Our Animal Behavior Programs Manger, Megan, is currently in Mongolia providing snow leopard conservation and field work studies. Here’s her latest update all the way from Mongolia:
Sain Bainauu (Hello!)
We spent a few days in Ulaan Baatar wrapping up what information was gathered at the herder's workshop. It feels like there is a lot of new energy around some new ideas and moving Snow Leopard conservation forward. It's very exciting!
Yesterday we traveled to Khustai National Park to see the wild Przewalski's Horses. In Mongolian they are called takhi. We saw two separate herds complete with 3 foals ranging from 1 day to 2 months old. The takhi were thought to be extinct in the wild in the 1970's. There were however some individuals in zoos around the world. These horses were bread and eventually released into the wild. There are now over 260 takhi in the park making it a great success story much like the work we do with Black Footed Ferrets at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo! It was an amazing experience!
Tomorrow we are headed to the South Gobi to the Snow Leopard Trust's research camp. I am excited to see the place where so much important conservation work is happening!
Until later!
Bayartai (Goodbye)
Megan
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