2017 Volume 12 Issue 2 Pages 217-232
There is potentially 600–900 population of snow leopards living in Mongolia. Especially, a plenty of eyewitness, encounter, and livestock predatory has been reported in Khovd and Bayan-Ulgii Province. Such kind of “snow leopard accident” was dramatically increased from 2014. In contrast to this situation, some of retributive illegal killing are still happened against livestock predatory. To create well-being relationship between snow leopard and local nomadic herders, this research mainly focus of actual situation about “snow leopard accident” among the nomadic society. The fieldwork was carried on from 19th July 2016 ～22nd August 2016, with structured interview (hysteresis and retroactive research, documentation of oral history) to 117 informants living in vicinity of snow leopard's dwelling at Mt. Jargalant, Mt. Bonbut, and Mt. Munkh-Khairkhan. Herder's attitude for ecological conservation and animal grazing is also key issue to create sustainable co-existence with nomadic herders and snow leopards.
