Not exact matches
It was one of the most remote places I've
ever been, with
wild, beautiful, and rugged nature, where it would be warm and sunny one minute, and cold and
snowing the next.
It's a rare occurrence indeed: there may be fewer than 4,000
snow leopards left in the
wild, and this was only the fourth time researchers have
ever been able to observe
wild cubs in their den.
For us, this means we need to work harder than
ever to secure abundant
wild prey, so that
snow leopard moms don't come into conflict with herders over livestock losses — one of the biggest threats to
snow leopards across their range.
It is, and we must address it, just as we must address the threat posed by all invasive species that stifle threatened local native species - both introduced ones like cats, rats, foxes, rabbits, pigs, mynah birds (I've given up hoping cattle and sheep farming will
ever be addressed, and I've had the Man From Snowy River quoted at me often enough by misty eyed horse lovers to know the
wild brumbies must continue to run free and destroy the mountain country for everything else before dying a horrible, slow death from starvation in the cold, Winter
snow) and native ones like noisy miners and eastern rosellas.
Once we find them, we'll tack on a hard, five - mile paddle to Patterson Glacier — where we may be the first people
ever to beach at the foot of this enormous,
wild, windswept slab of ice and
snow in Southeast Alaska.