Steve Winter on Being Named Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Hello, I wanted to share this with everyone. I have been voted the Wildlife Photographer of the Year for 2008. This is a great honor for myself, the snow leopard and National Geographic magazine! The snow leopard story appeared in the June issue of NGM. I want to thank the ...
Just published in the Journal of Wildlife Management: SLN member article “Assessing Estimators of Snow Leopard Abundance”
The article Assessing Estimators of Snow Leopard Abundance was published in the Journal of Wildlife Management 72(8), pages 1826-1833. 2008. Congratulations to authors Kyle McCarthy, Todd Fuller, Ma Ming, Thomas McCarthy, Lisette Waits, and Kubanych Jumabaev. The article in its entirety is available on the SLN Bibliography and may be ...
Notorius Tiger & Leopard Trader Convicted
Katni, 11 November 2008 The Judicial Magistrate in Katni, Madhya Pradesh, Mr Ajay Singh, today convicted notorious tiger and leopard trader Shabbir Hasan Qureshi of Allahabad to three years rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs. 10,000 on two separate counts. Qureshi and a second accused, Ashok Pardhi, were both ...
The Power of Genetics in Snow Leopard Conservation
The October 2008 issue of Animal Conservation features the first results of the genetic work conducted by Jan Janecka, Texas A&M University, in partnership with the Snow Leopard Conservancy and others. Animal Conservation: Vol 11(5):pages 401-411. Population monitoring of snow leopards using noninvasive collection of scat samples: a pilot study ...
eBay announces ivory ban in wake of IFAW report
(San Francisco, CA – 20 October 2008) – The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW – www.ifaw.org) applauds eBay’s decision to institute a global ban on the sale of elephant ivory products by 1 January 2009 and calls on all other internet traders to follow their example. eBay’s decision was ...
Mongolian Wildlife to be Recorded on Film
Written by Kirril Shields Friday, October 17, 2008 MONGOLIAN wildlife will soon be captured, on camera that is. A Wildlife Picture Index programme is set to begin in January of 2009, aiming to ‘camera trap’ Mongolian mammal and bird species. The program intends to help scientists gain an understanding of ...
WWF Mongolia’s pilot compensation scheme for livestock predation by the snow leopard
WWF Mongolia's pilot compensation scheme for livestock predation by the snow leopard WWF Mongolia has initiated the Compensation scheme for livestock predation by the Snow leopard in order to reduce the retaliation kill rate for Snow leopards. The Compensation Scheme is implementing initially in buffer zone of the Turgen Mountain ...
Exclusive photo of a snow leopard in the Khumbu Valley of Sagarmatha National Park.
NAMCHE, Nepal -- Crouched on the edge of an overhang, looking at his prey. Here's one of the few spectacular photos of a snow leopard living in Nepali forests. The shooting was done by a local photographer, Lhakpa Sonam Sherpa, who managed to immortalize this rare Asian feline near Namche ...
Second Snow Leopard Collared in Mongolia Project
We are pleased to report that early in the morning on 14 September 2008, a second male snow leopard was captured and radio-collared in Mongolia's South Gobi Province as part of a new long-term ecological study of the rare and endangered cats. The research team named the cat "Bayartai", meaning ...
Living with leopards in Northern Pakistan
06 August 2008 | News story from IUCN website An innovative scheme encouraging local communities to live peacefully with leopards has reached a new milestone by extending its range to three new communities in Northern Pakistan. Since June 2005, there have been 13 leopards killed in the Abbottabat district of ...