Snow Leopard Conservancy News

camera-trap photo of Mongolian snow leopard

Mongolian snow leopard scraping to mark its territory

News from Mongolia

The Snow Leopard Conservancy, Irbis Mongolia, and the Mongolian Academy of Sciences have launched a collaborative camera-trapping study of snow leopards in the South Gobi Desert. Training in camera trapping techniques was conducted during May 2007, and the team was rewarded with some nice images.

close-up camera-trap photo of Mongolian snow leopard

Very curious (and very close), a Mongolian snow leopard takes its photograph

Cameras will be out for two months, monitored by Mongolian biologists. Stay tuned for the results!

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