‘Ghost of the mountains’ spotted in Spiti: Tourists capture rare snow leopard on camera in thrilling encounterWhile road-tripping through Himachal’s Spiti Valley, a group of stunned tourists captured a rare sight—an elusive snow leopard calmly walki...
07 May, 2025, 09.29 PM IST
India's snow leopard census: 718 spotted in first-ever estimation, majority roaming LadakhIndia boasts 718 snow leopards, revealed in the groundbreaking Snow Leopard Population Assessment. Ladakh leads with 477, showcasing succes...
30 Jan, 2024, 07.11 PM IST
Himachal home to 75 snow leopards, says five-year scientific estimationA recent estimation conducted in Himachal Pradesh, India, as part of the Snow Leopard Population Assessment, has revealed the presence of 4...
24 Oct, 2023, 01.45 PM IST
Rare snow leopards spotted near Kazakh city amid lockdown25 May, 2020, 03.24 PM IST
Extinction Watch: Amur Leopard, only 100 in the wildThe Amur leopard tops the list of critically endangered wildlife. Apart from the 100 in the wild, there are about 200 in captivity. It can ...
24 Jan, 2020, 12.59 PM IST
Darjeeling gets snow leopard from UK, another from France soonDarjeeling zoo, left with eight female and a lone male snow leopard, has now got a male big cat from England while another from France will...
26 Jun, 2016, 01.30 PM IST
Darjeeling gets snow leopard from UK, another from France soonDarjeeling zoo runs a special conservation breeding programme for snow leopards, an endangered species whose survival is challenged by poac...
26 Jun, 2016, 11.53 AM IST
Snow leopards mapped with camera traps: WWFA pilot project of installing camera traps to map endangered snow leopards has yielded "positive" results in North Sikkim as photos of the ...
28 Jan, 2016, 06.33 PM IST
WWF calls for urgent action to protect snow leopardsWorld Wildlife Fund report said that more than a third of snow leopard habitat could be rendered "unsuitable" for the big cats if climate c...
25 Oct, 2015, 08.46 PM IST
WWE calls for urgent action to protect snow leopards in India'Climate change could drastically alter the flow of water down from the mountains, threatening the livelihoods of vast numbers of people ac...
25 Oct, 2015, 12.05 PM IST
India too in global effort to save snow leopard habitatThanks to camera trap imagery, Uttarakhand has been able to capture images of snow leopards in the higher reaches of Nanda Devi Biosphere, ...
10 Jul, 2015, 07.01 AM IST
Come face-to-face with Snow Leopards, Ibex and Yaks in LadakhThe fauna of Ladakh has similar topography as that of Central Asia generally, and especially those of the Tibetan Plateau.
27 Nov, 2014, 06.40 AM IST
- HP to launch conservation programme for Himalayan brown bear
As in the case of endangered snow leopards, there is no exact data available about the Himalayan brown bear whose numbers are believed to h...
27 Oct, 2014, 01.49 AM IST
Snow leopards are in 'real danger': WWFLaunching a campaign "Save Our Snow Leopards", WWF-India said that poaching is the major challenge for the protection of this so magnificen...
25 Apr, 2014, 05.19 PM IST
Snow leopards in Spiti valley to be radio collaredSatellite-linked collars will be soon fitted on snow leopards in the tribal Spiti valley of Himachal Pradesh to get a deeper understanding ...
23 Jan, 2014, 12.03 PM IST
HP to launch snow leopard research, conservation facility in Spiti"However, the Mongolian habitat differs considerably from the Himalayan ones.A primary difference is: while the former is mostly between 1,...
22 Jan, 2014, 02.36 AM IST
- Dutch honour for Indian conservationist
Charudutt Mishra, India director of the International Snow Leopard Trust, is among three conservationists this year to be honoured with the...
18 Mar, 2008, 09.57 AM IST