#Sascha Fonseca

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Gorgeous Tiger Photos Show These Big Cats in a New Light

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Himalayan summer.

Against a backdrop of the spectacular mountains of Ladakh in northern India, a snow leopard has been caught in a perfect pose by photographer Sascha Fonseca's carefully positioned camera trap

Photo by: @sascha.fonseca

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Sascha Fonseca

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Photograph: Sascha Fonseca

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Snow leopard in Ladakh, India, by Sascha Fonseca

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Photo: Sascha Fonseca

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Himalayan Summer.

Against a backdrop of the spectacular mountains of Ladakh in northern India, a snow leopard has been caught in a perfect pose by photographer Sascha Fonseca's carefully positioned camera trap

Photo by: @sascha.fonseca

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(by Sascha Fonseca)

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Sascha Fonseca 

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A wildlife photographer has managed to capture intimate images of the rarely spotted snow leopard high in the mountains of India's Ladakh region. Sascha Fonseca captured the stunning shots during a three-year trap camera photography project from 2019-2021. The images show the endangered cat, known among locals in northern India as the Ghost of the Mountain, stalking its natural habitat more than 2.5 miles above sea level.

Mr Fonseca said he was attracted by "the challenge to photograph these rare and hard-to-find big cats in their natural environment".  "By sharing their beauty with the world I hope to raise awareness about their existence and the importance to protect their habitats," he added. Mr Fonseca spent hours in mountains setting up his camera traps, building the weatherproof housing to protect the cameras himself. Despite contending with brutal working conditions - high altitude, low oxygen levels, rugged terrain, and extreme weather - Mr Fonseca hopes his work will bring heightened awareness to these majestic, endangered creatures. "Habitat loss due to human expansion is the main problems followed by a number of related issues. That’s why it’s so important to create public awareness."

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'The World Is Mine' 

"A strikingly beautiful Snow leopard roams across the jagged peaks of the Ladakh mountain range in India. “

By Sascha Fonseca

Nature Photographer Of The Year

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A photo of a snow leopard on the icy cliffs of northern India has won the people's choice award for the 58th annual Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award, the Natural History Museum in London announced Thursday.

Sascha Fonseca captured this image during a three-year bait-free camera-trap project in Leh, Ladakh, India, high in the Indian Himalayas. Because of their remote habitat, they are one of the most difficult large cats to photograph in the wild.

Sascha Fonseca/Wildlife Photographer of the Year

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/09/1155633439/wildlife-photographer-of-the-year

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A snow leopard against a backdrop of the mountains of Ladakh in northern India 

(© Sascha Fonseca / Wildlife Photographer of the Year)

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🔥 Young Snow Leopard Bares Its Teeth at Camera in Wonderful Candid Photo, photographer Sascha Fonseca. *link in comments

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From PetaPixel:

Wildlife photographer Sascha Fonseca has captured an incredible photo of the ultra-rare Siberian tiger in its snowy natural environment. Fonseca had carefully set up a camera trap in December 2021 in the forests of Far East Russia in hopes of catching one of the endangered cats. Luckily for the photographer, one large male tiger just so happened to walk right in front of the camera.

Once common in northeast Asia, widespread poaching of both the Siberian tiger and the prey animals they feed on has pushed the animal to the brink of extinction. It is estimated that less than 400 individuals remain in the wild.

“Approximately 350-400 adult Siberian or Amur tigers are left in the wild, with 95% of these individuals inhabiting the forests of the Russian Far East, where they play a critical role in both the ecosystem and local culture,” writes the Wildlife Conservation Society. “The tiger is a keystone species that requires large, intact forest ecosystems and acts as an indicator of overall ecosystem health […]

“Although poaching levels reached an estimated 60-70 tigers per year in the early 1990s, today Russian and international conservation efforts have succeeded in stabilizing the number of Amur tigers in the wild. However, there are still significant threats to this population, and the Amur tiger remains critically endangered.”