The Himalayan wolf (Canis lupus chanco) and snow leopard (Panthera uncia) are apex predators in alpine ecosystems. By controlling the numbers of meso-predators and herbivores, these top predators ...

The survey highlights the significance of Qinghai province’s Sanjiangyuan region for snow leopard conservation and underscores growing climate change concerns.

The region is home to the Himalayan ibex, the wolf, the fox, the Himalayan lynx, and of course, the snow leopard. Of these, the ibex is of particular importance to the locals. Since 1992, the ...

Snow leopards are considered the most endangered ... It is believed there are between 4,000 and 6,500 left in the wild in the Himalayan regions of Afghanistan, Bhutan, Siberia, Mongolia, Pakistan ...

far from the high and icy Himalayan mountains. An international team of scientists has identified fossils of snow leopards for the first time, in a research published in Science Advances.

snow leopards flowing as mere cloud shadows along Himalayan crags; and jaguars roaming mysteriously alone in the great swamps of Brazil's Pantanal. Yet today I behold these icons of wildness and ...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday named six new cubs - two snow leopards and four red pandas - born at the Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park in Darjeeling, a centre for ...

Anand Nambiar (India) captures an unusual perspective of a snow leopard charging a herd of Himalayan ibex towards a steep edge. From a vantage point across the ravine, Anand watched the snow leopard ...

Little is known about snow leopards. They live in harsh, remote, mountainous landscapes with threats including habitat deterioration, conflict with people, poaching and illegal trade. Climate change ...

Kedar Baral, a conservationist who has studied the potential impact of climate change on the habitat and distribution of leopards, says interactions between them and snow leopards could become ...

2024 declare issued by the Indian government on Snow Leopards puts the number at a healthy 718, rising from the last assessment of 400-700 spread around India’s Himalayan nation. In order to ...