the collared jaguar that passed away. I will run this question past our biologists, but for the moment what I would like to say is that this is a primary concern of ours as well. 1 0 1575 terry.tucker1@comcast.net 38.116.132.226 2009-04-16 14:10:46 2009-04-16 21:10:46 I am also curious about the risk. There was a cheetah that was shown on Big Cat Diary some years ago that died from being darted -- she died the day after being darted. It seems there is risk with both collaring and darting, and it would be good to know the actual percentages. 1 0 1537 ldills@earthlink.net 72.208.35.118 2009-04-10 16:59:07 2009-04-10 23:59:07 How much stress do you believe the collar causes to the animals health? There was a jaguar collared in our area that died 2 weeks later, some say due to the stress of being collared. 1 0 1550 ldills@earthlink.net 72.208.35.118 2009-04-13 11:49:11 2009-04-13 18:49:11 Thank you for the reply. It was indeed heartbreaking to lose the only Jaguar known to be living wild in the US. Investigations have found that alot of the tagging and such was not done properly. I would like to know what your biologists say about this subject. 1 0 Melbourne Cubs Named–See the Video http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=143 Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:26:47 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=143 Herald Sun reports that Melbourne Zoo's new snow leopard cubs are named Tashi and Gobi. The local paper held a naming contest for the cubs. Not only are the cubs the first in 20 years for the Zoo, but they are the first for mom Meo. But keepers say they are fat and happy--there is a great video here.]]> 143 2009-04-08 13:26:47 2009-04-08 20:26:47 open open melbourne-cubs-named-see-the-video publish 0 0 post The Hard Life and the Good Life http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=144 Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:56:06 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=144 ]]> 144 2009-04-08 13:56:06 2009-04-08 20:56:06 open open the-hard-life-and-the-good-life publish 0 0 post Oyuna Crazy fires http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=147 Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:26:21 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=147 Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project.  These are his adventures…

    If you come to Mongolia you will notice that no matter how cold it is outside it will be very, very warm inside the gers. And warmest of all the gers is the one that Oyuna currently is in. That's what I think... Last autumn she could come into my ger and throw wood or coal into the stove and immediately go again, leaving me sweating and panting. My protests helped little, she just waited a minute until my focus was elsewhere and then she struck, throwing a large chunk of coal into the fire. I tried opening the door and leave it open to make her understand, nope, she still threw in more wood, I stripped down until I was sitting in my underwear, didn't help, she kept throwing in wood. I left the door opened, in my underwear... nope didn't help either.

     The ger is so warm that our candles melt--I have pictures.

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    147 2009-04-09 10:26:21 2009-04-09 17:26:21 open open oyuna-crazy-fires publish 0 0 post 2580 Dorseycornwall@yahoo.com http://www.myfinelingerie.com 58.8.133.211 2009-08-19 11:38:02 2009-08-19 18:38:02 What template are you running on this site ? I really like it. Could you post where you got it from ? spam 0
    Ibex and Sandstorms http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=148 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:35:58 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=148 Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project.  These are his adventures…

    Emma left today. This must be the emptiest day in the Gobi for me. We have built ten traps, put out a few cameras, checked some kill sites and enjoyed the mountains. This is a spectacular place. A week ago we caught an ibex in one of our traps. We got the snare off and let her go, she was a little shaky but otherwise she was in good shape. Seems as if ibex get a bit more stressed than snow leopards do and therefore the recommended drugs is not enough.

    I have cracked or broken a rib, not sure which but it points out a little so I lean towards the latter. Not very fun when we are bouncing around on bikes and climbing mountains. Besides I broke it in such a stupid way that I can't really whine about it. Early one evening as I was typing in data on the computer, the ger suddenly got dark. We looked out and the sky was all yellow. A huge sandstorm was coming towards us. I didn't think it would be too bad since we are in the mountains and we thought it was a little exciting at first (Yup, like two tourists). Soon it got a little more exciting, the storm ripped the ger's cover and plastic sheet apart like nothing. We tied the ger down with our water cans, our gas cans, the two motorbikes, everything we had, but it was still a close call. I crawled around on the roof, trying to tie ropes across the biggest holes in the ger cover and putting heavy items on the roof while Emma tied down items along the walls. Most of our furniture got blown or knocked over as the ger moved, first the kitchen cupboard fell over, spreading broken plates and cups over the floor. Emma is a tough girl but she didn't look completely happy as she hung on to one of the poles that hold the ger up to prevent it from going up into the air. The morning after we had a layer of sand all over the floor and our gear and the entire ger looked like a battle field. It must have been cold because there was still a layer of ice in all our water at two in the afternoon. Oyuna says that almost 20 people died in the storm. Poor herders, they probably had to tend to their animals. We were never in any real danger, if the ger had blown away we could have made a shelter with our furniture and some felt and stayed in our sleeping bags and blankets but I wouldn't have wanted to go out in the storm for any longer time.]]>
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    The nomad life. http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=146 Mon, 04 May 2009 17:26:20 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=146 Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project.  These are his adventures…

    Today we moved and built the new camp. I checked our cameras again and there were no snow leopard pictures on them, so in two weeks we have not gotten a single picture of an un-collared individual. Could be a coincidence and tonight we might get tons of pictures of snow leopards but the cameras are just ten km from Base camp and I will move back here in June when there will be more staff from SLT living here.

    A couple of years ago a researcher at Grimso Research Station told me that to understand how individuals of the species I studied behaved and thought (at that time wolves) I had to observe them. If I couldn't observe the wolves, then I should observe dogs and combine the knowledge that I gained with information from snow tracking, collars, where they chose day-rests etc. In the case with snow leopards, I have studied Friday [the base camp housecat], searched for tracks and signs of the snow leopards, where their prey is abundant looked at trap camera pictures and so on. I think that I have gotten a little bit towards understanding them.  So I have put on my snow leopard glasses to try and to see the world as they do and then put on the snow leopard thinking cap to move through the world as they do. Or maybe rather as they move through the flat parts of their world. I have no ambition to start rock-climbing vertical walls. The last week I have spent running up and down mountains and canyons to find the best collaring sites. It's a strenuous job since it's not enough to find a good canyon, I still have to check all the neighboring canyons to make sure that they are not better. I have found five really good sites. One of them is the best that I have ever seen. In a couple of days, my girlfriend Emma will come here and stay for almost three weeks. It will be so great to see her again. I've been here for a while and will not go home until the end of summer. Miji and I will go to Dalandzadgad to pick her up. I have some errands to do in town and I thought it could be nice to take a shower since the last one I took was on the 29th of January. But who's counting days...]]>
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    More News about (4th) Snow Leopard http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=145 Wed, 06 May 2009 16:51:06 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=145 The Snow Leoaprd Trust is annoucing the collaring of a 4th snow leopard in Mongolia. To read Orjan's post about the event, click here. 

    Our team just placed a GPS radio collar on a 4th snow leopard. This is a cat we have never seen before on our remote cameras, bringing the number of snow leopards using our study area to nine! The new cat has been named Shonkhor, which means “falcon” in Mongolian. A pair of endangered Saker Falcons were nesting at the site where he was collared. In addition, falcons are a symbol of youth in Mongolia, and Shonkhor appears to be a young cat: Orjan describes him as “quite small,” weighing a little less than 70 lbs (~35kg).

    If it is true that Shonkhor is indeed a youngster, it will provide the Trust with an unprecedented opportunity to learn how the movements of younger cats compare with those of adults, and how cubs establish their home ranges. This information has never been documented before, but is key to understanding how snow leopards use their habitat so that we can design programs and policies to ensure their survival. Check out the category "Mongolia: Following Orjan" to read more details, straight from the man who did all the work.

