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Press Release — Seattle, WA, July 11, 2013 An international research team including members of the Snow Leopard Trust encounters a 2 - week - old wild snow leopard cub in its den; a rare glimpse of the first days in the life of these endangered, elusive cats.

We have never before encountered wild snow leopard cubs, and we are thrilled to share our experience with you.

Finding a wild snow leopard cub in its den is rare...

Wild snow leopard A snow leopard in its remote habitat, caught on camera trap in Kyrgyzstan.

Thanks to hourly GPS position uploads from tracking collars, researchers can reconstruct a day in the life of a wild snow leopard in unprecedented detail.

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.

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.

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

Nothing quite compares to the rush of excitement we all experience upon discovering a wild snow leopard cub on a photo taken by one of our research cameras.

Ladakh, the starkly beautiful high mountain desert in India's Jammu & Kashmir province, is one of the world's best places to see wild snow leopards.

Dagina, an eight - year old female snow leopard we've known since she was a tiny cub, becomes our latest cat to be tracked with a GPS collar in the world's most comprehensive study of wild snow leopards.

We just have to share this rare and amazing photograph of two wild snow leopards taken by a remote camera trap.

We often see agility, dance and play in snow leopards in zoos but this is the first time such a photograph has captured wild snow leopards and we congratulate the team at the Mongolia Snow Leopard Conservation Foundation and the Snow Leopard Trust who are doing long term camera trapping snow leopard conservation in the mountains of Mongolia.

Nowadays it is illegal to capture wild snow leopards but sometimes, although rarely it still happens, usually when villagers come across young cubs they assume to be in danger and capture them for what they believe is their own good.

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 order to protect wild snow leopards, we first need to understand where and how they live.

Not exact matches

They have got gazelles and wild asses and wild yaks, in the steep parts you've got ibex and snow leopards.

Himalayan herders are rewarded for setting aside pastures for wild sheep — a food source for snow leopards — and insuring against loss of their livestock.

Within that country's borders, in a park or residual wild area, are the last giant pandas or snow leopards, the last pockets of mountain gorillas or tigers, or the last migratory herd of a million wildebeests — something magnificent and acclaimed and sanctified.

A lot of old studies on what snow leopards eat are based on just that, collections that people have done in the wild,» said McCarthy.

In order to create effective conservation programs to help protect and conserve populations of endangered snow leopards, whose estimated population is between 4,500 - 7,500 in the wild, University of Delaware researchers are studying their scat to try and understand what the large cats are eating.

As a result of non-target species possibly being included in past research studies, it has been thought that snow leopards — who lack an abundance of natural prey — consume great numbers of small mammals such as marmots, hares and pika, as well as wild ungulates, which are larger hooved animals such as ibex.

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.

Between 1960 and 1984 there were 141 snow leopards taken from the wild, many of them from the Soviet Union (now Russia).

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.

This is crucial information for estimating how many snow leopards there really are in the wild — and den visits are the only way to obtain it.

Snow leopards in the wild are solitary but some research done in the 80's showed captive cats may be more sociable than previously thought.

In 1960 there were 22 captive snow leopards in Europe and North America but by 1976 the population had increased to 167, many of them wild caught animals.

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.

Local people often have herds of domestic livestock driving wild sheep and goats (the snow leopard's main prey) out of the habitat area.

We were thrilled that ibex still inhabit this area as these wild goats are also snow leopard prey, sadly getting less common as years go by.

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.

Congratulations on all your work for the conservation of snow leopards and especially today the release of this rare and phenomenal video of three wild cubs.

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.

The goal of this comprehensive research is to understand the whole ecosystem in the study area of Tost; from the snow leopard at the top of the food chain down to its prey, both wild and domestic, and how these animals use vegetation and water sources.

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

And they cite success in the Indian Himalayas, where farmers leave land for wild sheep, upon which the snow leopards depend.

Their birth is great news because: «Snow leopards are among the world's most endangered big cats with an estimated 3,500 - 6,500 remaining in the wild.