Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A snow leopard walks across a mountainside at Thiksey village on the outskirts of Leh in India's Ladakh region on February 13, ...

Snow leopards are known as the “ghosts of the mountains” for a reason. Imagine waiting for months in the harsh, rugged mountains of Asia, hoping to catch even a glimpse of one. These elusive big cats ...

Camera trapping image during the study. Most of India’s snow leopard population live in a remote region in the north of the country, where they co-exist alongside rural communities, according to a ...

Sandro Lovari has led research expeditions on large mammals in Nepal and around the world for 50 years. He has been associated with the University of Cambridge UK, University of Groningen, Stockholm ...

In one of India's coldest and most remote regions, a group of women have taken on an unlikely role: protecting one of Asia's most elusive predators, the snow leopard. Snow leopards are found in just ...

The first scientific estimate of snow leopards, setting the stage for long-term monitoring of the species, reveals that 718 big cats roam the ice-capped mountains of the Indian Himalaya. The Wildlife ...

Nepal's first nationwide survey of the threatened snow leopard estimated nearly 400 of the elusive big cats in the Himalayan nation, wildlife officials said Tuesday. Habitat loss, climate change and ...

Ladakh’s plan to create a dedicated snow leopard conservation society points to a more locally grounded future for one of ...

According to Rinzin Phunjok Lama's grandmother, the snow leopard is a mountain god and should be respected. In her version of local folklore, sabu, as snow leopards are called by Tibetans in Nepal, ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Rinzin Phunjok Lama is an award-winning conservation biologist who studies one of the most elusive big cats in the world: the snow leopard. Based ...

Research from Nepal’s Lapchi Valley reveals how three apex predators share the same rugged landscape by reducing competition through distinct feeding habits.