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The World Wildlife Fund Snow Leopard Team released their first newsletter in April of this year.

To read the newsletter and to subscribe, visit http://us12.campaign-archive2.com/?u=c22a1af24b6ee927ed461e455&id=2bea9d001d.

Dr. Thomas McCarthy, SLN member and head of the Panthera Snow Leopard Program, called this article to our attention. Congratulations to all the SLN members and other conservationists who are mentioned in the article.

Tom’s words are as follows:

“Smithsonian Magazine’s cover story this month [February 2016] provides a very nice depiction of the work Panthera and others are doing in Kyrgyzstan to conserve snow leopards. It focuses on the efforts of Tanya Rosen, Panthera Snow Leopard Program’s Country Director for Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. Tanya came to Panthera just 3 years ago and has rapidly moved those programs ahead using a variety of conservation actions, including but not limited to the conservancy-based hunting programs described in the Smithsonian article.

Congratulations to Tanya and her Panthera Kyrgyz and Tajik team members!

I would also like to acknowledge Shannon Kachel, the University of Washington (Seattle) PhD student who leads the snow leopard collaring project mentioned in the article. He is pictured but not specifically named in the text. Congratulations to him and all of the Kyrgyz team on the capture of their first (of many!) snow leopards for this study.”

Read the full article and view the magnificent pictures here:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/hunters-become-conservationists-fight-protect-snow-leopard-180958105

Earlier this year, Snow Leopard Network member Dr. Rodney Jackson was nominated for the 2016 Indianapolis Prize. This prestigious prize is awarded to conservationists whose work makes an outstanding contribution toward the protection and conservation of endangered species.

More information on Dr. Jackson’s nomination is available on the Snow Leopard Conservancy website, here.

More information on the Indianapolis Prize is available on their website, here.

Dear SLN members, we are revitalizing the SLN News Blog! Because our SLN Automatic Snow Leopard News Feed covers general snow leopard news, we are repurposing this blog to focus on grant opportunities, member accomplishments, and other items that are of interest to the SLN community and not widely covered in the general media. Enjoy!

Snow Leopard Trust trap cameras have captured images of a snow leopard catching a marmot in Kyrgyzstan.

For more information or to see the pictures as a time-lapse video, see http://www.snowleopard.org/snow-leopard-marmot?utm_source=Snow+Leopard+Trust+Enews&utm_campaign=b52bfdc6fd-2014_Enews_October&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cc286e56f5-b52bfdc6fd-90187233&goal=0_cc286e56f5-b52bfdc6fd-90187233&mc_cid=b52bfdc6fd&mc_eid=285c1ab674

Residents of Upper Manang Village in Nepal have reportedly sighted a snow leopard, which took a yak calf. This is the first time a snow leopard is thought to have entered the village. A local resident is quoted as feeling lucky to have had the opportunity to see a snow leopard, which is a positive reaction, considering a yak was taken.

For more information, see: http://www.ekantipur.com/2014/10/01/national/snow-leopard-spotted-in-upper-manang-village/395876.html

Source: ekantipur.com

A snow leopard has been reportedly captured by trap camera for the first time in the Qomolangma National Nature Reserve in Tibet. For more information and photos are available here: http://www.ecns.cn/visual/hd/2014/09-25/49678.shtml

Source: Chinese news website ecns.cn

Photographer Adam Riley recently captured an incredible series of photos, showing a snow leopard successfully hunting blue sheep. For more information and to see the photos, please see http://petapixel.com/2014/02/24/incredible-story-behind-first-ever-snow-leopard-kill-caught-camera/ or http://www.snowleopard.org/a-view-to-a-kill?pid=154&pageid=7642

Camera trap images of snow leopards have been captured for the first time in Uzbekistan, through a joint Panthera/ WWF project.

For more details and to see one of the pictures, see http://www.livescience.com/42641-snow-leopard-camera-trap-photos.html

Source: http://www.ecns.cn/2013/12-03/91032.shtml
Date: 03 December 2013
Author: Li Yan, Web Editor, ecns.com

A wild snow leopard was recently photographed pursuing a herd of Ibexes at 5,100 meters, the highest altitude of any snow leopard photographed in China. Snow Leopard Network member Ma Ming was quoted in the article. He estimates the individual photographed to be 2-3 years old.

Read more and view the photos here: http://www.ecns.cn/2013/12-03/91032.shtml