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    145 2009-05-06 09:51:06 2009-05-06 16:51:06 open open new-4th-snow-leopard-on-the-air publish 0 0 post 1754 siri@snowleopard.org http:// 75.160.102.185 2009-05-11 10:03:48 2009-05-11 17:03:48 In 2006, the Snow Leopard Trust collared a snow leopard in Pakistan using the same type of collar. That is the cat you saw filmed in Beyond the Myth. A lot of these same questions came up then--why are the collars so big, do they impede hunting, etc. We developed a FAQ sheet and I think I'll share it around again. I am making a new page in the "About Us" section titled "Collar FAQs." If you still have more questions after that, please feel free to post them. 1 0 1747 sylviaw76@cryogenic.net 122.106.220.150 2009-05-10 05:39:02 2009-05-10 12:39:02 Are these collars less intrusive than those shown in the documentary "Snow Leopard: Beyond the Myth" ? I was quite shocked that scientists placing such a collar could be so indifferent to the need to maintain the animal's camouflage. The mere existence of a collar that makes the animal easier to see could lead to its changing its behaviour, thus invalidating the results. Assuming it didn't die of starvation first. 1 0 1766 sylviaw76@cryogenic.net 122.106.220.150 2009-05-12 21:36:25 2009-05-13 04:36:25 Yes, I was aware that the prey wouldn't perceive colour the way we do, or I'd have commented on the blue ear tags. Perhaps I should have done anyway - maybe the prey can't see them clearly, but birds would be able to, and birds may alert prey to the existence of the leopard. Even if the collars get dirty, and end up being a different colour, I'd be surprised if they end up spotted the way the leopard is. Maybe the spots are an evolutionary hang-over that no longer have any survival significance, but it's not an assumption I'd want to make. 1 0
    Fourth Snow Leopard: Shonkhor http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=149 Wed, 06 May 2009 17:41:14 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=149 Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project.  These are his adventures…

    I am doing something wrong. We placed a collar on our fourth snow leopard a couple of days ago. It is a ... male. Surprise eh? Don't know what it is that I do but I don't seem to be able to collar females. The leopard is probably a youngster, he was quite small and weighed a little less than 35 kg. We named him Shonkhor (it means falcon in Mongolian). There is a pair of falcons nesting at the collaring site and falcons symbolize youth in Mongolia (according to Nadia). When I approached Shonkhor, he rolled around and laid on his back. Tricky. Very tricky.

    The collaring procedure went smooth and Emma managed to get blood samples from him (I bow my head and admit that I have been beaten in that skill)...

    I hope that Shonkhor is a youngster and that he is moving around to find an area to settle down in. Would be great to get some data on snow leopard dispersal.  

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    149 2009-05-06 10:41:14 2009-05-06 17:41:14 open open fourth-snow-leopard-shonkhor publish 0 0 post 1711 http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=145 208.113.202.211 2009-05-06 10:52:53 2009-05-06 17:52:53 [...] The Snow Leoaprd Trust is annoucing the collaring of a 4th snow leopard in Mongolia. This read Orjan’s post about the event, click here.   [...] 1 pingback 0
    Fifth Cat Collared: Saikhan http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=151 Tue, 12 May 2009 17:40:52 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=151 Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project.  These are his adventures…

    We placed a GPS tracking collar on a fifth snow leopard. It is a male, what else to expect. We might have hit jackpot though, he weighs 33.8 kg and looks very young. I am starting to think that maybe he and Shonkhor are brothers and these two SL were the "kittens" that raided the herder along with their mother in February. Maybe they have just dispersed from their mother and are still in her home range. Or it is a mere co-incidence. Both of them are almost identical in size and weight. Meg and I are almost sure that the new guy is two years old.

    When we analyze the DNA samples I guess we will know, and when some data comes in from the collars we will see if the two move together. If they are brothers and dispersals, then...wow.

    The new cat has the prettiest spot pattern of all our identified SL and therefore we have named him Saikhan (Beautiful in Mongolian).

    Saikhan can't be considered a kitten, and even if it turns out that he is associated to his mother I would call him a subadult. I only have one collar left now.

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    Orjan finally found a girl! http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=152 Tue, 12 May 2009 17:57:44 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=152 Orjan has just placed GPS collars on two more snow leopards: Saikhan (fifth cat to be collared) and, this morning, a female snow leopard (sixth cat to be collared, as yet no nickname). You can read Orjan's account of Saikhan HERE, but the female snow leopard is so new, we still have very little information. Here is what we do know:

    She's small, about 30 kg, and she is most likely not the mother of Saikhan and/or Shonkhor.

    This is the first female to enter our long-term study.

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    GPS Study Goals Met http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=154 Thu, 14 May 2009 21:32:06 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=154 With the exciting news that a female snow leopard is "on the air" in Mongolia, we have reached a major milestone. Our team had a total of six collars on hand, and they used them all.

    What we are learning is already quite amazing. We found that the home ranges of Aztai and Bayartai overlapped extensively. Instead of using exclusive areas, the cats appear to be relying on the timing of their movements to avoid direct encounters that could result in aggressive confrontations. And, we’ve learned that these snow leopards are routinely using areas of 1,000 km2 (386 square miles) or more, revealing that we need to define our Snow Leopard Enterprise conservation efforts on a much broader scale than we previously envisioned.

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    The Sixth Snow Leopard http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=155 Sat, 23 May 2009 01:04:24 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=155 Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project.  These are his adventures… Yeeeeeaaaaahhhiiii!! A female. We have a female. And it is a very pretty female too. We fitted her with a collar very close to Camp, and since it was dark we decided to walk there instead of taking the bikes. We named the cat Suhder, which means "shadow" in Mongolian. It feels as if we have been chasing a shadow. She weighs just a little more than 30 kg, though she seemed to have an empty stomach, so she would probably have weighed a bit more if she'd had a good meal before we found her. We are now out of collars, and so we broke camp. I am back in Base Camp again, awaiting further orders. Or collars. Either is fine. The desert is flowering right now. Maybe not too impressive if you arrive here now, but to me, someone who has seen the desert without flowers for such a long time, it is fantastic! So many beautiful flowers in this harsh terrain. 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Their mother is Liebe, from the Nuremberg Zoo in Germany and the father is Akbar, from the Tama Zoo in Japan. Here is the link to the news (in Japanese). AKBAR was born at Tama zoo in 2005, and is a son of SHYNGHYZ & MAYU, and a full elder brother to MAIYA (photo right).

    These cubs were just born and we don't yet know their sexes. Here's hoping they grow up strong and healthy.

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    Tama Zoo Cubs: One Year Later http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=158 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:14:19 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=158 born last year at the Tama Zoo in Tokyo, Japan - Suou, Kohaku, and Han - recently celebrated their first birthday.  It's great to see them growing up healthily.  Suou Kohaku Han]]> 158 2009-06-09 18:14:19 2009-06-10 01:14:19 open open tama-zoo-cubs-one-year-later publish 0 0 post Alone in the Gobi http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=159 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:01:23 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=159 Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project.  These are his adventures…

    We were all very happy that we had caught a female. Too bad this joy turned into misery after just two days when we didn't get any fixes from her collar. Meg and I went back to Trap Area 3 and tried to pick the collar's VHF signal. After a couple of hours we found the collar in a cave. It looked as if Suhder had wedged it between two rocks and pulled it over her head. There are so many items on the collars that they lose their round shape when tightened to fit a female, and some "corners" appear. I also gave her just a little room to grow in, in case she wasn't fully grown yet. The collar wasn't tight enough. Seems as if this female capturing business will be my nemesis.  

