Xiaoyun noticed the remains of a blue sheep on which they had likely just fed. Snow leopards are a vulnerable species. However, the illegalisation of firearms in China in 1989, along with hunting bans ...

This was a stark contrast with what I had always previously understood – that locals did not get on with snow leopards, as they hunt their ... its main prey, the blue sheep (Pseudois nayaur ...

I have been on top of this hill in the northern Indian territory of Ladakh for more than four hours, waiting for an elusive snow leopard to emerge from his resting place on a neighboring hill.