Protecting Snow Leopard’s Namesake Cats
This article originally appeared in TidBITS on 2009-09-16 at 3:25 p.m. The permanent URL for this article is: http://db.tidbits.com/article/10570 Protecting Snow Leopard's Namesake Cats by Doug McLean By now you've probably gotten a glimpse at the big cat Apple has been touting as the face of its new operating system, ...
Forget Apple, Here’s the Real Snow Leopard
From Wired.com and By Brandon Keim September 8, 2009 | Even as Apple’s newest operating system puts snow leopards on desktops around the world, the real animal fights for survival in the mountain wilderness of Central Asia. Declared endangered in 1972, between 3,500 and 7,000 cats remain in the wild ...
Wildlife at poachers’ mercy
SURENDRA SUBEDI SANKHUWASABHA, Sept 7 - The absence of a security mechanism at Makalu-Barun National Park (MBNP) has left animals in the park at the mercy of poachers and wildlife traffickers. "Incidents of wildlife trafficking are rife due to the absence of a security mechanism to discourage traffickers and poachers ...
Rare photo shows endangered snow leopard in the wild
A trap camera took this rare photo of a snow leopard. CAPTION By Wildlife Conservation Society The Wildlife Conservation Society released two photos Thursday of a snow leopard, an endangered cat that lives in the high mountains of Central Asia.These photos were taken by a trap camera in Sast Valley ...
Indian Army’s new goal: research flora and fauna on the high altitudes of Northern Himalayan region
FRONT PAGE | Wednesday, August 19, 2009 Army’s valiant bid to trace Brahma kamal, snow leopard Durgesh Nandan Jha | New Delhi For a month beginning next Thursday, a group of soldiers will make a rare attempt in the higher Himalayas to trace the legendary Brahma kamal and the supposedly ...
Tiger, snow leopard numbers dip
SHYAM BHATTA/RAMESH KUMAR POUDEL KATHMANDU/CHITWAN, July 27: The tiger census conducted this year has put the total number of adult tigers in Nepal at 121. Making public the report of the census carried out from November 19, 2008, to March 7, 2009, in 14 districts on Monday, the government said ...
Himachal Pradesh takes steps to consolidate Snow Leopard Conservation
Himachal Pradesh takes steps to consolidate Snow Leopard Conservation Press release from the Himachal Pradesh Forest Department issued on 17 June 2009 In a significant step to strengthen conservation of the Snow Leopard, the state animal of Himachal Pradesh, the wildlife department organized an intensive and constructive brain-storming session with ...
HP to protect endangered snow leopards in the state
This story is from the Chennai Online Jul 02, 2009 Shimla, July 2 The Himachal Pradesh government has submitted a project to the Centre to protect the endangered snow leopards in the state. The state government has submitted a Rs 1.40-crore project to the Centre for the protection and conservation ...
Snow leopards and the art of Olympic environmental diplomacy
The Reuters global sports blog June 23rd, 2009 Posted by: Karolos Grohmann There is an art in dealing with environmental issues when preparing to host Olympic Games.Athens for example, while preparing to host the 2004 Olympics, decided to construct the rowing venue inside a protected nature reserve and just a ...
Capturing the elusive cat
Ashwin Aghor / DNASunday, June 21, 2009 2:50 ISThttp://www.dnaindia.com/scitech/report_capturingMumbai: When Aishwarya Maheshwari saw a sudden cloud of dust rising along the slopes of the mountains he was surveying in the Kargil and Drass sector of Jammu & Kashmir, his hands immediately reached for the binoculars. What he saw made him ...