    I have been alone in camp for 17 days now, and it will be another week until the summer crew arrives. I don't have much to do until they come here. I still have Suhder's collar, but need a new piece of belt for it that I am expecting any day now. The summer crew is also bringing new collars. With little to do here, let downs with the female's collar, and no one to talk to, I resorted to the only solution - I spent two days in the ger watching sad movies and indulging in chocolate while talking to Friday [the camp housecat].

    Indulging might be saying too much: I ate the two bars that I had. That felt like indulging. And the movies weren't really sad. To top it off, Miji killed a goat and the darn cat abandoned me in hope to get some fresh goat meat. So much for comforting me...

    The good news is that I have started scouting the collaring area. I am aiming to find Superman, and I think that I know where he/she is, based on the three cameras that have taken pictures of him/her. It seems as if Tsagaan, a collared cat, is avoiding part of the mountain range north of his home range, which would point towards Superman being a rival male. I have found quite a lot of scrapes and scent marks (urine on rock walls.

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    Field Camera Footage of a Wild Snow Leopard http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=161 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:04:50 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=161 Here is a video of Saikhan, a wild male snow leopard we are studying in Mongolia. Assistant Director of Science Kim Murray made this video by piecing together still frames, taken every half second, from a remote field camera.  

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    Two Cubs Born at Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=162 Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:21:00 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=162 Woodland Park Zoo blog:

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    Video of Woodland Park Zoo Cubs http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=166 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:51:11 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=166 video of the new cubs, courtesy of Woodland Park Zoo.]]> 166 2009-06-25 08:51:11 2009-06-25 15:51:11 open open video-of-woodland-park-zoo-cubs-2 publish 0 0 post New Snow Leopard Exhibit at Central Park Zoo http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=167 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:29:53 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=167 HERE.]]> 167 2009-06-25 09:29:53 2009-06-25 16:29:53 open open new-snow-leopard-exhibit-at-central-park-zoo publish 0 0 post 2531 gonxyk@gwtgk.com http://6wocqyl1vhc5amya.com 83.25.236.233 2009-08-14 12:28:48 2009-08-14 19:28:48 [url=http://v2jgrztqk81g2mbr.com/]w3sej1kfvfzqrzsn[/url] [link=http://drpc2wx41r0l08lz.com/]56mvuvi99o61y76x[/link] 1l26tfvttis5xiro http://5asvv6khj8udmz6j.com/ spam 0 2419 krvs@yzwe.com http://6wocqyl1vhc5amya.com 24.5.180.236 2009-08-05 05:08:16 2009-08-05 12:08:16 [url=http://v2jgrztqk81g2mbr.com/]w3sej1kfvfzqrzsn[/url] [link=http://drpc2wx41r0l08lz.com/]56mvuvi99o61y76x[/link] 1l26tfvttis5xiro http://5asvv6khj8udmz6j.com/ spam 0 2472 cghlu@ucygta.com http://6wocqyl1vhc5amya.com 98.223.196.112 2009-08-09 14:28:42 2009-08-09 21:28:42 [url=http://v2jgrztqk81g2mbr.com/]w3sej1kfvfzqrzsn[/url] [link=http://drpc2wx41r0l08lz.com/]56mvuvi99o61y76x[/link] 1l26tfvttis5xiro http://5asvv6khj8udmz6j.com/ spam 0 Good news for snow leopards in India http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=171 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:18:20 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=171

    A preliminary report from our team in India: a fourth community has established a grazing-free reserve. Grazing-free reserves are created by herding communities in snow leopard habitat. Part of the grazing area belonging to the village council is protected from livestock and other forms of resource use to enable the recovery of snow leopards and their prey. 

    Three reserves exist in northern India (two in the Spiti Valley and one in Ladakh), and now a fourth one has been created in the community of Lossar (further up the Spiti Valley). In additions to being important for snow leopards, this new reserve harbours Himalayan ibex, red fox, and possibly Tibetan wolf. The Lossar village will appoint a Reserve Guard to patrol and monitor wildlife in the reserve, and will choose alternate pastures for their livestock.

    We are very excited to support these efforts. The largest and oldest reserve, in the Kibber community, has been extremely successful and highlights the good that can come from these reserves: today, the Kibber reserve is home to the largest population of blue sheep in the region (nearly 350), and 3-4 snow leopards have been observed using the reserve.

