In January 2008, Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi was 23 when he encountered three snow leopards in Spiti: a mother, her cub, and a sub-adult male beginning to make his way on his own. That night, Kullu bought livestock for a feast because the entire village …
The global distributional range of the snow leopard spans 12 Asian countries Source: International Snow Leopard Trust Snow leopards and humans go back a very long way, long before either existed in the current form. Around the time the snow leopards and …
His Mongolian name is Angarag, which means Mars. To our researchers, he's simply M24. But simple is the wrong word for this cat. He's the 24th male snow leopard collared in our long-term ecological study in the mountains of Tost, Mongolia. He was …
Falling for Snow Leopards Eight years ago, Sue Heim began training as an interpretive volunteer at the San Diego Zoo. Snow leopards and Amur leopards were the first big cats she learned about. Young snow leopards caught her attention immediately. She …
The Question My Father Could Not Answer More than twenty years ago, when I began working with herding communities in Mongolia’s snow leopard landscapes, I arrived with enthusiasm, ideas, and conservation goals. We wanted to reduce threats to snow leopards …
A single male can range over more than a thousand square kilometers in the course of his life. An animal like this is rarely seen and is difficult to count. For most of the history of trying to count this species, the honest answer has been that nobody …
Snow leopards are built to hunt prey far larger than themselves. Long-term research in Mongolia is revealing what they eat, how often they hunt, which prey they target, and how those choices shape both snow leopard survival and coexistence with people. Our …
FALSE – Flash floods, disease outbreaks, droughts and other climate disasters are already causing significant losses to lives, livestock and livelihoods. Additionally, these catastrophic weather events can result in altered human-wildlife interactions and …
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 …
Working closely with police and fellow rangers, Aibek* coordinated an operation to intercept and apprehend the sellers. The snow leopard had been trapped and killed inside the boundaries of a protected area, where these endangered cats should have been …
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 New Cats F21(yellow on the map below) has been a familiar face on our camera traps every year since 2021. Our team was able to GPS-collar her for the first time a few weeks ago. We know she had cubs in 2024, and the second new addition to our study is …
The goitered gazelle (Procapra subgutturosa) is a medium-sized antelope native to the grasslands and semi-deserts of Asia. These animals are highly mobile, roaming and migrating across vast landscapes. This nomadic lifestyle makes them both fascinating and …
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, …
Field Update from May 8 It was cold to begin with, but with a bit more than a week left of this spring’s field season, it’s getting uncomfortably warm to hike uphill. The good news is we’ve collared two snow leopards. The not-so-great news is we’ve …
Most people grew up watching Sir David Attenborough. I didn’t. Which is perhaps why my early memory of the natural world doesn’t come from television. It comes from a place. A river cutting through the Himalaya. I remember its force and its scale. Growing …
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 …
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