Most of what we know
about snow leopard habitat and the way the cats live in their habitat comes from the successful radio collar projects run by the Snow Leopard Conservancy and the Snow Leopard Trust.
With cub season coming up, here are 7 things you need to know
about snow leopard babies!
Conservationists in Pakistan have created a comic book
about snow leopards and the conflicts the cats can get into with humans.
Animated and passionate, Munkhtsog is always happy to talk
about snow leopards.
Not exact matches
Yes now she can babble mindlessly
about talking snakes, talking fiery bushes, big boats that held 250,000 species of beetle along with wooly mammoths and
snow leopards, guys that floated into the clouds in front of everyone (yet somehow the Jews and Arabs still just don't buy that he was the saviour), parted water / wine to water / walking on water / healing water, food from the sky....
That's essentially saying that a person shouldn't worry
about endangered species like the
snow leopard because its a person not a
snow leopard.
Combined with future work using remote cameras, scat - based DNA analysis and GPS collars, this project could reveal crucial information
about how far the
snow leopards travel in the area, how they interact within families and how fluctuations in available prey affect the cats.
Researchers found that past food - habit studies on
snow leopards could have been biased by the inclusion of non-target species in fecal analysis, potentially misinforming managers
about the prey requirements that allow
snow leopard populations to succeed.
I certainly hope Alaina will continue with more captive
snow leopard behavior studies, there is still so much we don't know
about these beautiful cats.
While we all hope and work towards keeping the
snow leopard alive in the wild zoo populations also have their role in helping to educate the public
about conservation of this and other endangered animals.
Snow Leopards enjoy
about any scent they encounter.
Always nice to read good news
about members of an endangered species, especially
snow leopards.
Express strong concern
about the increasing threats arising from growing human footprint and climate change to the survival of
snow leopards and associated mountain biodiversity and to the maintenance of watershed and ecosystem services their habitats provide;
In the wild of course,
snow leopards are solitary except for a short mating time and when cubs stay with their mother till adulthood at
about 2 years of age.
In the late 1970's
snow leopard breeding in zoos was more common but only
about 50 % of cubs survived to the age of six months.
Communicate to citizens and particular stakeholders, including local communities, youth, governments, civil society, and the private sector,
about the value of
snow leopards and their ecosystem, and sustain the effort by celebrating 23 October 23 each year as the International Snow Leopard Day with presentation of an annual International Snow Leopard Conservation Award, and 2015 as the International Year of the Snow Leop
snow leopards and their ecosystem, and sustain the effort by celebrating 23 October 23 each year as the International
Snow Leopard Day with presentation of an annual International Snow Leopard Conservation Award, and 2015 as the International Year of the Snow Leop
Snow Leopard Day with presentation of an annual International
Snow Leopard Conservation Award, and 2015 as the International Year of the Snow Leop
Snow Leopard Conservation Award, and 2015 as the International Year of the
Snow Leop
Snow Leopard.
Our Communications Manager Matt Fiechter recently traveled to Ladakh to learn more
about our ongoing community - based
snow leopard conservation programs — and follow the tracks of the elusive Ghost Cat.
I will attempt to learn more
about the effects of climate change on local ecosystems, and make use of data based on perceptions, livestock populations and rangeland experiments to aid
snow leopard conservation strategies.
We met local herders in their portable yurts and interviewed them
about their attitude towards
snow leopards and find out if they have seen any.
Still, we had a wonderful time, challenged ourselves in many ways, learned a lot
about this beautiful environment and the local people living there, and had contributed to
snow leopard conservation in this remote part of Russia.
This size was deemed appropriate allowing
about 2 camera stations per home range [22] since the mean minimum summer and annual ranges of
snow leopards in Tost are estimated to be c. 55 km2 and 70 km2, respectively for 9 adult breeding females using fixed Kernel estimators on 12,498 locations over a period of five years (Johansson et.
Two young collared
snow leopards illustrated this by dispersing to the nearby Nemegt Mountains after crossing
about 80 km of steppe.
Through our long - term ecological study in the Tost region of Mongolia, we are learning a great deal
about the lives of wild
snow leopards.
In simpler terms: Whether a herder feels threatened by
snow leopards may not necessarily tell us much
about the actual threat to his livestock.
A
snow leopard isn't thinking
about what muscles to flex, engage, suck in or tone when moving around.
Two
snow leopard cubs learn many lessons
about survival from their mother as they prepare for life on their own.
In this blog post and video below, she talks
about how she got into veterinary medicine, the kinds of things she does most commonly for pets and one of her favorite cases...
Snow Leopards!
The Wildlife Conservation Society on Tuesday released photographs of
snow leopards taken last month in the Wakhan Corridor region using automatically - triggered camera traps, a technology I've written
about in the past.
«It's not all
about ecology of conservation for
snow leopards, it's
about community,» he says.