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    171 2009-06-30 12:18:20 2009-06-30 19:18:20 open open good-news-for-snow-leopards-in-india publish 0 0 post 2203 sumitjoshi23@rediff.com http://rediff.com 123.239.162.12 2009-07-08 13:33:32 2009-07-08 20:33:32 Fabulous news also for people who love snow leopards. I'd like to add that the higher reaches of pithoragarh district in uttarakhand are also home to snow leopards. I'd like you people to also include this region in your dedicated conservation efforts. I'd like to mention here that the snow leopards conservation programme will indeed get along well, generate the all vital awareness factor towards providing a more safer habitat and help prosper the population of these magnificant cats in this region. I'd like to associate myself and if possible give my active services on field and work in this conservation programme. Please do provide me with the requisite information on the above. regards, Sumit joshi Project officer, Govt. of India-UNDP: DRM (Disaster risk mg.) prog., Nainital, Uttarakhand, India. 1 0 2500 vetuncia@rediffmail.com 59.94.251.6 2009-08-12 09:56:52 2009-08-12 16:56:52 Snow Leopard which is the State Animal of Himachal Pradesh deserve all this and such a fabulous step should had taken earlier.Grazing-Free Reserves ,is a great example of public -Govt participation and will prove a milestone in Snow Leopard Conservation as one side it will prowide a safe zone to the Ungulates hence improving prey base ,improvement of Habitat and secondly making it people"s movement to safeguard this Majestic ,Flagship Species of Himalayan Region .I had rare opportunity to hand rear two cubs if this Species wayback in 1998 in Tod Valley of Lahaul so would like to request all concerned to creat such Zones in area stretching from village Kwaring to yochey and Rarik-Chhika extending to Kargil(Lamayuru) and Patseo. 1 0 2199 ajaz_ntfp@yahoo.com 119.154.21.207 2009-07-08 10:24:46 2009-07-08 17:24:46 The Conservation of this valuable spp is vital importance. i hope that such kind of grazing free reserve will provide a safe habitat fro the snowleopard, i think this reserve will act as a model for snowleopard conservation, its a good job, Ajaz Ahmed Chitral, Pakistan 1 0 2200 siri@snowleopard.org http:// 75.160.102.185 2009-07-08 11:05:33 2009-07-08 18:05:33 Ajaz, thank you for the comment. We try to build all our programs so that they can be replicated. Do you know about our programs in Chitral? http://www.snowleopard.org/programs/communitybasedconservation/livestockvacc 1 0
    Zoos with new cubs! http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=172 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:11:10 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=172 Some of these we announced earlier, but here is a summary of the zoos we know have cubs so far: Toronto Zoo: (Canada) 2 cubs born May 15, 2009 to Kota (dad) and Tiga (mom) Woodland Park Zoo: (US) 2 cubs born May 25th, 2009 to Helen (mom) and Tom (dad) Albuquerque Biological Park, Rio Grande Zoo: (US) 2 cubs born May 7, 2009 to Kachina (mom) and Azeo (dad) Maruyama Zoo: (Japan) 2 cubs born on May 2, 2009 to Liebe (mom) and Akbar (dad) (photo of them above by Maruyama Zoo staff) JUST ADDED: Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park (also called Darjeeling Zoo): 3 cubs born on April 18, 2009 to Neeta (mom) and Karan (male) Spring is an exciting time. There may be more to come!]]> 172 2009-06-30 14:11:10 2009-06-30 21:11:10 open open zoos-with-new-cubs publish 0 0 post 2289 Queenfire88@msn.com 65.55.67.216 2009-07-18 18:54:47 2009-07-19 01:54:47 Our local zoo here in Utah in the United States has just had our own Snow Leopard born and I'm so thrilled that we can be part of the conservation effort to keep the gene pool going strong. Plus the cub is just so cute and our female is a terrific mother. I couldn't be prouder. 1 0 2202 rochetjl@yahoo.fr 88.189.17.214 2009-07-08 13:21:33 2009-07-08 20:21:33 So cute Welcome at all these babies, even if this world is not nice for you Finally, thank you so much for all your actions 1 0 2194 ldills@earthlink.net 72.208.35.118 2009-07-08 08:15:29 2009-07-08 15:15:29 Adorable!!!! 1 0 2193 aliceridden@googlemail.com 88.108.225.116 2009-07-08 07:11:10 2009-07-08 14:11:10 They are so cute. Thank you for all your excellent work. Thank you a million times. xxxx 1 0 2209 http://www.darjeelingnews.net/tourist-attractions/padmaja-naidu-himalayan-zoological-park.html 74.220.219.120 2009-07-09 01:54:13 2009-07-09 08:54:13 [...] Snow Leopard Trust reports that 3 snow leopard cubs born on April 18, 2009 to Neeta (mom) and Karan (male). [...] 1 pingback 0 2503 siri@snowleopard.org http:// 75.160.102.185 2009-08-12 11:24:36 2009-08-12 18:24:36 Sorry it took so long, but here is an answer to Nazgul's question: At this time, snow leopards that are born in zoos cannot be reintroduced to the wild. Large carnivores like tigers, lions, and snow leopards have very complex hunting behaviors that they have to learn from their mothers over a period of several years. Right now, the ways zoos are set up, cats born in zoos do not have a chance to learn how to hunt and therefore would not be able to fend for themselves in the wild. Right now, reintroductions of captive snow leopards is not a focus for globally limited conservation resources. Even though snow leopards are "endangered", there are still enough living and reproducing in the wild to prevent the species from going extinct. That is why most efforts are focused on ensuring they have adequate habitat and prey populations, that bans on illegal hunting are enforced, and increasing awareness and tolerance. That said, snow leopards are so elusive, that sometimes we can only estimate how they might live in the wild by learning from snow leopards in zoos. So in order to not need reintroduction, zoos can be very helpful... 1 0 2191 alan_jha@yahoo.co.in 61.2.168.205 2009-07-08 03:49:27 2009-07-08 10:49:27 Dear Collegues We in Padmaja Naidu himalyan Zoological Park ( also called as Darjeeling Zoo) had been doing conservation breeding of Snow Leopards since 1986.On 18th april 2009 three female cubs were born to wild rescued female NEETA and zoo bred male KARAN. Just for your information. 1 0 2189 river_girl84@hotmail.com 125.236.227.105 2009-07-07 17:46:03 2009-07-08 00:46:03 soooo cuuuute!!! 1 0 2466 81@nik.345.pl http://www.npoet.ru 89.149.244.89 2009-08-09 05:11:44 2009-08-09 12:11:44 How much money has passed thru your hands in a lifetime? spam 0 2228 mactasha@yahoo.com 24.57.88.211 2009-07-11 15:11:23 2009-07-11 22:11:23 Breeding animals to live life in a cage is NOT true conservation =( 1 0 2221 whistlingclanger@hotmail.com 82.7.95.52 2009-07-10 13:28:34 2009-07-10 20:28:34 Also, Welsh Mountain Zoo in Colwyn Bay, Wales, UK has had 2 cubs on 28 May. 1 0 2223 dan_chan666@hotmail.com http://tvd-photography.deviantart.com 58.178.200.109 2009-07-10 18:07:51 2009-07-11 01:07:51 I know our cubs weren't born this year but Melbourne Zoo has 2 cubs also Tashi and Gobi. 1 boy and 1 girl born to mother Meo on the 07/12/08. Here is a link :) http://www.zoo.org.au/Melbourne/News/Snow_Leopard_Cubs But it's such great news to hear more cubs have been born around the world :) ~Dani 1 0 2188 norajones24@yahoo.com.au http://www.ecosh.net,www.kidswrite.biz 121.216.223.141 2009-07-07 16:46:11 2009-07-07 23:46:11 How adorable!! I would love to put this on my facebook page. Have you thought of creating a link? 1 0 2491 dsfsdfsdfsdsdf@mail.ru http://showhype.com/profile/supaperec/ 93.100.73.143 2009-08-10 16:08:46 2009-08-10 23:08:46 10 daily free porn free celebrity cartoon porn free clips of latina porn spam 0 2308 siri@snowleopard.org http:// 75.160.102.185 2009-07-20 09:44:01 2009-07-20 16:44:01 Good question Nazgul--I have sent it out to be answered by our experts. 1 0 2275 gentlefl@yahoo.com 77.235.5.177 2009-07-17 09:09:26 2009-07-17 16:09:26 It is such a great news!!! However, I wonder if there is any chance for reintroduction into the wild? Do scientists work on this anywhere in the world? 1 0 2217 moeru_moeru@hotmail.com 69.181.196.206 2009-07-09 17:18:29 2009-07-10 00:18:29 they're just precious - i melted! i wish them long healthy lives ^^ <3 1 0 2230 celexy12@hotmail.com 87.250.42.160 2009-07-12 08:34:09 2009-07-12 15:34:09 your actions has payed of,i cant think of anything cuter than those cubs.they are just adorable!!!!Than you for all what you`re doing,its so important that for us and this planet! 1 0 Summer Crew http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=168 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:53:46 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=168 Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project.  These are his adventures…

    The summer crew arrived in Base Camp on the evening of the 15th of June and since then, things have been busy here. The crew consists of Kim (boss), Koustubh (our regional biologist from India), Ashley (volunteer from UK), Lou (volunteer from New Zealand), Munkhoo and Sumbee (interns from Mongolia). I am working in the same area as when I first came here last year but some things have changed... there aren't many fresh snow leopard sign in the canyons...instead, the area is now swarming with ibex...

    The summer crew has been very busy putting out cameras all over the mountain range, performing snow leopard sign surveys and collecting snow leopard scats. It is a very ambitious study that they have planned and it could very well have worked if our car hadn't taken one blow too much and finally succumbed to the Gobi terrain. Miraculously though, Miji was able to get the car to Gurvantes and have some more stuff welded to the undercarriage to keep the various parts in place and it is now possible to use it if one drives slowly and carefully. 

    Provided that we can get the car to Ulaanbaatar, we will repair it and sell it, we'll see what happens on the trip... and I thought it was an adventure to drive the car up to UB when it was in good shape last autumn. This means that I will go home [for break] a little sooner than planned but we need to get the car to UB.

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    Just how much scat do we need? http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=169 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:58:33 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=169 In fact, we're hoping to collect 200 snow leopard scat samples over summer. Kim, our Assistant Director of Science, is in Mongolia now collecting scat, and supervising numerous other projects. Kims says they swapped out Azati's collar, and that his old one is pretty beat up.

    "The rest of our field work is also going really well, despite some problems with our van.  It has been really hot (high 80s) for most of the past week and we've been working long days walking transects and putting out our cameras.  We've got 30 cameras out so far - 11 more to go.  My goal is to have them all out before I leave for Ulaanbaatar next week.  As of this morning we've collected 81 scat samples so we're well on our way towards fulfilling our poop quota of 200 samples for the summer."

