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 ...
Bones, skin of snow leopard seized in Dibrugarh, India
Bones, skin of snow leopard seized STAFF CORRESPONDENT, Assam Tribune DIBRUGARH, April 1 – Five kilograms of bones and a fur-covered body skin of a highly-endangered Himalayan snow leopard was seized from one Sanjib Jalan from the heart of the city on March 27. The police led by additional SP ...
Mongolia winter kills herds, devastating the poorest
28 Mar 2010 21:00:18 GMT By Tyra Dempster BEIJING, March 29 (Reuters) - A severe winter has left 4.5 million dead animals in stockyards across the Mongolian steppes, and many poor herders face the loss of all their property just before the important breeding season. About a tenth of Mongolia's ...
Illegal Wildlife Trade Flowing Through Porous China-Myanmar Border
World Sentinel: Newswire Services March 21, 2010 Washington, DC -- Porous borders are allowing vendors in Myanmar to offer a door-to-door delivery service for illegal wildlife products such as tiger bone wine to buyers in China, according to a new report from TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network. The State ...
China and India called on by scientists to collaborate on conservation
Biodiversity knows no 'national boundaries' and nations must protect species from rising consumption, dams and industry Jonathan Watts, Asia environment correspondent guardian.co.uk (http://www.guardian.co.uk/), Thursday 18 March 2010 18.00 GMT Mount Kanchenjunga in the Darjeeling mountains in the Himalayas, a particularly environmentally sensitive area. Photograph: Frederic Soltan/© Frederic Soltan/Corbis China and ...