From the TRAFFIC Newsroom: 27 June 2006, Beijing, China...Illegal trade of wildlife species and products continues to flourish despite legislative deterrents and concerted efforts to address this trade that in terms of both size and profit are considered to be huge. To address growing concerns of illegal trans-boundary wildlife trade ...

The Seattle Times examines the illegal (yet still widely accepted) selling of snow leopard skins in the markets of Kabul, Afghanistan. Although the practice is on the decline, Western aid workers and military personnel remain the primary consumers of these immoral and illegal products. SLN member Ghulam Malikyar of Save ...

Many species of Kashmiri animals have greatly benefited from the paramilitary activity that has been taking place in the region since the late 1980’s, with populations rising 20-60 per cent. There are two reasons for this increase in population. Firstly, local residents were required to turn in their arms when ...

The first official Red List of threatened species in Mongolia was presented at a Zoological Society of London lecture on Tuesday, 12 December. The list includes snow leopards as well bears, marmots, many wild ungulates, and even fish. Populations of Mongolia’s threatened species have been declining since the breakup of ...

November 2006- Snow Leopard Trust scientists are currently conducting a radio collaring study of Snow Leopards in the Chitral Gol National Park area in Pakistan.  Five radio collars will be placed on snow leopards over the next couple months, enabling their exact positions and patterns of movement to be monitored ...

This story was published in the Hanford Courant and called to our attention by Professor Richard Benfield:   October 2006- Afghanistan has already seen some of its cultural treasures, such as the Buddhas of Bamiyan, destroyed by the Taliban. And it has watched as ancient artifacts have been looted from ...

October 2006- The Tibet Express, the railway that connects China and Tibet, is fostering illegal commerce and promoting the extinction of endangered species through providing smugglers with faster and safer access to rich clients in Beijing who are interested in buying poached animal products. The railroad was constructed for the ...

The Society for Conservation Biology is now offering access to publications for SCB members in developing countries to offset the high cost of subscribing to academic journals. Although access is free to those members, the membership fee is only 10 USD for those in developing countries, thus ensuring affordable access ...

Human/big cat conflict is increasing at an alarming rate in much of Asia as a result of the growing human population and the resulting stress on the habitat areas of snow leopards, leopards, tigers, and other species of Asian wild cats. This article by Wendy Elliot and published in Pugmark ...

We at the Snow Leopard Network offer our sincerest condolences as we mourn the loss of 24 conservationists who lost their lives in a helicopter accident in Nepal on 23 September, 2006. Each of the victims offered outstanding contributions to the field of snow leopard conservation, and they will undoubtedly ...