By SLN member Stefan Michel* At the 8 February 2011, approximately 2:30 pm a young dead snow leopard was found in Darvaz district of Tajikistan’s GBAO province. The area south of village Zighar, located immediately at the Pyanj River at the border with Afghanistan is since several years managed as ...

Written by SLN member Tanya Rosen, NRCC Research Associate. Reprinted from: NRCC News (Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative) annual newsletter: bridging science and policy to advance conservation. Fall 2010, issue 23(1). 12-13. It is a warm July evening and the bus of the Northern Areas Transportation Company has just pulled into ...

Hussain Ali PMAS-Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi/Snow Leopard Foundation Khunjerab National Park (KNP) is situated in the extreme North of the Pakistan and lies between 36o North and 75oEast. Its area is 226,913 ha. It was established in 1975, on the recommendations of famous zoologist George Schaller, with Marco polo sheep ...

http://www.gorno-altaisk.info/news/10893 14 Jan 2011 The Russian Federation's Cabinet of Ministers approved an agreement between the governments of Russia and Kazakhstan to establish the "Altai Transboundary Reserve." A corresponding decree was signed by Vladimir Putin, Russia's Prime Minister, on 27 December 2010. The draft agreement states that the Altai Transboundary Reserve ...

http://www.gorno-altaisk.info/news/10884 13 Jan 2011 The rare species argali hunting case will begin on January 26. This decision was taken at a hearing held on 13 January presided over by Nikolai Lubenitsky, chairman of the Kosh-Agach Rayon court, which is hearing this case. The subject of these preliminary hearings (generally used ...

January 30, 2011 Asian Winter Games Open In Kazakhstan It may not be the Winter Olympics, but Kazakhstan is hoping that the 2011 Asian Winter Games will promote its status as a world-class sporting venue with future Olympic potential. The Asian Winter Games, which kick off today, will bring together ...

Go see Snow Leopards for yourself ISLAMABAD, Jan 16 (APP): In a unique move to tapping country’s flora and fauna aimed at promoting tourism, an adventurous cum joyous safari has been organised to enable the visitors have glance at Snow Leopards through closequarters at sky-touching mountains of Gilgit-Baltistan.A private tour ...

January 12, 2011 Baobab Expeditions, a tour operator of extraordinary, conservation–based journeys to remote and exotic locales, is offering a 17-night expedition to India to see the crucially-endangered Snow Leopard in support of the Snow Leopard Conservancy Trust. The expert-guided trips are available leaving March 26 and December 3, 2011, ...

Three snow leopards snapped in a single capture in Khunjerab National Park Snow leopards are so cryptic in nature and reside in one of the harshest and inaccessible milieus of our planet that encountering with snow leopard in the wild is like a dream. This elusive nature of snow leopard ...

2010-12-29 11:10:00 Shimla, Dec 29 (IANS) The third eye is monitoring the movement of the highly endangered, elusive snow leopard in the cold deserts of Himachal Pradesh. And one of the camera traps has thrown up useful footage - of a pack of dogs attacking and injuring a snow leopard ...