Should this also be free for all? Free for mining, pillage and plunder? Up till now conservationists believed that snow leopard habitat was too remote for the development pressures to reach, but this snow leopard habitat in the South Gobi region of Mongolia was leased out for coal mining. Conservationists fought a hard battle to declare this as a protected area for the snow leopards and the local herders. 2011 Kulbhushansingh