Landmark studies bring elusive snow leopards back into limelight
Al Jazeera
Two large-scale studies done earlier this year unveil robust scientific data on animal’s population for the first time.
Ladakh, India – At the end of 1973, after two months spent roaming the wild Dolpo region in the Tibetan Plateau, American naturalist and writer Peter Matthiessen realised it was time to hang up his blood-soaked boots.
Exhausted, he abandoned zoologist George Schaller alone in the mountains, giving up his dream of seeing a snow leopard (Panthera uncia) in the wild.
Matthiessen wrote the story of that gruelling expedition in 1978 in The Snow Leopard, capturing the world’s imagination at a time when scientists still knew next to nothing about these elusive creatures.
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