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 ...
HIMALAYAN GLACIERS MAY DISAPPEAR WITHIN DECADES
Himalayan glaciers are melting fast and may disappear within decades, affecting as many as 750 million people downstream who depend on the glacial melt for their water, according to a new UN report. Rivers in the region such as the Ganges, the Indus and the Brahmaputra, as well as others ...
Russia’s snow leopard population declines by half
Source: Russian News and Information Agency NOVOSIBIRSK, March 7 (RIA Novosti) - The number of snow leopards in Russia's southwestern Siberian Altai Republic has fallen from 40 in the late 1990s to 10-15, the director of the Gorny Altai nature preserve said on Friday. Russia has an estimated total of ...
South Asian nations pledge cooperation on rampant wildlife trade
Source: WWF Web Site An Uttar Pradesh, India seizure consisted of 70 leopard skins, four tiger skins, black buck skins, 18,000 leopard claws, and 132 tiger claws. © Rahul Dutta, TRAFFIC India 06 Feb 2008 Kathmandu, Nepal – All eight South Asian nations have agreed to step up cooperation in ...
Long-term Ecological Study of Snow Leopards to be Launched in Mongolia
Today the Snow Leopard Trust (SLT) announced the initiation in Mongolia of the first ever long-term comprehensive ecological study of snow leopards. The program is a collaborative effort involving SLT, Snow Leopard Conservation Fund (Mongolia), Felidae Conservation Fund, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), Mongolia’s Ministry of Nature and Environment, and the ...