The women brave biting cold to count and conserve a predator once seen as a threat in their villages.

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 ...

Milan BK is busy installing camera traps, checking its GPS location and peering through binoculars at outcrops on the other side of the valley for signs of snow leopard movement. BK is 15 years old ...

Pithoragarh: A snow leopard has been sighted and photographed in the upper Darma Valley of Uttarakhand's Pithoragarh district ...

We take a hike across the mountains on the Russian-Mongolian border, following a group of researchers who are tracking the movements of the last twelve snow leopards in the region.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A female skier was viciously mauled by a snow leopard on Friday after approaching the predator too closely for a photo, according ...

Local women in Spiti Valley are crucial in protecting snow leopards, transforming them from a threat to a symbol of ...

An international team of scientists has identified fossils of snow leopards for the first time. The discovery has allowed them to trace the evolutionary history of the species during the Quaternary ...

There are relatively few snow leopards in the world, and it has likely been that way for a long time, a new study indicates. This situation increases their risk of extinction in a changing environment ...

Nepal has released its first consolidated national estimate of snow leopards, placing the population at 397 individuals, after synthesizing multiple studies conducted between 2015 and 2024. Despite ...

Whole genome sequencing has revealed that snow leopards have low genetic diversity because they are rare, and probably always have been. Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia). (Credit: Paul Groom Photography ...