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Encounters Asia: Tracking the Ghost

Posted by Conservation Travel Curators on September 29, 2015 at 3:11pm in Impact, Conservation Travel Marketing, and Influence
Combine a height of 3400 metres and a - 25 degrees Celsius weather forecast, and you have the perfect conditions to track the elusive Snow Leopard. It was 6 years ago that we began our first Snow Leopard program. The first year we had only one sighting of the much anticipated and very elusive Grey Ghost. With each passing year, sightings got closer and increased in quality, and by the third year our trekkers had 8 sightings of 5 different Snow Leopards. From then on, pictures went viral and the elusive cat was no longer a myth but a reality for many, and a new tourism industry for Ladakh had formed.
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