Expedition Schneeleo" exhibition now at the Museum der Natur Hamburg

"Snow leopards are among the rarest and least researched big cats on earth. There are only up to 6,400 of them left in the wild worldwide," says Thomas Tennhardt, NABU Director of International Affairs. This is why NABU has been working to protect the endangered big cat in Central Asia for over 20 years with an anti-poaching unit, monitoring, environmental education and a rehabilitation centre for snow leopards. With the travelling exhibition, NABU also wants to focus on the special nature and need for protection of a relatively unknown big cat species here in Germany, which, as a high mountain dweller, is one of the victims of the global climate crisis. It provides vivid information about their way of life and the reasons for the threat and gives suggestions on how everyone can help to protect these animals.

With this exhibition, the Museum der Natur Hamburg complements the big cat section with snow leopard, tiger, cheetah, puma and co. This part of the exhibition has only recently been updated with lots of information and illustrative graphics on the way of life and endangerment of the big cats.

"NABU's travelling exhibition fits perfectly into our exhibition and education concept. Children in particular will enjoy the rally. They can save the results of the various hands-on stations on wristbands with chips and experience a surprise at the end," emphasises Dr Lioba Thaut, Exhibition Director at the Museum der Natur Hamburg of the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB).