KaraFilm festival: Informative, thought-provoking films mark third day
Saturday, February 07, 2009 By our correspondent http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=161144 Karachi The third day of the Kara Film Festival saw a flurry of activity with a screening of 11 films, seven short ones, two documentaries, and two feature films. Within the short films section was the 48-minute local film, “Gurmukh Singh ki ...
Wildlife – Kashmir’s Other Conflict
ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: Wildlife - Kashmir's Other Conflict By Athar Parvaiz SRINAGAR, Feb 5 (IPS) - Decades of separatist militancy in Indian Kashmir and the massive response to it by the armed forces have taken a toll on human life. But, what is less known is the fact that this and other ...
Shafqat Hussain honored for work with snow leopards
http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/news/chiefeditor/2009/02/national-geographic-explorers.html Eli honored for work with snow leopards Ilana Seager Staff Reporter Published Wednesday, February 4, 2009 Love is blind, and Shafqat Hussain GRD ‘08 learned this the hard way. Despite having devoted his professional life to his passion for saving snow leopards, the closest he has come to one ...
Leopard killed in Kashmir
Published: January 27,2009 Srinagar, Jan 27: Following heavy snowfall in the upper reaches of Kashmir, the wild animals are moving to the plains, leading to incidents of man-animal conflict. In one recent instance, a leopard was killed by people after sighting it in a village in Kashmir.A police official said ...
Poaching by Helicopter a Popular Pastime
23 January 2009 By Anna Malpas / Staff Writer Moscow Times When a helicopter carrying senior government officials crashed into a remote Altai mountainside earlier this month, killing several passengers, the accident appeared to be nothing more than a tragic loss of life. But photographs snapped at the crash site ...
Project Snow Leopard Launched
Project Snow Leopard Launched 20 January 2009 Innovative Conservation Project for Indian High Altitudes Project Operational in Five Himalayan States viz. Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, and Arunachal Pradesh Thiru S. Regupathy said that Project Snow Leopard is a manifestation of the Government of India’s resolve ...
Seminar Announcement: The Challenge of Development in Energy-related Projects and Climate Change Adaptation Strategies in the Cold Regions of Asia
In partnership with the GTZ (German Technical Cooperation), the European Union, ADEME (French Environment and Energy Management Agency) and Fondation Ensemble, GERES (Group Renewable Energy, Environment and Solidarity), an international French NGO specialised in energy and climate change issues, is organising a regional seminar on 'The Challenge of Development in ...
Dr. George Schaller honored with the China Environment Prize
American Biologist Honored With China Environment Prize NEW YORK, New York, December 19, 2008 (ENS) - Dr. George Schaller, a world reknowned field biologist and conservationist, has been awarded the China Environment Prize for his efforts to study and protect China's giant pandas, Tibetan antelope, and China's wild places. Schaller ...
Dr. Ablimit Abdukadir nominated for the prestigious Wildlife Conservation Society International “Chinese Frontier Wildlife Bodyguard Award”
On December 13, 2008, WCS International organized a present reward ceremony of “the Chinese Frontier Wildlife Bodyguard Award” take place Beijing, the big hall of literature information center of Chinese Academy of Science. Ablimit Abdukadir，IUCN/CSG and SLN member, Professor of the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography，Chinese Academy of ...
Commercial Hunting Endangers Rare Central Asian Sheep Species: Wildlife researchers say Marco Polo sheep under threat of extinction
Published 2008-12-12 Edited by Rich Bowden Wildlife researchers are concerned a rare sub-species of Central Asian sheep known as Marco Polo sheep (Ovis ammon polii) is under threat of extinction because of widespread commercial hunting in Central Asian states such as Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Found in the Pamir Mountains, on ...