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    Must-see VIDEO of Mother snow leopard with Cubs http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=170 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:11:53 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=170 You have to see this (from Koustubh Sharm, our Regional Field Biologist):

    Here are some pictures (converted into a short video!) of the snow leopards kittens that were photographed in our research site, less than a km from the base-camp. The spontaneous reaction of a loud YEAY was unanimous on seeing this pictures.  It seems that the female (leading the gang!) is our very first Eureka, who had apparently been ‘absconding’ ever since she was photographed for the first few times in the vicinity of the camp a year ago! Although we are not certain of the ID (we only had her left flanks photographed last year!), we all at the camp thought that it is, based on her tail and rump patterns!  We hope to get more pictures of the family in the coming month once all the 41 cameras are deployed in the field! So much more in store from Mongolia as we enter our second year of the long-term research!

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    New cubs at Hogle Zoo in Utah http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=173 Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:01:07 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=173 Snow leopard fans in Utah: congrats to Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City on the birth of a snow leopard cub to parents Himesh (male) and Nema (female) on May 7, 2009. The male snow leopard cub has been bonding with his mother behind the scenes but made his public debut on the 16th. Hope to have pix soon.

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    Video treat: Cubs playing http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=174 Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:26:43 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=174 Welsh Mountain Zoo has two new twin cubs, born on Thursday 28th May 2009. They are now starting to emerge from their den. They are the fist cubs born in Wales, and they are the first for parents Otilia and Szechuan. Here is a video of them from the zoo.

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    An Open Letter to Trust Supporters http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=177 Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:01:36 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=177

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Dr. Charu Mishra, our Science and Conservation Director, has written an impassioned, timely letter to supporters of the Trust.  Looking toward the future of snow leopard conservation with a measured optimism, Mishra makes a compelling case for both science and innovative research to better understand the cats, and also for more community-based solutions that invite these cat's human neighbors to assist us - the kind of out-of-the-box solutions that the Trust has employed successfully in the past.  Mishra reflects on the recent tragedy of Bayartai, a collared cat shot dead by a herder, and how it has shed light on a wide spectrum of our conservation work: the incident goes far beyond the cat and the herder, he argues.  We've experienced a setback, but we've also been given plenty of food for thought as we face difficult new challenges, and rethink old challenges.  Charu's detailed letter is an exciting testament to importance of conservation work, and well worth reading for anyone interested in protecting endangered species.

    You can read his letter here.

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    VOTE: Superman vs. Eureka http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=175 Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:51:30 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=175  

    Telling snow leopards apart is very challenging. Especially when you can't see them in person. Last year, our team took a photo of a female snow leopard named Eureka.

    Another snow leopard also appeared on film. Our team thought it was a male and nicknamed him Superman.

    Then in June 2009, one of the cameras photographed a mom with three cubs. We were ecstatic. Initially, from her spots, the mom looked like Eureka.

    But then, the team analyzed the photographs more thoroughly. And it turned out that the snow leopard we thought was Eureka is actually Superman, and Superman is a Supermom!

    Try your hand at telling Superman and Eureka apart. Below are photographs of each snow leopard. Can you tell which one is Eureka?

    Which snow leopard is Eureka?
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    175 2009-07-24 09:51:30 2009-07-24 16:51:30 open open vote-can-you-tell-which-snow-leopard-is-which publish 0 0 post 2447 floridapotter@yahoo.com http://www.bigcatrescue.org 173.169.67.108 2009-08-08 03:18:45 2009-08-08 10:18:45 Blessings to Supermom and to you guys for all that you do to help this very special species... 1 0 2452 g8o8t8@yahoo.com 76.220.28.197 2009-08-08 13:11:05 2009-08-08 20:11:05 What the beautiful creature. Hope they are always around. 1 0 2455 susanskiba@yahoo.com 71.58.55.171 2009-08-08 14:55:28 2009-08-08 21:55:28 I love the videos and "interactive" articles in your e-newsletter! Susan Houser 1 0 2529 admin@maulnet.ru http://spyhistory.ru 82.55.89.119 2009-08-14 09:28:58 2009-08-14 16:28:58 http://spyhistory.ru - Идеальный вариант spam 0 2458 americangrl1992@yahoo.com 64.53.46.200 2009-08-08 17:26:44 2009-08-09 00:26:44 It looks like Eureka's spots are darker and skinnier than Superman/Supermom's. They're both absolutely gorgeous! 1 0 2479 blue_uncia@yahoo.com 82.168.164.91 2009-08-09 23:43:17 2009-08-10 06:43:17 It's really a guess on my part, but, basing myself on the tail patterns, I think the one on the left is Eureka. The one on the right appears to have very solid black spots on the side of its tail, which seemed absent from the top photograph of Eureka. But it's still very much a guess. XD 1 0 2508 turtewinds@care2.com 24.183.3.92 2009-08-12 21:02:52 2009-08-13 04:02:52 I just want to hug one. Either one. But my guess is the one on the left. If you can tell...more power to ya! Thanks for all you do! Keep it up. 1 0
    Back in Sweden http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=178 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:48:43 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=178 ]]> 178 2009-07-30 08:48:43 2009-07-30 15:48:43 open open back-in-sweden publish 0 0 post “Snow Leopard” Skiier Heads to World Championships in France http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=179 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:30:16 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=179 purchase a leopard spot on Kwame's Olympic uniform. A £5.00 donation entitles you to a space of 1cm X 4cm. For every £5.00 donation made, £1.00 will donated to one of three non-profit organizations - the Snow Leopard Trust is one of your options. We wish Kwame the best of luck, and look forward to following his Olympic adventure. Kwame poses in uniform]]> 179 2009-07-30 09:30:16 2009-07-30 16:30:16 open open kwame-heads-to-world-championships-in-france publish 0 0 post 2572 arshav@bk.ru http://arsenalfan.ru/ 140.239.56.38 2009-08-18 10:27:42 2009-08-18 17:27:42 Клёво, мне понравилось! ;) spam 0 2577 kosmonavt-77@mail.ru http://1mbit.ru/ 207.44.255.162 2009-08-18 23:15:51 2009-08-19 06:15:51 "Спасибо за такой пост" spam 0 2575 hitech.86@mail.ru http://hitech-world.net/ 141.223.237.76 2009-08-18 17:30:53 2009-08-19 00:30:53 жжот)) spam 0 Your can name a snow leopard cub http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=180 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:27:25 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=180 You can help name one of the two cubs born recently at Woodland Park Zoo. Vote for your favorite name here. Voting ends August 12, 2009.

    On August 15, 2009, from 9-3 pm, the Snow Leopard Trust will be hosting its 3rd Annual International Snow Leopard Day, an event to raise awareness for the endangered snow leopard. International Snow Leopard Day takes place at Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, WA (USA) and features talks, music, kids activities, and more. International Snow Leopard Day is free with Zoo admission.

    In May, two snow leopard cubs were born at Woodland Park Zoo to mother Helen, named after the Snow Leopard Trust's founder, Helen Freeman. The public will get to view the cubs for the first time on International Snow Leopard Day, and the results of the voting will be announced.

    If you would like to know more about this event, or find out how you can host an event to help the Snow Leopard Trust protect snow leopards in the wild, send an email to gina@snowleopard.org.

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    2-Minute Video: What you need to know about snow leopards in Kyrgyzstan http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=181 Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:45:31 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=181 Watch this captivating 2-minute video by Dr. Tom McCarthy about snow leopards in Kyrgyzstan (click here for larger version on YouTube). Share it with friends and help us spread the word about the need to protect snow leopards. You really can make a huge difference. Join the Trust in helping to end snow leopard poaching range-wide. Right now we have an amazing New Donor drive going: if you are a new donor, the Geyer Trust will match your donations one-for-one, until we reach our $25,000 goal.

