Sentences with phrase «snow leopard»

With this, we created the first estimates for snow leopard prey populations.

A conservation catch 22: Increasing the number wild prey animals is key for healthy snow leopard populations.

Generally, my vision is to empower and enrich conservation awareness among local people in snow leopard habitat and the general public.

This camera took hundreds of photographs, capturing one of the most precious moments seen in snow leopard conservation.

To the left is a map that illustrates how our team was able to locate a wild snow leopard den on a previous den visit in 2012.

Our research in the area has proven that it's an important habitat for the endangered snow leopard and its prey species.

For the first time, governments in all 12 snow leopard range countries are coming together to agree actions to conserve these big cats and their habitat.

We evaluate these programs based on how well they protect snow leopard habitat, wild prey species, and the cats themselves.

Everyone is intrigued by snow leopard habitat because home for these cats is such remote and rugged locations.

This all looks so good together and I love the unique snow leopard print!

To accomplish this, we partner with communities sharing snow leopard habitat areas through programs that benefit both people and wildlife alike.

But the more - illuminating information comes from in - depth interviews with 42 snow leopard experts across all 12 range countries.

We found no evidence in support of models assuming variation in survival probability, indicating that snow leopard survival probability did not vary over the years (Table 2).

There's been a lot of work to understand snow leopard behaviour.

The range area is only around 10,000 square kilometres representing 0.5 % of the total snow leopard global range.

You can use snow leopard, which has cooler tones than traditional leopard print.

Sometimes the same snow leopard is seen on multiple cameras, giving us a unique look into their personality and behavior.

Given our commitment to present and future generations, we must act now with resolution and authority to protect and recover snow leopard populations and their fragile habitats for all people to enjoy.

Promoting snow leopard conservation serves a broader purpose than simply saving one endangered species.

Recently snow leopard scientists have found some evidence that suggests the big cats may be more common than previously thought.

· The development of an international snow leopard friendly cashmere industry is being explored.

The degree to which each threat is harming snow leopard populations varies in different countries but the endangered species faces the same problems and challenges everywhere.

Through a series of interview and portraits, we would like to shine a light on some of the many conservation heroes who work tirelessly to save the endangered snow leopard.

Encourage meaningful participation of industry and the private sector in snow leopard conservation.

Local people who live in villages in the mountains and share snow leopard habitat tend to live below 3000 meters for these reasons.

Their numbers appear stable - and just sufficient for now to sustain the area's snow leopard population.

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

His pioneering work includes equipping 23 individual snow leopards with GPS collars, and publishing groundbreaking papers on how these cats use their habitat or how frequently they kill prey.

Scientists often spend days tracking rare animals such as snow leopards or orangutans for samples of DNA, for instance from hair or faeces, to understand their movements, monitor their populations and propose ways to protect them.

The den visit was part of the ongoing long - term ecological study on snow leopards in Mongolia's South Gobi province that's been conducted by the Snow Leopard Conservation Foundation, Snow Leopard Trust, and the Mongolian Academy of Sciences since 2008.

In fact, with many of the world's predators, from snow leopards and tigers to polar bears, dwindling — some species to the point of extinction — similar reintroduction efforts have been called these animals» last, best hope.

While studying snow leopard scat is one of the least invasive ways to look at what the animals are eating and gauge their food preferences, according to a new UD study it may not always be the most accurate.

Through Snow Leopard Conservancy India Trust's handicraft development programme, women create products like snow leopard souvenirs from wool.

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.

However, assuming individuals that migrated permanently were lost from the study population (died), we estimated the life expectancy of adult snow leopards to be 5 years (95 % CI: 2.05 — 13.78 years).

This allowed us to get multiple pictures (range 1 to 115) of individual snow leopards for most captures (99 %) and on many occasions we were able to photograph combinations of face, tail, foreleg, hind leg, and / or flank during the same encounter (Fig. 3).

Two young collared snow leopards illustrated this by dispersing to the nearby Nemegt Mountains after crossing about 80 km of steppe.

Researchers from the Snow Leopard Trust have been able to locate and examine a pair of wild snow leopard cubs in their den in Mongolia.

«Change is everywhere where snow leopards live,» said World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Vice President Kate Newman at a recent Wilson Center event.

Young snow leopards showed a high probability of temporary emigration and immigration (0.6, SE + − 0.19 and 0.68, SE + − 0.32 before and after the age of 2 years) though not the adults (0.02 SE + − 0.07).

So I started with snow leopards at Great Gobi protected area as a field assistant.

We are conserving snow leopards in Mongolia for 20 years and since 2008 we see them more in the open.

Munkhtsog was born in western Mongolia and is founder of the Irbis (the word is Mongolian for Snow Leopard) Centre which supports snow leopard research and conservation.

How do people respond when snow leopards or wolves kill their livestock?

With cub season coming up, here are 7 things you need to know about snow leopard babies!

Field researchers conducting our long - term ecological study are watching the movements of our known female snow leopards with fingers crossed.

The Story: Set in an ancient Asian animal world, a panda named Po (Black) that dreams of being a Kung Fu master is seemingly mistaken to be the chosen one sent to protect the village from the evil snow leopard Tai Lung (McShane).

«We've got this concept of what snow leopard scat looks like and where it can be found, so we think we can go out and collect it.

A research camera in Mongolia's Tost Mountains captures amazing footage of a wild snow leopard mother and her three cubs!