Big news at the Great Plains Zoo as staff revealed the gender of their newest addition, a baby snow leopard cub!

The Great Plains Zoo is celebrating a milestone more than 21 years in the making, the birth of a snow leopard cub. And now, ...

Snow leopards are no longer an endangered species; they’re now considered “vulnerable” to extinction. But scientists caution that the big cats are not out of danger, facing threats ranging ...

The population growth prompted the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to downlist the animals from “endangered” to “ vulnerable ” in 2017. But in many areas, snow leopards still ...

The elusive snow leopard was listed on the IUCN Red List as endangered in 1986. In 2017, its status changed to vulnerable—one step below endangered—and it remains there to this day.

The snow leopard, which has been listed on the IUCN Red List as Endangered since 1986, recently had its threat status downgraded to Vulnerable. “However, its population continues to decline and ...

To be considered endangered there have to be fewer than 2,500 mature adult snow leopards in the wild, but experts now believe their true number may be around 4,000 with some saying it could be as ...

There are only 4,000 to 6,500 snow leopards in the wild, according to the World Wildlife Federation, and just 90 Amur leopards. Naphisa and Ramil are the zoo’s only snow leopards.

The elusive snow leopards of the high Himalayas have been listed as Endangered for the past 25 years on the authoritative Red List of Threatened Species kept by the International Union for the ...

From snow leopard conservationist Rinchen Wangchuk to tiger protection pioneer Kailash Sankhala, these individuals fought to ...

Snow leopards have been taken off the endangered list and have been categorised as “vulnerable”.. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the global standard for assessing ...

A second snow leopard has tested positive for COVID-19 at the San Diego Zoo, just days after an earlier case, the organization told the Union-Tribune on Thursday. Zoo staff tested stool samples ...