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    But when people think about Mac OS X Snow Leopard we hope they don't forget about the amazing cat that inspired it's name. While the real snow leopard roams in the shadows, we hope it doesn't get overshadowed by the buzz about "Snow Leopard."

    Please help us continue to spread the word about snow leopard, the endangered species. One great way to do that is to send our new video to everyone you know who loves animals, and to post it on your blog if you have one. Or encourage friends with blogs to post it on theirs. You may also have some other ideas of your own for spreading the word, so tell us by making comments on this post.

    We are really pleased that Apple has invited our Executive Director, Brad, to do a talk at Apple headquarters about our snow leopard conservation programs. Also, Orjan (who works on our Mongolia research project), will be participating in an Apple event in Sweden. Recently a partner of Apple involved with Mac OS X Snow Leopard has stepped forward to help the Snow Leopard Trust, realizing that through their skills and support they can make a real difference for snow leopard conservation.

    All these activities and our ongoing efforts will continue to help inform many more people around the world about the plight of the endangered snow leopard, but we need your help: please do all you can to help the real snow leopard leap forward! 

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    183 2009-08-07 15:06:43 2009-08-07 22:06:43 open open will-the-real-snow-leopard-please-leap-forward publish 0 0 post 2501 babyleopard@zoobuh.com 208.42.19.245 2009-08-12 10:33:27 2009-08-12 17:33:27 hi!!! what is mac OS X snow leopard? my favorite animal is a leopard!!! emma 1 0 2502 105@nik.345.pl http://buyviagra-cheap.org 89.149.244.89 2009-08-12 10:57:19 2009-08-12 17:57:19 Распечатываю… на стенку в самое видное место!!! spam 0 2453 jsoos@mac.com 66.183.105.69 2009-08-08 13:28:53 2009-08-08 20:28:53 Hello from Vancouver. Thanks for bringing this topic to our attention. I am pleased to read that Apple is beginning to establish links between the launching of the new version of OS X and efforts to conserve the snow leopard. As a Mac user too, I think Apple should go much farther, and have a substantive and very clear strategy of incorporating the efforts to protect the real snow leopard with the launching of the Snow Leopard operating system. Perhaps Snow Leopard Trust can spear-head a campaign where every new purchase of the Snow Leopard operating system would result in Apple donating a portion of sales to the Snow Leopard Trust. Even 1 or 2% of each OS bought would be much appreciated. Also, you could place a flyer, or perhaps a badge in each new operating system purchased. Buyers of Apple's Snow Leopard could be invited to also help sponsor a real snow leopard with a contribution to the Snow Leopard Fund. 1 0 2463 snow_chaty@yahoo.com 88.147.40.48 2009-08-09 01:07:31 2009-08-09 08:07:31 = snow leopards mouse pads to go with the new computer program = snow leopards umbrellas, these will be in use every single day in one country or another and thus spread awareness of the snow leopard's existence 1 0 2443 sierraphotographic@mac.com http://www.SierraDesignSolutions.com 63.226.198.92 2009-08-07 20:16:22 2009-08-08 03:16:22 get Apple to donate a portion of sales ... team w/Apple on the T-Shirt design & marketing blitz Apple usually does for a release "party" ... put donation cards w/each box or as POP ... ride the Apple wave ... I'll post the video to my blog ... 1 0 2444 gilia_angell@earthlink.net http://tapirs.org 216.231.34.22 2009-08-07 22:46:52 2009-08-08 05:46:52 I've wondered the same thing about the Snow Leopard OS, and if/how Apple intends to commemorate its namesake with a gesture of goodwill. I'm glad to hear there's been communication and a start of financial and skills support from the company and its partners. May this lead to new support and reknown for SLT. 1 0 2510 109@nik.345.pl http://www.thaidreams.ru 89.149.244.89 2009-08-13 02:10:34 2009-08-13 09:10:34 блеск spam 0 2511 sibyllenoras@yahoo.com.au http://www.snowleopardblog.com 60.240.230.6 2009-08-13 02:31:58 2009-08-13 09:31:58 Great news to hear that Brad will do a talk about snow leopard programs and the work of the Snow Leopard Trust in the 'lair' of the new OS at Apple headquarters. This will give the Apple team themselves an opportunity to come up with ideas about how they can help the real snow leopard leap forward - let's challenge and encourage them to do that. Go Brad! Meanwhile we can all encourage our MAC user friends to learn about and support snow leopard conservation through this opportunity. Sibylle www.snowleopardblog.com spam 0 2469 85@nik.345.pl http://promising.ru 89.149.244.89 2009-08-09 10:36:40 2009-08-09 17:36:40 Даа… Достаточно спорно, поспорил бы с автором… spam 0 2470 webmastack@mail.ru http://www.webmastack.ru/ 195.88.33.144 2009-08-09 11:47:19 2009-08-09 18:47:19 Читаешь это и думаешь.... spam 0 2471 roanime@mail.ru http://www.ro-db.ru/ 195.88.33.144 2009-08-09 12:58:45 2009-08-09 19:58:45 их больше было О_о spam 0 2488 mark.gadzhideran@mail.ru http://www.golden-egg.ru/ 195.88.33.144 2009-08-10 14:40:52 2009-08-10 21:40:52 Я отметила отлично :) нацепила на голову тыкву и бегала по улице. spam 0 2487 spiffy-86@mail.ru http://spiffy.ru/ 195.88.33.144 2009-08-10 13:41:02 2009-08-10 20:41:02 Познавательный он-лайн журнал о стиле рекомендует познакомиться со статьями и материалами про шоппинг. Наши фотографии скрасят процесс чтения и принесут удовольствие. Наш сайт регулярно обновляется и мы размещаем новые статьи и фотографии. spam 0 2490 ryablya@mail.ru http://www.dichcook.ru/ 195.88.33.144 2009-08-10 15:45:34 2009-08-10 22:45:34 Я от них безума! spam 0 2450 DBrinkmeyer@yahoo.com 75.219.136.211 2009-08-08 08:02:57 2009-08-08 15:02:57 Has Apple been approached about making a donation to the Snow Leopard Trust for every Snow Leopard operating system they install or sell? I assume someone in the Seattle office has thought of this. Great marketing tool for Mac and for SLT. Donna D. Brinkmeyer 1 0 2515 alevtin.ilyasov@mail.ru http://qitur.ru/ 195.88.33.144 2009-08-13 07:49:12 2009-08-13 14:49:12 хм...ну это памойму уже крайность... spam 0 2514 sovremen@list.ru http://www.moderncook.ru/ 195.88.33.144 2009-08-13 06:50:19 2009-08-13 13:50:19 "мысли здравые, но тяжело читать, не знаю почему" spam 0
    FAQ http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?page_id=184 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:25:28 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?page_id=184 About the GPS Radio Collars Are there better ways to study snow leopards without having to capture and collar them? There are other ways. The Snow Leopard Trust has spent a lot of time and resources to develop what we call “non-invasive” techniques such as trap-cameras and genetics using feces. We can learn a lot from those, in particular we can get a population estimate from both methods because both allow us to identify individuals. Cameras let us look at unique spot patterns, and fecal genetics gives us a DNA fingerprint that allows individual identification. But there is a lot we can not learn this way, such as home range size, fine scale habitat use, dispersal, activity patterns and seasonal movements. These are critical pieces of information if we are to conserve them. How big should a protected area be to save a viable population of snow leopards? Without knowing how much habitat even one cat requires, we cannot answer that question. When we collared the snow leopard Bayad in 2006 in Pakistan, we learned that she spends half her year in Afghanistan. Hence, for example, we need to consider protected corridors between core use areas in two different countries. Other information we need to know is what happens to sub-adults when they leave the mother? How far do they go to set up their own territory? What percentage of those survive? These answers will help us know if snow leopards can naturally rebuild their populations in areas where they have been heavily poached. Do the collars stand out? Within a week or two the collars are buffed up on rocks, etc. Whatever color they start, they don’t keep for long. They also get very dusty and dirty and are close to the beige color of the cat. Why is this research important now? Human populations are expanding rapidly and despite the fact that snow leopards live in some of the most remote and rugged mountain ranges on Earth, their habitat is being severely impacted by humans. Most people living in snow leopard habitat are poor herders whose livestock are often eaten by snow leopards. They kill snow leopards in retaliation. Extensive livestock grazing also degrades pastures that wild sheep and goats depend on, this reduces the availability of wild prey for snow leopards. Mining and, to a lesser extent, timber harvest also impact many parts of snow leopard range. And of course snow leopards continue to be illegally poached for their very valuable hides and bones. With all of these pressures on snow leopards, we believe we now need to become involved with their protection. And if we are to help them we must understand them, hence the research into their most basic ecological questions. Without that knowledge, our efforts to save them would be designed blindly and quite possibly be ineffective.

