A seminar was held last month by the Mongolian Ministry for Nature, Environment and Green Development. If any SLN member who attended would like to give a report in the next News Update,  that would be very informative. Full text of news story follows: Source: http://www.china.org.cn/environment/2013-06/07/content_29055914.htm Mongolia probes ways to ...

ABC News reporter Dan Harris travels to Darjeeling, India, to learn about SLN member Tom McCarthy's research. Link to video: http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/snow-leopards-tracking-endangered-cats-19317484 ...

A Bhutanese film student, Tenzin Phuntsho, is working on a snow leopard conservation video to reach nomadic herders. Full text of article as follows: Source: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/snow-leopards-become-video-stars-in-students-plan-to-save-them-20130602-2njqv.html <a href='http://ad-apac.doubleclick.net/jump/onl.smh.environ/environ/conservation;cat=environ;cat1=conservation;ctype=article;pos=1;sz=940x20;tile=2;ord=4.2914567E7?' target="_blank"> <img src='http://ad-apac.doubleclick.net/ad/onl.smh.environ/environ/conservation;cat=environ;cat1=conservation;ctype=article;pos=1;sz=940x20;tile=2;ord=4.2914567E7?' border="0" alt=""> </a&gtSnow leopards become video stars in student's plan to  save them June 3, 2013 - Humans are the ...

Thanks to SLN member Jaffar Ud Din for alerting us to the attached article, a heartwarming account of a snow leopard cub being saved by Pakistan's Snow Leopard Foundation, and the Wildlife Conservation Society. X13V0FSLF_SL cub_Rescued_Pakistan ...

Source: Headline Himalaya A study titled "Conservation and Climate Change: Assessing the Vulnerability of Snow Leopard Habitat to Tree Line Shift in the Himalaya" has indicated that of the estimated 270,000 km2 of Snow Leopard habitat in the Himalayan region, about 30% may be lost due to tree line shrinking ...

Thanks to Headline Himalaya for alerting us to this story: Source: http://dawn.com/2012/01/27/snow-leopard-reemerges-in-chitral-forests-2/ CHITRAL, Jan 26: Snow leopard was spotted in the forests near Bakamak and Shali villages in Chitral district on Wednesday and Thursday after long disappearance. An official of the local wildlife department told Dawn on Thursday that the ...

Source: http://www.travelmole.com/news_feature.php?news_id=2005649&c=setreg®ion=2 Author: Valere Tjolle Mass mountain protest against mega ski resort in rare snow leopard territory - Letter sent to President signed by 7,000 campaigners gets snubbed, so "Flesh Mob" take to the snowy peaks to protest. The central part of the National Park - Kok-Zhailyau gorge - is ...

Thanks to SLN member Tshewang Wangchuk for alerting us to the footage below of three snow  leopards, taken by a yak herder with cameras supplied by the Bhutan Foundation. http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=iTLnKmH6T90&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DiTLnKmH6T90 ...

January 2013: Presenting the first-ever evidence of the snow leopard Panthera unica in Kugti Wildlife Sanctuary in Himachal Pradesh, a recently-published paper has recommended further studies to help generate baseline information for conservation of this endangered species. The snow leopard in Kugti Wildlife Sanctuary was sighted dragging its kill (a ...

The trading of big cat pelts is nothing new, but recent demand for snow leopard pelts and taxidermy mounts has added a new commodity to the illegal trade in wildlife products, according to the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA). Traditionally, the market for large cat products has centered around tiger bones ...