Mongolia has been chosen to host a study to seek to prevent the further decline in the numbers of the world’s snow leopards. 

A declining population places snow leopards at only 3,500 to 7,000 worldwide. With 1,000 snow leopards, Mongolia has the world’s second largest snow leopard population after China.

Working in cooperation with the Mongolian government, the Snow Leopard Trust will use remote cameras and genetic monitoring to learn about snow leopards in a ten year study.

"Although there have been several valuable studies of the species to date, most were short-term, or at most four or five years in duration, and such short-term efforts simply cannot provide the understanding we need to conserve these cats," Tom McCarthy, the trust's conservation director, said in statement.
In an unusual move, the Snow Leopard Trust will pay volunteers to track snow leopards in western Mongolia this summer.

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