Mongolia

Meeting Tom McCarthy, leader of long term snow leopard study

October 16, 2010 Mongolia

This week I caught up with Dr Tom McCarthy, the Snow Leopard program director for Panthera. Many of you will know Tom’s work in Mongolia, the first long term study of snow leopards in their wild habitat, which is having amazing success with the number of cats it is tracking in the mountains of the [...]

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Meeting Nadia, next generation snow leopard conservationist from Mongolia

October 12, 2010 Mongolia

“People in the cities in Mongolia don’t even know that we have snow leopards. I’d like to work with them as well as the village communities,” Nadia (Tserennadmid) Mijiddorj told me recently. She is a vibrant young woman determined to help save snow leopards in her country. I met her at the San Francisco Wildlife [...]

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Snow Leopard Trust Mongolia project follows footsteps of second female

September 10, 2010 Mongolia

The amazingly successful Snow Leopard Trust GPS collar project in Mongolia has another female to follow, joining young Zaraa. So far all the other cats that have been collared are males. This female is 36 kg and 115 cm in body length with a lovely 98 cm long tail and believed to be between 4 [...]

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Wild, fluffy like a hedgehog. 10th snow leopard in Mongolia study called Zaraa.

July 2, 2010 Mongolia
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The most recent member of the collared gang of snow leopards in the Snow Leopard Trust’s Mongolia project has got a name. When she was captured, the team, in the style of true scientists, called her F2 (she only the second female collared in the study out of ten cats). But now she’s been officially [...]

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Buy a goat, save a snow leopard. No more socks for presents.

May 31, 2010 Mongolia
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Sick of giving socks for presents? I know I’m sick of getting them. Well, not so much socks, not too many people give me those, but you know, those little gifts where people mean well, but you know that you’re never ever going to use the widget, gadget, thingumyjig. If that’s you, then what about [...]

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It’s a girl! 10th snow leopard collared in Mongolia project.

May 31, 2010 Mongolia
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The Snow Leopard Trust project in Mongolia has collared a tenth snow leopard and this time it’s a female which is great as the others have been male. Read about this amazing project, truly a world first in the number of cats collared and the huge amount of data being collected. Follow the cats on [...]

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9th wild cat joins the Snow Leopard Trust Mongolia study

May 7, 2010 Mongolia

On the 25th April the ninth snow leopard was collared in the Trust’s ongoing Mongolia study. He’s a male, weighing 34 kg and Orjan, the Swedish researcher working with the team thinks he’s about 2 years old. The new male is currently called M8 – a very unromantic research name – but he’ll be given [...]

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China arrests two Mongolians for smuggling snow leopard skins

May 2, 2010 China

Good to see Chinese authorities clamping down on the illegal snow leopard parts trade. A news story this week reports Chinese police arrested two Mongolian citizens after finding two snow leopard skins and a snow leopard skull hidden inside their jeep at a border checkpoint, state media said Tuesday.Police in the remote Alxa League of [...]

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Help Mongolia’s herdsmen and women in worst winter in decades

April 12, 2010 Mongolia

Mongolia has been going through a “dzud,” an extremely cold winter following a summer drought. According to the Mongolian government, an estimated 4.5 million animals have died across the country in the last few months, a huge blow to the herding community that makes up a large part of the population. A nomadic herdswoman in [...]

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Tracking snow leopards over 60km in Mongolia

April 12, 2010 Mongolia

This project is making snow leopard research history, no doubt about it. The Snow Leopard Trust continues to gather huge amounts of data with a new male cat collared in Mongolia on February 16th. The snow leopard, called M7 by the Trust team, has covered rugged terrain across mountains and made a kill. The team [...]

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