    The collar does seem bulky—does it hinder the cat at all? That is something we very carefully consider, and it is why it was a decade between our last large collaring project in Mongolia and our next in Pakistan. We were waiting for GPS-satellite collars to be reduced in size to where it would be appropriate for a snow leopard. There is a general rule of thumb that collars should not exceed 3% of the animal’s body weight. Our collars are about 1.56 lbs, so by that rule we could collar a 59 lb cat with thatThe cat in the film weighed 75 lbs, so the collar was only about 2.08% of her weight. Personally, I am much more concerned about the bulk of the collar than the weight. If it interferes with her being able to make a kill, then it doesn’t matter if it is 1%, 3%, or 5% of her weight! To estimate what a cat in the wild might react like, we tested these collars on a captive snow leopard in the Woodland Park Zoo here in Seattle. Before we placed the collar on the zoo cat, we had volunteers take behavioral observations every 20 seconds for 6 hours a day for 3 weeks. We then repeated that for 3 weeks after the collar was on. That amounted to over 45,000 behavioral observations. We watched specifically for any indication that she was irritated by the collar, or was attempting to remove it. We observed no change at all in behavior and never saw her try to remove it or show any indication she was even aware of it. But she doesn’t have to chase or kill her food. So this may not tell us all we would like to know about how it affects snow leopards in the wild. But the many hours of BBC film we have reviewed indicates the snow leopard in the wild similarly showed no adverse effects to the collar. In general, if there were any indication the collars were harming a cat in any way, we would not use them, or would remove them immediately if an animal showed signs of stress.

    I have had collars on 7 snow leopards in the wild between 1993 and today, and the collars were on those cats from 1 to 5 years each. All of those cats lived past when the collars were dropped, and even had cubs during the time they were collared. On the rare occasions they were observed they seemed to be in excellent health. Hence, it seems they had not been hampered by the collars in gaining food and living a normal life.

    They put GPS collars on tiny birds, why does the snow leopard collar have to be so large? The collar size is most directly related to battery needs and signal output. The animal’s body absorbs some of the outgoing radio signal used to send data to the satellites. To generate a signal strong enough to overcome that and be heard from a satellite, a ½ watt signal is required. To run the GPS unit and gain locations several times a day, process and save the data, send it to a satellite a few times each month, and also be sending a VHF radio signal so we can locate it from the ground if needed, requires a lot of battery power. To do all of that for 12 or 13 months and make it so we don’t have to recapture the cat frequently to replace the collar, the smallest package possible is the one we are using. We are constantly evaluating new collar and battery designs to reduce the size and weight.  If BBC could learn so much about the cat just by being patient and watching her from afar, why can’t you do that? Actually, what the BBC film team learned was confined to the cat’s behavior that they could see from one small patch of a hillside, next to a road, where she comes each December and January. They had no idea where she went or how she lived at any other time of the year, even when she was laying just a few hundred feet from a herder’s home very near to where they normally filmed her. That scene, as filmed by BBC, was only possible due to her collar. Because of her collar, we were able to track her to that site and inform the film team. They certainly had no idea she went as far as Afghanistan on a regular basis. The snow leopard in the film was a very unusual cat, and may be the only one ever known to routinely spend time in full view of humans along a very well-used road. Snow leopards in general are far too secretive and elusive to study by direct observation no matter how patient you are. From 1998 until 2006 I spent about half of every year in snow leopard habitat looking for sign, setting out cameras, collecting feces, and counting prey. During those 8 years I never saw one snow leopard. Does placing collars stress the animal? The animal must be lightly sedated during radio-collaring. This is necessary not only to ensure the safety of our field crew but also to minimize the stress to the captured animal from being in close proximity to humans. The drugs we use have undergone extensive testing for safety on captive animals in controlled settings such as zoos and animal parks before being used on free-ranging cats. In addition, the drugs we select have a wide margin of safety in terms of dosage, meaning the chances of an overdose are virtually non-existent. As with any other animal, wild or domestic, there is a slight risk any time anesthesia is administered. Although rare, it is possible for an animal to have an allergic response to the drugs. In addition, there is some risk associated with administering anesthesia to a very old or sick animal, if its heart is weak or its liver or kidney function is already compromised. In situations such as this, the animal may not be able to metabolize the drugs properly, and it is possible that it could die. However, if an animal is in such poor condition that it cannot tolerate anesthesia, it is very likely that will not survive much longer independent of being radio-collared. As for the deaths of the cheetah and jaguar, heard lately in the news, it is impossible for us to comment without knowing any of the details surrounding the captures or the animals’ condition first hand; anything we would say would simply be idle speculation. Any time a handled animal is lost it is a very sad situation and a tragedy felt personally by the researchers involved. As a conservation organization working to secure the survival of this magnificent species, it is our responsibility to see that all possible steps are taken to ensure animal safety, and that the information we are gathering through our research will be used to the fullest extent possible to enhance snow leopard conservation. Back to Top How the Traps Work   The words "snare" and "trap" are used a lot in this blog. Sometimes, the word trap is used to describe "trap cameras," which are just hidden cameras that capture photos on the sly using infrared technology. Other times, it does mean a device for retaining a snow leopard. Here is what you need to know about traps/snares: Other than snares, there really is no other reliable or safe way to capture snow leopards. They will not go into box traps or cages of any kind. Other researchers have tried that in the past, and even placed meat or live bait inside. The leopards that came to the trap walked around it many times, but always departed without going in, despite the free meal being offered. The snares/traps being used are built with several safety features. First, the snare loop that actually holds the animal’s leg has a lock on it that prevents it from over-tightening. The snare cable is of a diameter that will not cut the cat’s skin. Also, it can only close to about the diameter of the cat’s foreleg and no farther. So the loop gets small enough to not slide off over the paw, but can’t close tight enough to damage the leg or cut off circulation. We then place one or more swivels between the leg loop and the cable that holds it to a tree or other anchor. The swivels allow the animal to roll over freely without tangling the cable, which could break the cable or tangle the animal. One of the most important safety features is a large spring that is between the leg lop and the anchor. This allows the animal to pull against it and only meet with flexible resistance, not a solid jolting stop which could injure its leg. Sensors accompany the snares to alert researchers as soon as a snow leopard is caught, so that they can immediately attend to the cat. Back to Top Where is Base Camp The J. Tserendeleg Snow Leopard Research Center--aka, the base camp for our long-term study of snow leopards is in Mongolia’s South Gobi Province, in the Tost mountains, approximately 250 km west of the provincial capital of Dalanzadgad. This is some of the best snow leopard habitat in Mongolia. Back to Top Who's Who Who is at base camp right now (2009):

