Mongolia

Researchers back at work in Mongolia

February 10, 2010 Mongolia

Orjan is a Swedish PhD student working at the base camp of the Snow Leopard Trust’s long-term research project in Mongolia. Last year he blogged about his work capturing, collaring and collecting valuable data from five of the wild cats. The last few months he’s been away from the project but is now back for [...]

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Spot the snow leopard!

February 1, 2010 Mongolia

We all know snow leopards have fabulous camouflage with their gray, white and yellowish fur and the spotty rosettes. But this really proves it. Kim Murray, the Snow Leopard Trust’s Assistant Director of Science took these photos and showed them to some school kids and asked where the snow leopard was hiding. They couldn’t find [...]

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Update on Snow Leopard Trust Mongolia project

November 1, 2009 Mongolia

The Snow Leopard Trust’s Mongolia project is going full steam ahead and the team is getting heaps of data on the cats they are watching – check out the blog for the movements of Saikhan, Shonkhor, Aztai, Itgel and Tsagaan in the Gobi desert and the Tost and Toson Bumba Mountains of Mongolia. Isn’t technology [...]

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Mongolian recipe to celebrate snow leopard blog birthday

October 31, 2009 Mongolia

 Here’s the next recipe to celebrate the snow leopard blog’s first birthday. I’m covering a recipe from each of the 12 snow leopard range countries. I haven’t been to Mongolia so I recently asked Bayarjargal (Bayara) Agvaantseren the Executive Director and founder of the Snow Leopard Conservation Foundation (SLCF) in Mongolia for a suggested recipe. [...]

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"Saving the Ghost of the mountain" – book by Sy Montgomery

September 23, 2009 Mongolia

I have to share with you  my latest find – this gorgeous book by Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop – “Saving the Ghost of the Mountain – an expedition among snow leopards in Mongolia” -just published. It’s aimed at young readers but an absolute must read for adults interested in this rare cat too. Sy [...]

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Giant snow leopard leaps up city building

August 23, 2009 Mongolia

Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado has raised money with its “Quarters for Conservation program” that is going towards snow leopard conservation in Mongolia. The Zoo is telling its story with a giant snow leopard poster on the Colorado Springs American National bank building. Megan Sanders, one of the zoo’s animal behavior managers has just returned from Mongolia where [...]

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In the field in Mongolia with Orjan from Sweden

October 28, 2008 Mongolia

Orjan Johansson is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of the SL Trust’s long-term research project. He’s a Research Associate from the Grismo Wildlife Research Station in Riddarhyttan Sweden with lots of field experience with large carnivores (wolf, lion, mountain lion, etc.). Orjan’s been [...]

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How long is a snow leopard's tail?

October 28, 2008 Mongolia

The Snow Leopard Trust team in Mongolia has been monitoring four cats for the last few months. Recently on their blog they measured the tail of one of the cats – called, of course – “Longtail” – and found that his tail is 92 cm long, which is almost as long as his body, (118 [...]

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