Researchers On A Quest To Track Endangered Snow Leopards

This is a perfect video for animal lovers and seeing them in their natural habitat. Especially ones that are endangered or the last of their kind in a certain area. This video follows a group of researchers that are tracking the last 12 snow leopards in the region.

We take a hike across the mountains on the Russian-Mongolian border, following a group of researchers who are tracking the movements of the last twelve snow leopards in the region. Footage takes place in the Russian-Mongolian border and the team navigates the woods and snow to see these leopards. There are actually only about 8000 snow leopards left in the world and they look like amazing creatures! It is very interesting to see their group tactics and pure love for these leopards! Simply amazing!

The team is in Buryatia, Russia a southern area of the country just north of Mongolia and the team is tracking down snow leopards. The group is a big advocate of the preservation of these leopards and definitely dislike the people who hunt these beautiful creatures.

Anton Tsatska, the 25-year-old man in charge of this group, is very appreciative and loves snow leopards! He has an extensive background with wildlife as he used to hunt and hike as a child with his father. They would collect berries and mushrooms in the wild and he loved to go fishing with his father. This is someone who definitely feels at home when he is hiking and living in the wild!

Tsatska claims that the hunting of these, now endangered, snow leopards began in the 1980s. These hunters would hunt down these leopards and sell off their fur and organs. This is a similar situation with what is happening with elephants and whales where poachers attack and sell off organs or ivory. It is very sad when animals are being attacked in their own home to be sold off for some money. The fur and organs can actually be found in museums and it is unfortunately what happened to the animal for it to be put on display for people. According to team’s research there are about 12 snow leopards in the mountains they are exploring!

A normal day for the team involves waking up in their campsite and making food to get ready for their day’s long journey! After all, breakfast is said to be the most important meal of the day! They start by surveying the area for leopards whether it is feces, tracks, left over food, etc. After all that they log all their data into a GPS device so they can pinpoint their locations and see their travel patterns and they even collect DNA from these findings. They leave cameras in these areas so if they come back to sleep or rest in the same spot they can see what the leopards are up to!

Tsatska says they observe them as a pack to see how they move as a group and to see how they act with their environment around them! Tsatska has a true love for these animals and really enjoys learning even the smallest amount of detail about these leopards. It is great someone so passionate really cares about the well-being of these endangered animals!