Abstract
This chapter focuses on changes in the numbers of snow leopard and their prey over time. We present a large set of empirical data collected by Bikram Shrestha during several grant-funded projects.
This data is valuable considering the lack of detailed data on snow leopards and might be used in various contexts in the future. Although it is a large and probably world unique set of metadata, it has proved very difficult to combine data from different sources for use in an analysis.
The problems that made a more rigorous analysis very difficult or even impossible are highlighted. Finally, some rules are proposed, which should be followed in order to prevent waste of time and money in a disorganised collection of incompatible data, which cannot be analysed and some rules outlined that need to be followed to make the data compatible.