1. Snow Leopard

Snow Leopard Stories

A man in a puffy gray jacket sits on a rock by a mountain stream while a pump collects water samples nearby.

What a river in Bhutan can tell us about snow leopards in the Himalayas

A team, including WWF scientists from the US and Bhutan, is working to catch a glimpse of wildlife in Bhutan's Himalayan Mountains through the traces of DNA they leave behind in flowing river water.

  • Nine snow leopard range countries equipped with tools for climate smart landscape management planning

    June 15, 2016

    Over 40 representatives from nine of 12 snow leopard range countries gathered in Kathmandu, Nepal, in April 2016 for a workshop on climate smart conservation planning at the landscape level to protect the iconic snow leopard and its habitat.

    altai natural park

  • At the Top of the World

    WWF Magazine: Winter 2015
    Snow leopards, fresh water & climate change
    Kyrgyzstan

  • The Earth Has a Third Pole—And Millions of People Use Its Water

    June 04, 2015

    Overlapping heavily with snow leopard habitat, the Third Pole encompasses the snow-covered mountains surrounding the Tibetan Plateau. The Pole’s thousands of glaciers and regular snow melt form the headwaters for 10 of Asia’s biggest rivers, which bring drinking water, power and irrigation directly to 210 million people, while these river basins indirectly support more than 1.3 billion people.

    lake and mountains in asia

  • History of Nepal Conservation

    WWF Magazine: Winter 2014
    Small country, big impact

  • Taking Responsibility for the Future

    WWF Magazine: Winter 2014
    WWF Board of Directors Member Wang Shi on promoting conservation
    wang shi portrait

  • Citizen Scientists Saving Snow Leopards

    July 15, 2014

    WWF has found a way to protect the snow leopard while also benefiting nomadic herders. As part of the USAID-funded Conservation and Adaptation in Asia’s High Mountain Landscapes and Communities (AHM) project, local herders like Byambatsooj are now being trained and equipped to collect basic data on the remote mountains they know better than anyone else.

    camera trap set up

  • Building a Future for Snow Leopards

    October 23, 2013

    Government representatives from the 12 Asian countries where snow leopards roam endorsed an ambitious new plan at the meeting today—a plan to protect and conserve snow leopards and their high mountain range habitat.

    snow leopard profile

  • Can Saving Snow Leopards Quench People's Thirst?*

    WWF Magazine: Winter 2013
    snow leopard cut out