A Himalayan herb, Jimbu, traditionally used in Nepalese cuisine, is now playing a crucial role in saving endangered snow leopards. Its pungent aroma deters blue sheep, the leopards' prey, from raiding ...

For years, ecologists have assumed that large predators sharing the same mountain landscape would avoid one another by occupying different territories or remaining active at different times of the day ...

In the icy wilderness areas of High Asia, snow leopards glide like shadows across the snows as the haunting howls of Himalayan wolves echo across the crags. In Nepal, high mountain dwellers have ...

Nepal's first nationwide survey of the threatened snow leopard estimated nearly 400 of the elusive big cats in the Himalayan nation, wildlife officials said Tuesday. Habitat loss, climate change and ...

Logline: In Nepal’s remote Dolpo region, two Indigenous women form an unlikely friendship to save one of the planet’s most mysterious and vulnerable wild cats: the snow leopard. As they travel through ...

They are rare, they are elusive and they are so well camouflaged, they are difficult to see, even when they are right there. That is why snow leopards are called the ‘Ghosts of the Himalaya’. And ...

A committee of experts is combining various studies across different times and regions to estimate Nepal’s snow leopard population for the first time using new standards. Past studies varied in their ...

An international team of scientists has identified fossils of snow leopards for the first time. The discovery has allowed them to trace the evolutionary history of the species during the Quaternary ...

According to Rinzin Phunjok Lama's grandmother, the snow leopard is a mountain god and should be respected. In her version of local folklore, sabu, as snow leopards are called by Tibetans in Nepal, ...