Human population growth and concomitant increases in demand for natural resources pose
threats to many wildlife populations. The landscapes used by the endangered snow leopard …

There is a need for simple and robust techniques for assessment and monitoring of
populations of the Endangered snow leopard Panthera uncia to inform the development of …

Aim Snow leopards are distributed across the mountains of 12 countries spread across 1.8
million km2 in Central and South Asia. Previous efforts to map snow leopard distributions …

Large carnivores commonly prey on livestock when their ranges overlap. Pastoralism is the
dominant land use type across the distributional range of the endangered snow leopard …

The endangered snow leopard Panthera uncia occurs in human use landscapes in the
mountains of South and Central Asia. Conservationists generally agree that snow leopards …

Leopard population declines largely occur in areas where leopards and people frequently
interact. Research on how leopards respond to human presence and competitors, like other …

Understanding abundance and distribution of species is often necessary for wildlife
conservation. However, elusive species such as the leopard (Panthera pardus) that have …

Conservation of large carnivores such as leopards requires large and interconnected
habitats. Despite the wide geographic range of the leopard globally, only 17% of their …

Effective management of charismatic large carnivores requires robust monitoring of their
population at local, regional and global scales. While enormous progress has been made to …

Across Asia protected areas serve as refuges for carnivores inside human-dominated
landscapes. However, the creation of hard edges around reserve boundaries where …