Tara "contributed massively to the captive breeding programme," Lakeland Wildlife Oasis says.

Chinese researchers have completed the first large-scale snow leopard population assessment, which is also the largest ...

The snow leopard (Panthera uncia) is a large feline unique to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and its surrounding areas. As the apex predator in the region, the snow leopard plays a crucial role in ...

An international team of researchers unveiled new insights into the evolutionary history of the snow leopard, challenging long-held beliefs about this elusive big cat's habitat preferences.

The study, published in Science Advances, suggests that snow leopards prefer rocky terrain and cold climates over high altitudes. These data may help to ensure the protection of this iconic animal ...

Transformation helped bring the big cats back to Kangchenjunga in Nepal For many years, Himali Chungda Sherpa saw snow leopards solely as a threat – to his family’s herd and livelihood. Back then, he ...

Contemporary snow leopards are rare — and fossils of their ancient ancestors are even more scarce. Researchers have now identified and examined million-year-old bones of the big cat and have come to ...

Urgent need for more research on snow leopards and their habitat Recent claims that there could be significantly more snow leopards than previously thought are unfortunately based on flawed data – ...

It was then that I saw my first snow leopard from the roof of a house in Kibber village, where the ground was covered in a thick two-foot carpet of snow, as far as the eye could see. This marked ...

Snow leopards (Panthera uncia) are in serious danger of extinction, with only about 4,000 specimens remaining. They are medium to large felids that live at high altitudes, over 2,000 meters above ...