FEATURELINK: Tracking the elusive snow leopard

Tracking the elusive snow leopard
NBCNews.com
National Geographic kicks off its third annual Big Cat Week with a special about the snow leopard, the elusive and endangered cat that lives high in the snow-covered mountains of central Asia. NBC's Savannah Guthrie reports and big cat tracker Boone ...

NEWSLINK: Tracking the Elusive Snow Leopard of Afghanistan

Tracking the Elusive Snow Leopard of Afghanistan
ABC News (blog)
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and USAID challenged Smith, a fourth-generation big-cat trapper from Idaho, to capture and collar a snow leopard in Afghanistan in just 20 days. “They're borderline mythical, legendary,” Smith said. “If you can't ...

NEWSLINK: Conservation of snow leopards

Snow leopards: Love of wild cats takes Great Falls man to China
Great Falls Tribune
“My dream had always been working on big cats,” he said. That dream recently became a reality when Weckworth was hired in May to do snow leopard research in China and elsewhere in Asia with a nongovernmental organization called Panthera. Panthera ...

NEWSLINK: Conservation proposal for Pakistani snow leopards

Snow Leopards in Pakistan No Longer Wild, Expert Says
National Geographic
The snow leopard in Pakistan is an endangered species. The population of the rarely seen big cat has likely fallen to fewer than 450 in the country, mainly due to hunting. Now an expert has come up with an unconventional—and controversial—proposal to ...

SIGHTING: Snow leopard in Northern India

Predators in the snow
Business Standard
A snow leopard (Panthera uncia), the elusive large cat which lives in the snow-bound ranges of the upper Himalayas, has finally been sighted in Uttarakhand. A specimen of this endangered species was caught on a camera trap for the first time on April 10 ...