First Snow Leopard Captured in Long-Term Ecological Study in Mongolia
In the early morning of 19 August a young adult male snow leopard was captured and fitted with a GPS collar in Mongolia's South Gobi Province as part of a new long-term ecological study of the rare and endangered cats. The collar is designed to collect highly accurate locations for ...
Illicit trade in big cat skins continues in China
By Paul Eccleston The illicit trade in skins from Asian big cats is still flourishing in China. July 15, 2008- The skins of snow leopards, leopards and tigers are openly on sale in shops, an investigation has revealed. Photographic evidence of cat skins on sale in China Buyers come from ...
Foreigners threaten Afghan snow leopards
By Jonathon Burch KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's snow leopards have barely survived three decades of war. But now the few remaining mountain leopards left in Afghanistan face another threat -- foreigners involved in rebuilding the war-torn country. Despite a complete hunting ban across Afghanistan since 2002, snow leopard furs regularly ...
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 ...