Additional motion sensor cameras installed in snow leopard habitat

Politics
bamarjargal@montsame.mn
2017-03-14 14:35:39

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Administration of Gobi Gurvan Saikhan National Park and Snow Leopard Trust NGO have made an agreement to conduct a multilateral study on snow leopards. Specialists have started the first phase of a study to determine the population of snow leopards in Mongolia last month.

They have installed around 41 automatic cameras in different areas of the Umnugobi aimag in the South Gobi region the main distribution area of the snow leopard in Mongolia. The study will be conducted in 40 days using the remote sensing cameras. 

Notably, 179 snow leopards were caught in 94 cameras installed in the area last year. Mongolia is home to the second largest population of snow leopards in the world. It is estimated that the population of snow leopard in Mongolia reaches 500-1000. 

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