Snow Leopard Identification: Training and Evaluation Toolkit
The Snow Leopard Training and Evaluation Toolkit allows teams to practice identifying snow leopards, test how well they perform, and improve their skills. The evaluation scores quantify the uncertainty in snow leopard identification and thus can be added when reporting density estimates from camera traps. camtraining.globalsnowleopard.org ...
Tourism in Snow Leopard Habitats
This GSLEP document aims to provide a practical guide to ecologically and socially conscious tourism practices within snow leopard habitats. It is designed primarily for operators in the tourist industry but also has a potential wider audience of policy makers in conservation and economic development fields. https://globalsnowleopard.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Eco-Tourism-Principles-web.pdf ...
Status of snow leopards in China Report
The report, entitled “Status of Snow Leopard Survey and Conservation, China 2018” was a collaborative effort by a number of organizations involved in snow leopard surveying and protection in China and summarizes recent snow leopard research and conservation activities. The report was produced in a joint effort by the Snow ...
The Sacramento Zoo’s Snow Leopard Cub ‘Coconut’ Makes His Exhibit Debut
After months of physical therapy, the Sacramento Zoo’s leopard cub, Coconut, made his first exhibit debut last week ...
Females or Food – What Drives Big Cats’ Spatial Behavior?
A fascinating new paper comparing the sex-specific home range use of snow leopards and pumas, and how it varies with different seasons (e.g. mating) ...
Double Observer Survey Method
This manual provides practical, step-by-step guidance on how to plan, implement and analyse double observer surveys to estimate ungulate population abundance in mountainous terrain. Such population estimates are useful for the long-term monitoring of ungulate species. Double Observer Survey Manual ...
PAWS: Population Assessment of the Worlds Snow Leopards
PAWS: Population Assessment of the World's Snow leopards At the International Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Conservation Forum 2017 in Bishkek, the range country governments formally endorsed a plan to develop a global snow leopard population assessment. The ambitious initiative, called Population Assessment of the World’s Snow Leopards, or, in short, ...
PRISM Evaluation Toolkit
PRISM is an evaluation toolkit that helps practitioners plan and evaluate the conservation program outcomes and impacts. https://conservationevaluation.org/ ...
Valuation of Ecosystem Services
This GSLEP report provide the first assessment of the economic value of provisioning ecosystem services – the material goods from ecosystems – used by local people Valuation of Ecosystem Services in Snow Leopard Landscapes of Asia ...