Kashmir: Avoidable loss of a leopard (most likely not a snow leopard)
Editorial Posted On Thursday, January 28, 2010Kashmir is notorious for clean felling of jungles and all, from ministers down to forest rangers, are into this business. Militant activities over a period of two decades have also adversely impacted the forests- Proloy Bagchi A national daily reported the other day that ...
China Steps Back From Tiger Trade Ban Lift
January 27, 2010 China (ChattahBox) – After announcing that they were considering lifting the ban on the sale of tiger parts, China has backed away from that debate, instead saying they will be increasing attempts to protect the now endangered animals. The government had been considering removing the ban that ...
LE JOURNAL DE LA CONSERVATION: new French online journal features article on snow leopards
A new magazine called “LE JOURNAL DE LA CONSERVATION” has just been published online ...
Project launched to save endangered snow leopard (India)
SRINAGAR, FRIDAY, 14 MUHARRAM 1431 AH ; FRIDAY, JANUARY 01, 2010 CE Project launched to save endangered snow leopard ARIF SHAFI WANI Srinagar, Dec 31: The State Government has started work on an ambitious project to save the existing population of the endangered Snow Leopard in its bastion, the higher ...
As the glaciers recede… (Ladakh)
Chennai, December 6, 2009 MEENA MENON Ladakh has an unwelcome visitor: Climate change. Retreating glaciers, water scarcity and changes in traditional agricultural patterns are having an adverse impact on this fragile ecololgy.There' s an old saying in Ladakh that only a dear friend or a serious enemy will reach here; ...
Support a polar bear or a snow leopard for that matter
Support a polar bear Monday December 7, 2009 Or a snow leopard for that matter. A ski company is sponsoring the animals and we're backing them here at PlanetSKI. The new company, Zenith Holidays, is donating funds to the World Wildlife Fund to support the polar bear and will give ...
Himachal carries out snow leopard census
Lata Verma Tags : snow leopard, conservation Posted: Friday , Dec 04, 2009 at 0021 hrs Shimla: Bringing cheer to conservationists and animal lovers, a census has found four to five highly endangered snow leopards on Kibber plateau in Himachal’s Lahaul Spiti district. The census, undertaken as part of the ...
Snow Leopard Vodka Management Change
Fri 4 Dec 2009 Graeme Lindsay, marketing director of Whyte and Mackay has left with another job to go to. Whyte and Mackay has confirmed that Lindsay left his role at the Glasgow whisky brand this week and will take some time out over Christmas and New Year before beginning ...
Indian trail of ‘the ghost of the mountains’
A tourism initiative is helping Indian farmers learn to love the endangered predator that targets their flocks. Adrian Phillips reports Sunday, 6 December 2009I'm sitting on the floor wrapping dough round my fingers. Alongside me, my hostess pulls and pinches her paste into delicate bows, all the while watching my ...
Photographer Steve Winter’s snow leopard photographs currently on display in London
December 1, 2009 Story behind the picture: Snow Leopard, 2008 Photographer Steve Winter on his candid picture of the elusive cat Steve Winter The editor of National Geographic asked its photographers: “What would be your dream project?” I wrote “snow leopards”. I’d read a book about them years before I ...