"Like the thermometer of the alpine ecosystem." Officials thrilled after once-in-a-lifetime encounter with extremely elusive ...

According to the experts, if a snow leopard attacks you then you should scream. The wild animals also run away in the presence of smoke. They are expected to stay in the same place for another 20 ...

SXSW: Set deep in the Himalayas, "Snow Leopard Sisters" follows a mentor/mentee relationship that speaks to a larger conflict between herders and the wildlife they must learn to respect.

The snow leopards do not have as much wild prey to hunt as they once did, meaning they often attack domestic animals. Rinchen's story, of a snow leopard killing many sheep and goats in an ...

Four cameras were installed surrounding the fences in December 2016 with the purpose to identify whether this method can protect livestock from snow leopard attack. Cameras were collected this ...

High up in the Himalayan mountains of Nepal, a big-horned blue sheep known as a bharal munches on a patch of grass.Not far off in the distance, a snow leopard lies, waiting to pounce on its prey.

In February 2022, another herder, also in Dolpa, lost 98 sheep and goats to a snow leopard attack. In November 2023, four snow leopards entered an enclosure built for goats in Mustang and killed ...

The last assessment of global snow leopard numbers in 2016 estimated that species population numbered between 2,700 and 3,300, though some estimates range as high as 7,000, according to the IUCN.