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 ...
Myanmar a gateway for wildlife trade to China: report
(AFP) – 11 hours ago 15 March 2010 DOHA — Demand in China is stoking a black market in neighbouring Myanmar in tiger-bone wine, leopard skins, bear bile and other products made from endangered species, a report released on Tuesday said. "China's border areas have long been considered a hotbed ...
The first snow leopard was successfully photographed in Tuva, Russia
RIA Novosti, translated by Heda Jindrak March 12, 2010 permanent link: http://en.tuvaonline.ru/2010/03/12/5400_snowleopard.html The participants in the first Russian-Mongolian expedition for the study of groupings of irbis (snow leopard), which took place from February 20 to March 7 on the Tsagan-Shibetu ridge (western Tuva), made the first photos of this rare ...
Next round in New Delhi: Gross National Happiness Seminar
GNH (Gross National Happiness) Seminar 14 March, 2010 - The first ever seminar between Bhutan and India on GNH concluded on March 12, with participants from both sides acknowledging the need for more discussion and study for the development philosophy to be successfully implemented. Dasho Karma Ura, the president for ...
Lonely existence for Himachal snow leopard
2010-03-16 11:40:00 He is rugged, handsome and the undisputed monarch of his vast territory, but terribly lonely. Subhash, a nine-year-old snow leopard at a Himachal Pradesh nature park, is waiting for a suitable mate and authorities are worried the forced celibacy could adversely affect his behaviour. Subhash has been living ...