14 DAY TRIAL // The first rule to keeping animals from going extinct is making sure that you know everything that there is to know (or at least than can be known) about them.
To this end, conservationists in Nepal have recently caught a snow leopard living in the country's part of the Himalayas and fitted it with a satellite-GPS collar.
According to green group the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the feline was captured and made to wear the GPS collar on November 25.
Whatever data the collar will transmit will help greenheads gain a better understanding of this species. The goal is to use this information to implement conservation project intended to keep the species from going extinct.
“Snow leopards are highly elusive creatures and given the terrains they reside in, monitoring work on the species is a highly challenging task.”
“While past studies on the snow leopard have been limited to areas that are accessible to people, this technology will help provide important information on the ecology and behavior of the wide ranging snow leopard,” explains Dr. Narendra Man Babu Pradhan with WWF Nepal.
Interestingly enough, it appears that this is the first time Nepal has ever used satellite-GPS collar technology to monitor its snow leopard population.