SLN member Shafqat Hussain proposes creating protected areas for Snow Leopards in Pakistan. Source: National Geographic News http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/10/121009-snow-leopards-conservation-big-cats-animals-science/ By Christine Dell'Amore Snow Leopards Need to be Protected... But How? One conservationist has a radial new plan - treating the rare cat as a "domesticated" animal. The snow leopard in Pakistan ...

Read more: http://www.themoscowtimes.com/special/environment/eng/saving-the-snow-leopa rd-with-microfinance.html#ixzz27fNu9J7M> http://www.themoscowtimes.com/special/environment/eng/saving-the-snow-leopar d-with-microfinance.html#ixzz27fNu9J7M The Moscow Times ULUGAN, Altai Republic - In the mountain villages of southern Siberia where Russia abuts China, Mongolia and Kazakhstan, the price of sheep's wool has increased tenfold since 2009. Once, it could be bought for 5 rubles a kilogram, but today local ...

Shimla, Sep 20 (IANS) - The Himalayan blue sheep or bharal, an important prey of the endangered snow leopard, is under threat in the wild from a highly contagious viral infection in the Spiti Valley, the state's northernmost part that runs parallel to the Tibetan border. Wildlife officials say a ...

Congratulations to Snow Leopard Network member Tshewang Wangchuk for being featured by National Geographic! National Geographic - Explorer Tshewang Wangchuk possesses an unusual collection of three hundred scat samples from elusive snow leopards in Bhutan. He gathered these samples with a grant from National Geographic in 2009 to examine the ...

Thanks to SLN member Ali Nawaz for distributing this press release to the SLN. SNOW LEOPARD FOUNDATION "Abundance of signs suggest a healthy population of snow leopards in Misgar-Chapurson”, says Hussain Ali from Snow Leopard Foundation (SLF) on completion of a month long site occupancy surveys in Misgar and Chapurson ...

Wildlife Conservation Society - WAKHAN CORRIDOR, AFGHANISTAN, (July 17, 2012) – Two snow leopards were captured, fitted with satellite collars, and released for the first time in Afghanistan by a team of Wildlife Conservation Society conservationists and Afghan veterinarians conducting research during a recent expedition. The team successfully captured and ...

Washington D.C. (PRWEB) July 16, 2012 Thirty percent of snow leopard habitat may be lost in the Himalayas, due to treeline shift. A new study shows that climate change presents a heightened threat for snow leopards in the Himalaya Mountains, according to conservation group World Wildlife Fund. The study, carried ...

New York, NY – For the first time, the den sites of two female snow leopards and their cubs have been located in Mongolia’s Tost Mountains, with the first known videos taken of a mother and cubs, located and  recorded by scientists from Panthera , a wild cat conservation organization, ...

For the second year in a row a snow leopard was captured by the cameras installed in the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve (NDBR) in the Chamoli district of Uttarakhand. The NDBR is taking technical support of the Dehradun-based Wildlife Institute of India (WII) for this special exercise which began last ...

Congratulations to Yash Veer for publishing this piece in the Tehelka. The future of biodiversity in the higher Himalayas lies outside protected areas The northern part of India is rimmed by a 2,500 km stretch of mountains, the Himalayas, the land of snow. Covering over a million sq km, it ...