First ever long-term ecological study of snow leopards underway
JUNE 11: The Snow Leopard Trust (SLT) today announced the successful launch of a new long-term study of snow leopards with the establishment of the J. Tserendeleg Snow Leopard Research Center in Mongolia’s South Gobi Province. Located in the Tost mountains, approximately 250 km west of the provincial capital of ...
The Kanchenjunga conservation area
The New Nation: Bangladesh’s Independent News Source, Internet Edition. May 26, 2008 http://nation.ittefaq.com/issues/2008/05/26/news0731.htm The Kanchenjunga conservation area It was 10 years ago when the staffs of DNPWC and WWF Nepal who had gone for feasibility study in KCA were chased away by locals fearing that they would be removed from ...
Snow leopards featured in National Geographic… Out of the Shadows: The elusive Central Asian snow leopard steps into a risk-filled future.
By Douglas H. Chadwick Photography by Steve Winter The full article from the June 2008 issue of National Geographic may be read and photographs may be viewed at: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/06/snow-leopards/chadwick-text/2 ...
Protecting the predator
From: India Today By Sandeep Unnithan May 15, 2008 Till a few years ago, whenever the people of the picturesque Kibber village in Himachal Pradesh’s Spiti valley discovered that their cows and yaks were killed by the snow leopard, they would try to poison or trap the elusive cat. Today, ...
Bhutan tigers reach new high
From “The Hindu” Online edition of India's National Newspaper Monday, May 19, 2008 Thimphu: Bhutan is the only country to have tigers at incredibly high altitudes, where their habitat is overlapping those of the elusive snow leopards, conservationists in the Himalayan country have claimed. Fresh pictures and pugmarks from the ...
DNA profiling to find Bhutan`s snow leopard count
From zeenews.com: Thimphu, May 20: With tigers and wild dogs encroaching habitat of snow leopards and little information available about their spread and abundance, scientists in Bhutan are mulling genetic fingerprinting to know more about this elusive animal. The technique, used along with a modern graph calculation system, will provide ...
Snow Leopard Conservation Fund (SLCF) is to coordinate international and national information sharing on snow leopard conservation and research in Mongolia
The March 2008, international snow leopard conference in Beijing passed three major resolutions. The first being for national focal points to be formed in each of the snow leopard range countries. The focal points will coordinate the communications and exchange of information on snow leopard conservation and research both international ...
The documentary “Snow Leopard: Beyond the Myth” was chosen “Best of Festival” at this year’s International Wildlife Film Festival.
The following article appeared in the Missoulian on 8 April 2008:Newly edited ‘Snow Leopard' best of IWFF By JAMIE KELLY of the MissoulianThe film chosen Best of Festival for this year's International Wildlife Film Festival has already been seen in Missoula. However, “Snow Leopard: Beyond the Myth” underwent plenty of ...
Resolutions of the International Conference on Range-wide Conservation Planning for Snow Leopards Beijing, China March 2008
In Memoriam In recognition of the her pivotal role in bringing the plight of the snow leopard into the world’s consciousness and in championing broad conservation efforts to save the species across its range, the participants of this conference wish to honor Helen Freeman by dedicating the outcomes and stipulated ...
Beijing Conference on Snow Leopards Called “Watershed Event”
The international conference on Range-wide Conservation Planning for Snow Leopards held in Beijing, China, from 7 – 11 March, was deemed a major success by the conference organizers which included the Panthera Foundation, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), Snow Leopard Trust (SLT), Snow Leopard Network (SLN), and the Chinese Institute of ...