Records & People
The Himalayan nation's first-ever national census reveals a healthy population of the world's most elusive big cat - one that ignores international…
By Dawa Sherpa · Jul 20, 2026
One collared snow leopard crossed into Tibet and back seven times without anyone in Kathmandu knowing it had left the country. Another patrolled a range of 312 square kilometres of Kanchenjunga's cliffs and glacier moraine, alone. For an animal so elusive…
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Nepal has been considered a stronghold for Panthera uncia for decades, but until 23 April 2025 nobody had ever put a firm number on the national population. The estimate - a joint effort by the government's Department of National Parks and Wildlife…
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The population count answered one question; a smaller, stranger study answered another. Between 2013 and 2017, WWF Nepal researchers fitted GPS collars on four snow leopards in the Kangchenjunga Conservation Area and tracked them for between 20 and 659 days…
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What this means for you Your odds of actually spotting one on a trek remain slim - that is rather the point of an animal that can vanish into scree at twenty paces. But the same conservation economics that made this count possible are concentrated exactly…
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