Snow leopard – a large cat with high potential for conservation success

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A new dawn? Population baselines of snow leopards and other mammals of the Kishtwar High Altitude National Park, India
新的曙光？印度基什特瓦尔高海拔国家公园雪豹和其他哺乳动物的种群基线

Munib Khanyari,  Oyndrila Sanyal,  Pankaj Chandan,  Deepti Bajaj,  Charu Sharma,  Manoj Rana,  Neeraj Sharma,  Tawqir Bashir,  Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi, 
A new dawn? Population baselines of snow leopards and other mammals of the Kishtwar High Altitude National Park, India 新的曙光？印度基什特瓦尔高海拔国家公园雪豹和其他哺乳动物的种群基线

The Greater Himalayas in India, of which Kishtwar High Altitude National Park (KHANP) is a part, harbours potential snow leopard habitat. We sampled three catchments within the Dachhan region of KHANP using 44 cameras and identified four unique snow leopard individuals across 14 detections in nine camera locations. We propose KHANP as a conservation landscape under the Project Snow Leopard of the Government of India.

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Lessons for Transboundary Snow Leopard Conservation: Findings From a GPS Telemetry Study in Kangchenjunga Conservation Area, Nepal
跨境雪豹保护经验:来自尼泊尔Kangchenjunga保护区的GPS追踪研究结果

Samundra Ambuhang Subba,  Hem Raj Acharya,  Sheren Shrestha,  Saroj Koirala,  Rinjan Shrestha,  Gokarna Jung Thapa,  Kamal Thapa,  Anil Shrestha,  Sabita Malla,  Gopal Prakash Bhattarai,  Laxman Prasad Poudyal,  Man Bahadur Khadka,  Ghana Shyam Gurung,  Shiv Raj Bhatta,  Maheshwar Dhakal,  Naresh Subedi,  Narendra Man Babu Pradhan,  Ananta Ram Bhandari,  Shant Raj Jnawali,  Khagendra Phembu Limbu,  Bed Kumar Dhakal,  Kanchan Thapa, 
Lessons for Transboundary Snow Leopard Conservation: Findings From a GPS Telemetry Study in Kangchenjunga Conservation Area, Nepal 跨境雪豹保护经验:来自尼泊尔Kangchenjunga保护区的GPS追踪研究结果

Understanding the spatial ecology and movement of snow leopards is crucial for their long-term conservation. Our first GPS telemetry study in Nepal revealed that snow leopards of Nepal have much larger home ranges than previously thought and frequently cross international borders. This highlights the need for collaborative conservation efforts between Nepal, India, and China. GPS-collared snow leopards in Kangchenjunga Conservation Area (KCA) during the four fiscal years of 2013–2017. A: Ghangjenjwenga (13647), B: Omi Khangri (17103), C: Lapchhemba (21245) and D: Yalung (21755) (Photo credit: DNPWC/WWF Nepal).