I aim to work towards wildlife conservation through robust applied scientific research informing management and policy. My work, so far, has focused on the understanding and conservation of the alpine and high-altitude regions of the Himalaya and other Central Asian mountains. My Doctoral thesis focuses on identifying the causes of livestock predation by snow leopards and finding ways to minimize it through management of wild herbivore and livestock populations. I also examined the perceptions and attitudes of local herders to find ways of minimizing the persecution of the snow leopard. I used population ecology to develop an understanding of the interactions between large carnivores, their wild ungulate prey and livestock.