Tiger skin trade in China exposed By Jody Bourton Earth News reporter An undercover investigation has revealed the continued trade in tiger skins in China. Covert filming by the Environment Investigation Agency shows traders selling skins of tigers and other rare animals such as snow leopards. The skins are sold ...

Oct 16, 2009 11:03 AM in Scientific AmericanBy John PlattCaptive breeding of endangered snow leopards (Panthera uncia) has relied since 1976 on an international studbook that matches animals at zoos around the world for purposes of keeping the big cats from becoming too inbred. Breeding via studbook, however, is a ...

Sunday October 11, 2009 They are one of the most beautiful animals on the planet, but they are an endangered species. Here on PlanetSKI we set out to discover a little bit more about them. We first wrote about snow leopards when we found they were being bred in captivity ...

October 7, 2009 Acclaimed animal conservationist vies for $100,000 award INDIANAPOLIS --- Rodney Jackson, Ph.D., is one of 29 animal conservationists nominated to receive the Indianapolis Prize, the world’s leading award for animal conservation. Jackson, a San Francisco Bay Area resident and founder-director of the Snow Leopard Conservancy, has been ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE from Indianapolis Zoo   September 24, 2009 Indianapolis Prize Winning Conservationist Fights for Snow Leopards’ Survival INDIANAPOLIS --- As Vice President of Panthera and Senior Conservationist for the Wildlife Conservation Society, George B. Schaller, Ph.D., is relentless in his pursuit to save endangered species across the globe. The winner ...

Layaps livid with leopards  A trio of tamzees is attacking livestock at will with no fear of consequence 28 September, 2009 - The Layaps are paying what they call the “price of the government’s conservation effort” as their cattle fall prey to wild animals. This time, it’s the tamzee (leopard) ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...