Sentences with phrase «of snow leopards»

So, apart from extended naps and observations, how does a typical day in the life of a snow leopard look?

The first ever comprehensive book on the biology, behavior and conservation status of the snow leopard has just been published and I'm proud to be one of the nearly 200 authors.

With this information, we can better understand breeding patterns and the overall health of a snow leopard population within a particular habitat area.

The following animals have been found to be prey for the small population of snow leopards in Uzbekistan.

Evaluate and map the current status of key snow leopard populations and habitats to set baselines and indicators against which to assess future change, conduct economic valuation of snow leopard habitats, and intensify scientific research and monitoring to support future policy and action.

A team of researchers from our Chinese partner organization, Shan Shui, found signs of snow leopard presence in Sichuan's Ganzi Prefecture, an area that had last been surveyed 8 years ago.

In a foreword to the book, Gustavo Fonseca, GEF's Director of Programs, wrote: «GEF has a long history of supporting conservation of the snow leopard (Panthera uncia) and its habitat, having approved 24 total projects and invested nearly USD $ 100 million toward UNDP - implemented projects in all 12 range countries since 1991.

Uzbekistan has identified it has much work to do to protect their extremely small population of snow leopards and to stop the species becoming extinct in their country.

One of the main reasons for the decreasing number of snow leopards in the wild is that unfortunately humans have a negative impact on the snow leopard habitat.

In each grid cell we searched along saddles on the ridgelines, valley or cliff bases and near overhanging boulders for fresh signs of snow leopard presence such as urine spray markings and scrapes.

The GSLEP Program aims to ensure the long - term survival of the snow leopard in its natural ecosystem.

The first ever images of snow leopards in Uzbekistan were taken at this time and confirmed the presence of at least two snow leopards in this region, along with other large predators, lynx and bear.

«Cat scat: Research examines food habits of snow leopards.»

Uzbekistan represents the extreme western area of snow leopard range and the country has the smallest population of any of the range countries.

During the 1990's decade significant poaching of snow leopards occurred motivated by economic insecurity after the collapse of the former Soviet Union.

(Camera trap photo of a snow leopard on the Tibetan plateau (photo: Panthera)-RRB-

During the summer, two different cameras had captured photos of a group of snow leopards — a mother and her almost fully grown cubs.

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.

Certainly it accounts for the movie's grim components — a family of snow leopards chased from their home range by a stronger clan, forced to endure a harsh winter without access to familiar hunting grounds, a episode that ends harshly for the displaced mother, desperate to feed her cubs.

More highlights for us include the beautiful butterflies in the Malayan Woods Pavilion, as well as catching a glimpse of the snow leopard and Siberian tiger in the Eurasia area.

More encouragingly, illegal trade in the pelts seems to be declining in China, the country where 60 per cent of snow leopards live and historically the main market for skins.

It is a close relative of the snow leopard, which still lives on the plateau, says Xiaoming Wang of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, who is a co-author of the study.

After conducting genetic analyses, they discovered that the hemoglobin genes of snow leopards look and work pretty much the same as those in other cats, they report today in The Journal of Experimental Biology.

Interestingly, the diversity of snow leopard genome was nearly half that of the other Panthera species and slightly lower than that of the Tasmanian devil.

The researchers wanted to look at the problem in a blind fashion, comparing their data sets of what they believed to be snow leopards and what those supposed snow leopards ate with a data set of snow leopard scat that was confirmed through genetic analysis to be from actual snow leopards.

«When we started doing genetics on snow leopard feces to try and get at a different question, which was individual identification of snow leopards, we started realizing that a lot of what we picked up and thought was snow leopard scat was not.»

Guest blogger, Alaina Macri from Edinburgh Zoo recently studied the social behavior of snow leopards in Zoos.

Take firm action to stop poaching and illegal trade of snow leopards and other wildlife by adopting comprehensive legislation, strengthening national law - enforcement systems, enhancing national, regional, and international collaboration, and developing effective mechanisms to eliminate the illegal demand for snow leopard and other wildlife products.

Ensure that industry, mining, infrastructure, and rural development programs and projects are fully sensitive to the conservation needs of snow leopards and their ecosystems, do not adversely affect or fragment key populations or critical habitats, and employ wildlife - friendly design, offsets, and other mitigation tools.

Appreciate the support of the Global Environment Facility, Global Tiger Initiative, Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU), Snow Leopard Conservancy, Snow Leopard Trust, United Nations Development Programme, United States Agency for International Development, World Bank, World Wildlife Fund, and others for the cause of snow leopard conservation, and invite all interested stakeholders to expand partnerships to enhance the Program.

One of our donor - funded remote - sensor research cameras in Mongolia's Tost mountains has captured stunning, rare footage of a snow leopard mother with three small cubs.

It shows that this sliver of snow leopard habitat we're working to protect in Mongolia is a suitable home for this endangered cat, and could support a healthy population.»

of the snow leopards kittens that were photographed in our research site, less than a km from the base - camp.

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 Leopard.

Landrovers helped us cover the huge area of snow leopard territory on our survey.We'd drive across the steppe to valleys and then walk the hills to scan for animal sign.

Some parts of snow leopard habitat, such as the massifs of the Gobi Desert of Mongolia are virtually devoid of vegetation.

It has generated almost $ 1 million in total sales, and helps protect habitats that could be home to hundreds of snow leopards.

New estimates focused on areas described as» Snow Leopard Conservation Units,» covering only 44 percent of the snow leopard's extensive range (which extends over roughly 3 million km2 or 1,158,306 square miles) suggests that there may be between 4,678 and 8,745 snow leopards just in these units.

Jigmet Takpa: (Government of Jammu and Kashmir, India) Focused on evidence - based landscape - level conservation programs in Ladakh northern India, resulting in population recovery of snow leopard, Tibetan argali, gazelle and antelope, lynx, Pallas» cat, Tibetan and black - necked crane; introduced projects and technologies for local communities to regard wildlife as assets rather than threats.

This can notably impact local peoples» livelihoods, which leads to retaliatory killings of snow leopards (Jackson, Mishra, McCarthy, & Ale, 2010).

Rodney Jackson, Ph.D.: (Snow Leopard Conservancy) Conducted in - depth radio - tracking studies of snow leopards since the 1980s; dedicated to building local communities» capacity as key players in conserving the species.

· A programme has been launched in collaboration with the government of Kyrgyzstan and community rangers to help combat poaching of snow leopards at the national level.

Tom and I both learned a lot in the field collaring and doing telemetry of snow leopards.

Anu is a bit of a snow leopard celebrity.