    • Orjan is a PhD student from Sweden. He bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at our base camp.
    • Mije is the camp caretaker.
    • Oyuna is the camp cook.
    • Friday is the camp's new house cat. He is an excellent hunter and is helping with the hamster problem.
    • Meg McNabb is a professional veterinarian from Seattle, WA. She works at an emergency veterinary practice and also is a relief vet for our conservation Partner, Woodland Park Zoo.
    Important people who come and go from base camp regularly:
    • Dr. Tom McCarthy is Managing Director of Field Programs for the Snow Leopard Trust. He leads the long-term project in Mongolia.
    • Dr. Kim Berger is Assistant Director of Science for the Snow Leopard Trust
    • Pursee is a field biologist for the Snow Leopard Trust. He works as a teacher in Ulaanbaatar when he is not at camp.
    • Pujii is a Masters student from Mongolia who is working on occupancy estimates. She studies in Minnesota and will go back to the US in early September.
    • Namshur, is a Mongolian vet and handyman. He has built a super-nice shower and some very impressive shoehorns of ibex horn
    • Biamba is the driver
    • Dr. Koustubh Sharma is Regional Field Biologist for the Snow Leopard Trust.
    • Benji, Oyuna and Mije's daughter. She goes to school in Dalandzadgad
    People who were working at camp, but have left:
    • Juan is a research student from Argentina
    • Chris Waltzer is an Austrian vet who works in Austria, and has worked with cheetah in Iran and with wild ass, wild camels and Przewalskis horse in Mongolia.
    • Ashley Spearing is a British researcher who helped collar the snow leopard Bayad in Pakistan.
    • Guy Balme works for the non-profit organization, Panthera, and is renowned for his insight and skills with safely trapping large cats.

     

    Back to Top Who is Orjan

    Orjan Johansson is a wildlife biologist. He is a Research Associate at the GriMSo Wildlife Research Station in Riddarhyttan Sweden and is pursuing his PhD working with snow leopards in Mongolia. In fact, he bought a one-way ticket to work at the base camp. He has extensive field experience working with large carnivores (wolf, lion, mountain lion, etc.), and has been using GPS-collars in his research for many years.

    Orjan writes to the Snow Leopard Trust in the United States on an almost weekly basis via satellite phone, and his blog entries are a running diary of his thoughts and experiences.

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    Snow Leopards Near You http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?page_id=187 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:51:29 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?page_id=187 Want to see a snow leopard up close? The following map will show you where to find the nearest zoo that is home to a snow leopard. Click on the highlighted regions to see zoos with snow leopards. The zoos with yellow placemarks are members of our Natural Partnerships Program. View Larger Map]]> 187 2009-08-13 13:51:29 2009-08-13 20:51:29 open open snow-leopards-near-you publish 0 0 page DONATE http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?page_id=188 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:52:28 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?page_id=188 188 2009-08-13 13:52:28 2009-08-13 20:52:28 open open donate publish 0 0 page Blog is Changing http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=189 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:57:22 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=189 Over the next few weeks we are upgrading our blog. You might notice a few changes as we switch to a format that is easier to use, easier to read, easier to search, and just plain better. Thank you for your patience!

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    Snow Leopards on KUOW radio 94.9 FM (podcast 53 min 59 seconds) http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=190 Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:04:57 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=190 Conservation Seen Through Snow Leopard Eyes 8/14/09 Weekday with Steve Scher KUOW 94.9 FM radio in Seattle [Listen to Podcast] What conservation efforts are being made? Why does it matter? How are large conservation issues like this addressed? How is our local community involved? Find out the answers by listening to this podcast. Guest(s) Sy Montgomery is a naturalist, author and radio commentator. For her latest book "Saving the Ghost of the Mountain: An Expedition Among Snow Leopards in Mongolia," Sy spent three weeks in Mongolia's Altai Mountains searching for signs of snow leopards. Lisa Dabeck is director of field conservation at Woodland Park Zoo. Dr. Kim Murray is assistant director of science for the Snow Leopard Trust. She just returned from a month in the Mongolia camp, where the largest study of collared snow leopards is underway. While she was there, she recaptured the leopard Aztai and fitted him with a new collar. Pat Owen is a collection manager at the Woodland Park Zoo.]]> 190 2009-08-17 14:04:57 2009-08-17 21:04:57 open open snow-leopards-on-kuow-radio-949-fm-podcast-53-min-59-seconds publish 0 0 post enclosure http://www.kuow.org/multi.asx 612 video/x-ms-asf enclosure http://www.kuow.org/real.ram 86 audio/x-pn-realaudio Little Cub, Big Name: Your Votes Are in For New WPZ Snow Leopard http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=191 Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:27:26 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=191

     

    On Satruday, August 15, 2009, the Snow Leopard Trust held its third Annual International Snow Leopard Day at Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, WA. As we mentioned on this blog, you could vote for the name of the male cub. Over 35,000 people voted and the male cub has a new name: GOBI

    The Gobi is the larest desert in Asia. The Snow Leopard Trust is currently conducting snow leopard research in Mongolia's South Gobi province. The Gobi is a cold desert, and snow leopard are found in the mountains along the Gobi's range.

    Gobi's sister is named "Batu."

    International Snow Leopard Day was the cubs' first day meeting the public. You can see more photos of the cubs here.

    (snow leopard photo by Tracey Kidston 2009)

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    New Challenges For Snow Leopards Arise in Mongolia http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=192 Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:35:53 +0000 admin http://www.blog.snowleopard.org/?p=192 Twice this year, and possibly a third time, snow leopards have been captured or injured in steel-jaw leg-hold traps intended to capture wolves. The most recent incident occurred on July 5th when a herder arrived at the Snow Leopard Trust’s research camp to report a snow leopard caught in a wolf trap near his ger (yurt). Our research team arrived on the scene and found a badly wounded male snow leopard hiding in a cave with the trap still closed on its leg. Under difficult circumstances, the team sedated the cat (nicknamed ‘Itgel’, which means ‘hope’ in Mongolian), treated the wounds as best they could, and released the cat with a radio collar to monitor his recovery from, or loss to, the injuries. To date Itgel is still alive and moving according to locations received from his GPS collar. If the cat survives it will be an incredible recovery from a terrible set of injuries. At almost the same time the research team discovered that Aztai was missing a toe when they were replacing his collar, possibly from a close call with a leg-hold trap. The two incidents are in addition to the loss of Bayartai in January.

    While these incidents didn’t involve participants of the Trust’s Community Conservation Programs it is alarming to have these events occur over 7 months in areas bordering our programs. The Snow Leopard Trust is seeking to address the threats to snow leopards and other predators from these steel jaw leg-hold traps. The ranges of snow leopards and wolves overlap extensively, and we are seeing the damage caused by these horrible devices that trap animals indiscriminately. The issue is made more complex because the use of the traps to hunt wolves is currently legal in Mongolia. We have already begun the work necessary to understand where the traps are being used and the financial and legal issues involved in trapping wolves and other wildlife. While we wish for a simple solution, we know that any proposed program will be difficult because it must protect wildlife and have support from the local communities, whose financial security depends almost wholly on their livestock. We are confident that we will be able to find a solution to this issue and we will keep you up to date on Itgel’s progress and our efforts to solve this complex problem.

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