http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=51806 Environment: The vanishing wildlife Air Marshal Ayaz A Khan (R) A civilised country guarantees security of life and honour of its citizens, preserves its flora fauna and conserves its birds and animals by proper laws, education and public awareness. In our criminalized society no one is safe any more ...

UNDP/GEF press release regarding the Argut camera trap press release: "With support from the UNDP/GEF project, a seminar for local residents took place in the Argut Valley village of Inegen on August 23-28, 2010. The seminar covered snow leopard monitoring using camera traps and was conducted as part of the ...

Dissecting lions and tigers: Inside Nature's Giants series 2, part III Category: community • mammalogy Posted on: September 6, 2010 9:37 AM, by Darren Naish Given that big cats are more popular (among the general populace) than are either sharks or snakes, it's predictable that this was the most discussed, ...

English.news.cn 2010-09-06 08:02:14 http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/indepth/2010-09/06/c_13479848.htm by Chen Jie BEIJING, Sep. 6 (Xinhuanet) -- The first Chinese expedition to Mount Tomur was politically driven: a move to declare the mountain part of China. It also confirmed Tomur as the highest peak in the Tianshan Mountains, opening the way to scientific expeditions. The ...

Siberian scientists to track snow leopards using 'photo traps' 16:38 03/09/2010 Russian scientists will install special video cameras - so-called photo traps - to monitor endangered snow leopards in southwestern Siberia, the Altai Nature Reserve's deputy security head said on Friday. Russia has an estimated total of 150 of the ...

Don’t shoot the irbis! 21 August 2010 Alexander Kuksin, Center of Asia, translated by Heda Jindrak http://en.tuvaonline.ru/2010/08/21/irbis.html Tuva holds an immense amount of treasures and mysteries. One of these treasures is irbis, the beautiful and mysterious snow leopard, to see whom is a rare fortune. However the officials of the ...

Niexter: Nature’s champion 2010/08/25 By Naden Surya Munusamy, 14, Kedah http://www.nst.com.my/nst/articles/Niexter_Nature__8217_schampion/Article/ SOME people describe heroes as those who lead by example. They are the sort, no matter their age or gender, whom a person can look up to and strive to be like or emulate. They teach us what is ...

Written by Syed Mujahid Ali Shah, by email 15 August 2010 The recent heavy rains in northern mountainous belts of Pakistan are hardly going to spare wild fauna from devastating their habitats as that of human population. Among all such animals, the most concerned specie is snow leopard. They are ...

Biosphere Expeditions: Matthias Hammer After a very successful trial of our Altai scholarship programme this year, I am delighted to announce its continuation & our intention to keep this going for as long as we run expeditions to the Altai. Biosphere Expeditions is now offering three free places to nationals ...

In lambs, a whiff of elusive predator – Prey clue to snow leopard habitat Posted by VoiceofSikkim on Aug 13, 2010 The Telegraph Gangtok, Aug. 12: A two-year project in Sikkim has documented the habitat of snow leopards and their main prey, blue sheep and the Himalayan tahr. The predator ...