Now here’s a great idea! Using Google maps to identify the location of news stories about snow leopards in China. Juan Li, a young Ph.D. student  has created this Google map of snow leopards reported during the 20 year period of 1990-2009 by searching the Google News Archive. She says”  I am a Ph.D candidate of conservation biology, in Center for Nature and Society, Peking university. And my supervisor is Lu Zhi. I did this map,...

Snow leopard with cub at Darjeeling Zoo. Photo Darjeeling Zoo. The Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park in Darjeeling, northern India has launched a two year project to research the nocturnal behavior of its snow leopards by keeping the animal under infra-red camera surveillance. The zoo, which has had a successful breeding program for many years, currently has six female and five male snow leopards. The most recent births were 3 cubs...

KarmaQuest’s snow leopard ecotour saw a wild snow leopard in Ladakh, India. Photo by Brian Keating. Yes, we believe it can. To share  information on snow leopard ecotourism I’ve added a page about travel and conservation companies offering  trips to snow leopard regions. There’s  information on what ecotourism trips offer, what you can expect if you go on a snow leopard ecotour and how such trips contribute to local community...

by Sibylle on May 21, 2010 Video on the work of the Altai Foundation, which was founded in 2004 to protect Russia’s wilderness areas. It works with its US partner, the Altai Conservancy, to collect scientific data of wilderness areas and supports anti-poaching efforts to protect the last snow leopards. –