They are rare, they are elusive and they are so well camouflaged, they are difficult to see, even when they are right there.

Snow leopards, which live in central Asia, can survive in rugged mountains that are more than 9,800 feet tall. These cold, snowy, steep environments can be a hard place to survive. So snow ...

Life reconstruction of the Portuguese snow leopard hunting an Iberian ibex (Capra pyrenaica). Credit: Jiangzuo et al., 2025. A new study uncovers an unexpected member of the species’ evolutionary ...

Monitoring biodiversity in hard-to-reach high alpine areas using traditional survey methods like camera traps is challenging ...

In May 2020, a Tibetan official from a township in Shiqu told Lyu that he had captured images of four snow leopards in an isolated valley, and Lyu relayed the news to Luo. Luo went to Shiqu again.

XINING — Chinese researchers have surveyed snow leopard populations across approximately 360,000 square kilometers on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, estimating a population size of 1,002 of the rare ...

"Snow Leopard Summer" won a highly commended award in the Animals in their Environment category of the 2021 Wildlife Photographer of the Year. LUO XIAOYUN/FOR CHINA DAILY Since deciding to focus on ...

XINING — Chinese researchers have surveyed snow leopard populations across approximately 360,000 square kilometers on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, estimating a population size of 1,002 of the rare ...

Nature is vital. It provides our life-support system. But our one shared home is under threat like never before. So at WWF Cymru, we’re fighting to restore habitats and species and to build a Wales ...

In another habitat, a leopard is seen strutting in the snow. Other animals prefer to stay inside and snuggle up in their cozy habitats. "Every animal has a care team dedicated to knowing what each ...

Stopping the illegal wildlife trade is one of the most important and urgent parts of our work to protect iconic and threatened wildlife. We’re facing a global poaching crisis, which is threatening to ...