India – Central plan announced to save endangered species
May 25, 2012 Union minister of state for forests Jayanthi Natarajan on Wednesday announced a recovery programme for saving critically endangered species and their habitats. Under the initiative, 16 species have been identified for support. This includes snow leopard, bustards (including floricans), dolphin, hangul, Nilgiri tahr, marine turtles, dugongs and ...
On the trail of snow phantoms
Congratulations to Yash Veer in publishing this piece in the Deccan Herald. May 22, 2012: Yash Veer Bhatnagar charts out the efforts of The Snow Leopard Trust and other organisations in unravelling the mysteries of the elusive snow cat. ‘Stones of Silence’, a classic by the renowned naturalist George Schaller ...
Discoveries in Northern Part of Snow Leopard Range
Snow Leopard Network member Evgeniy Kashkarov recently distributed an article on his recent findings of snow leopards in two areas, based on unusual migration patterns. The first area is Tofalaria – the northern abrupt edge of Central Sayan Mountains on 540 N latitude (intersection of Western and Eastern Sayan Mountains), ...
Rare snow leopards photgraphed by World Wildlife Fund
(AP) SRINAGAR, India - A pair of rare, reclusive snow leopards have been photographed wandering a remote, mountain region once ravaged by conflict between India and Pakistan. Infrared camera traps set up months ago by World Wildlife Fund-India filmed the adult snow leopards in Kargil district just a few miles ...
Snow leopard diet determined by DNA analysis of fecal samples
Knowledge about animal diet can inform conservation strategy, but this information can be difficult to gather. A new DNA-based method, which analyzes genetic material from feces, could be a useful tool, and researchers have shown its utility to characterize the diet of snow leopards in Mongolia. The full results are ...
WWF Pakistan Nature Carnival Declares Winner
LAHORE: The World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan (WWF) on Monday announced winners of the nature carnival that was held on Sunday. Students of Roots School System (RSS), Model Town were declared winners of the WWF Nature Carnival 2012 for the second year in a row. Rootsians displayed a ground-breaking and ...
Crime chiefs agree to get tough on illegal tiger trade
By Mark Kinver Environment reporter, BBC News http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17041183 Crime chiefs from countries with populations of wild tigers have agreed to work together in order to combat the illegal trade in the big cats. Heads of police and customs from 13 nations agreed to tighten controls and improve cross-border co-operation at ...
Power project in Uttarakhand hits green tribunal hurdle
Flowers will continue to bloom in the world heritage site Valley of Flowers in Uttarakhand as the National Green Tribunal has stayed work on a controversial power project in buffer zone of the Valley that was approved by the environment ministry. The tribunal this week stayed the approval given by ...
Elusive snow leopards seen thriving in Bhutan park
(Reuters) - The elusive, endangered snow leopard is apparently thriving in a park in Bhutan, as seen in camera trap images released on Tuesday by the government of Bhutan and World Wildlife Fund. Over 10,000 pictures of the snow leopards were captured last October and November by four cameras placed ...
Congratulations to Rod Jackson for his nomination for the Indianapolis Prize
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/02/12/MNU11MQII3.DTL&type=science&ao=2 Rodney Jackson on a mission to save the snow leopard Meredith May, Chronicle Staff Writer, SFgate.com Sunday, February 12, 2012 Biologist Rodney Jackson can pinpoint the moment he transformed from a student of nature to a full-blown conservationist. While walking along a river in Nepal in 1977, he came ...