Tanzin has watched this mountain long enough to know which slopes the cats prefer, which corridors they use to move between valleys, and where they are likely to be when the light comes up. By the time the tourists reach the ridge, cameras raised, breath …
Nobody Knew A single male can range over more than a thousand square kilometres in the course of his life. An animal like this is rarely seen and counted with difficulty. For most of the history of trying to count this species, the honest answer has been …
The snow-capped mountains of northern Pakistan are home to some of the world’s most elusive species, from the iconic snow leopard to wolves, bears, and ibex. Protecting them is no easy task. They roam vast, rugged landscapes, often at low densities, making …
The high-altitude valleys where snow leopards live are also home to farming communities with deep roots in the land. An award-winning study, co-authored by Kulbhushansingh Suryawansh, Director of our India program, and team members from the India program, …
SLE is an award-winning, conservation-focused handicrafts program built on a straightforward idea: women in communities living alongside snow leopards receive fair-wage opportunities to produce and sell handcrafted products, in exchange for a community …
Our team’s story with the pheasants formally began in 2020. At the time, I was an undergraduate student in India with a meandering set of interests, slowly finding my way towards conservation and ethology. In an effort to move towards this goal, I was …
April 23 is Pallas’s Cat Day! This small cat with a big attitude is a distant relative of our beloved snow leopard and lives in the same high mountain habitats. Because of this overlap, Snow Leopard Trust partners with the Royal Zoological Society of …
In addition to working with snow leopards, I also lead the lynx research in Sweden. By the mid-1900’s, large carnivores had been almost exterminated across Europe, with only small populations surviving in remote mountainous areas. The lynx in Sweden was no …
Snow Leopard Trust has expanded its conservation work to Nepal. Thanks to the generosity of our incredible supporters, we have been able to expand our reach into yet another critical snow leopard landscape. Over the past year, with the support of SLT’s …
In the end, his years caught up with him. In many parts of the world, large carnivores are killed by humans long before their bodies have a chance to simply wear out. The fact that this one survived to be considered elderly isn’t just luck. Experts say …
What began as a single visit grew into a decades-long partnership built on a radical but simple truth: lasting conservation is fundamentally about people. This partnership included a 20+ year informal mentorship of Cincinnati Zoo leadership by SORALO …
Updated February 2026. When are snow leopards old enough to breed? Based on data available from the wild, it appears that female snow leopards are ready to have their own cubs by age 3 or 4. Male snow leopards are likely sexually mature by age 2 or 3 but …
Our GPS collars work on a simple principle: they collect approximately 20 months of location data, then automatically drop off for retrieval. The result? Our research teams can gather precise data about the movement, ecology, and behavior of these elusive …
Decoding the first weeks of life: New data from snow leopard dens Last summer, our research team made history with two extraordinary visits to snow leopard dens, documenting five healthy cubs. These events are exceptionally rare; over nearly two decades of …
Here, life is shaped by the mountains, and generations of families have lived in harmony with the land and its wildlife. One of the area’s most treasured crafts is yak fiber doormats, and the skills to create them have been passed down through many …
A Desert Under Pressure Mongolia is home to one of the world’s largest remaining grasslands, where livestock herding has been the primary livelihood for millennia. However, these rangelands are facing a significant decline in quality, driven by the dual …
On a bitingly cold February afternoon in 2022, at -25 degrees Celsius, Kalzang Gurmet, field manager for Nature Conservation Foundation (NCF) in Spiti, sat cross-legged on a floor mattress in our unpretentious homestay. We were in Kibber, a high-altitude …
Results Dagina The Matriarch: You’re the backbone of your community, and everyone knows it. Like Dagina, who successfully raised many cubs across five litters in the harsh Mongolian desert, you have an incredible capacity for nurturing and protecting those …
Using GPS collar data, our team investigated the locations of GPS “clusters” where our collared cats spent extended time, often indicating a kill site or den. This year, for the first time, we analyzed clusters from F12 and F19, two females with young cubs …
After nearly two decades without a national-scale gathering, Mongolia's snow leopard community came together recently to address an urgent reality: the threats facing these cats have fundamentally changed, and so must the response. The National Forum …
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