News from WWF Mongolia office: Biodiversity day was celebrated in Mongolia
(Please click on the following link - in orange - in order to view photos of the celebration.) Biodiversity Day celebration in Mongolia UN proclaimed 2010 to be the International Biodiversity year. In the range of this year, biodiversity day was celebrated worldwide last Saturday, 22nd May. Mongolia was also ...
The Research School at Nordens Ark 3-8 October 2010
A joint project between Nordens Ark and Hasselblad Foundation topics of conservation in the wild, rearing ex situ and reintroduction of threatened Felid species Financed by the Hasselblad Foundation Organized by Claes Andrén, Leif Blomqvist and Lena M Lindén (Nordens Ark) Conservation Biology at Nordens Ark 2010 A research school, ...
Drought followed by harsh winter spells disaster
By Karen Percy in Ulan Bator, Mongolia Updated Wed May 26, 2010 4:07pm AEST Disaster zone ... A herder on the way to the local burial ground in the Zuunbayan-Ulaan district of Mongolia. (ABC News: Karen Percy) It is an awe-inspiring sight: the vast plains of Mongolia where animals roam ...
Herders contribute to conservation in the Altai Mountains in Mongolia
20 May 2010 By Onno van den Heuvel, Environment and Energy Programme Officer The Altai Mountains are home to a variety of endangered species such as the snow leopard and the world’s largest wild sheep altai argali. Inhabited mainly by nomads, these mountains - stretching from the Gobi Desert in ...
Kazakhstan faces many severe environmental issues
http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/Asia-and-Oceania/Kazakhstan-ENVIRONMENT.html Note: We have no information re: the source of this article's information or what date this was published online. Located May 2010. Kazakhstan faces several important environmental issues. As the site of the former Soviet Union's nuclear testing programs, areas of the nation have been exposed to high levels ...
In Western Tuva, the conflict between the snow leopard and local residents remains active
May 12, 2010 from Tuva Online According to the research data of WWF, the conflict between the snow leopard and the residents of Western Tuva remains active. The leopards are in danger of getting shot by the herdsmen in revenge for attacks on domestic livestock. WWF continues to actively work ...
Map of Snow Leopard In the Chinese Media
Follow this link below to a map created by by SLN member Juan Li, that shows snow leopards reported in the Chinese news media between 1990-2009 by searching Google News Archive. http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=115478130462717217242.00047205c7146574a3d87&z=4 ...
China arrests two Mongolians for smuggling snow leopard skins
Beijing 27 April 2010 - Chinese police arrested two Mongolian citizens after finding two snow leopard skins and a snow leopard skull hidden inside their jeep at a border checkpoint, state media said Tuesday. Police in the remote Alxa League of north China's Inner Mongolia region spent 10 hours searching ...
Rodney Jackson Named Finalist for the 2010 Indianapolis Prize: Award Celebrates Outstanding Achievement in Animal Conservation
Press release from the Indianapolis Zoo, Indiana, US: April 13, 2010 INDIANAPOLIS --- Graceful, powerful, supremely adapted to life at high altitudes, this animal’s most dangerous attribute is its stunningly beautiful coat of spotted fur, a coat that has brought the species near to extinction. But the snow leopard has ...
Locals Fleecing Professional Blue Sheep Hunters, Nepal
Nepal: Professional hunters who come to hunt the blue sheep and Himalatan tahr in Dhorpatan Hunting Reserve, are forced to pay more than six-fold to local communities than their hunting fee set by the government. A hunter has to pay NPR 40,000 for a trophy blue sheep and Rs 20,000 ...