By Patrice O’Shaughnessy of the New York Daily News Tuesday, February 24th 2009, 1:24 AM He's an unassuming man, with gray hair, pale eyes and a measured voice. But if not for ...

On 13 February 2008, Steve Winter won first prize in the Nature Stories category of the 52nd annual World Press Photo Contest for his June 2008 NG article and photographs, "Snow Leopards: Out of the Shadows". About the contest: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...