February 2010

New snow leopard research in Russia

February 22, 2010 Russia

During February-March of 2010 the staff of the biosphere nature reserves “Sayano-Shushenskiy” and “Ubsunurskaya kotlovina” will be carrying out a census of the snow leopard  in the south of the Republic of Tuva, a tiny area in far south Siberia, with just over 300,000 people and remote mountains. They will be supported by the WWF [...]

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Snow leopards and tigers "sister species"

February 22, 2010 Saving snow leopards

Scientists have conducted a DNA analysis of the big cats and found the tiger and snow leopard are “sister species”. Brian Davis, Dr. Gang Li and professor William Murphy published their findings in the journal Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution recently. It has long been known that the five species of big cat, the tiger, lion, [...]

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Shimbu celebrates her 21st birthday

February 22, 2010 Snow leopards in Zoos

Shimbu is one of two adult females at the Melbourne (Australia) Zoo and 2 days ago she celebrated her 21st birthday! Happy birthday to this beautiful cat. Arthur, one of the senior keepers, said she was going well. She had a full medical about a year ago and of course she’s a bit stiff , [...]

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7 year old saves snow leopards

February 21, 2010 Saving snow leopards

I got a lovely message from young Mireya who visited our  blog and learned lots about snow leopards. She’s going to save her money to donate to save them.  Seven years old and already a conservationist and a blogger! Well done Mireya. “I went to a blog called saving snow leopard. I learned that most [...]

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Indian kids camping out in tents and learning about their mountain environment

February 21, 2010 India

Every year the Snow Leopard Trust and the Nature Conservation Foundation India take high school kids on learning camps in the Spiti Valley of the Himalayas. The kids, who rarely do this sort of thing, get to live in tents and learn about the plants and animals (including snow leopards), which share their environment. The [...]

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Happy New Year of the Snow Leopard!

February 16, 2010 Kazakhstan

I’ve received a lovely email from Oleg Loginov, Director of the Snow Leopard Fund Kazakhstan who tells me while the Chinese now celebrate Year of the Tiger, in Kazakhstan and other parts of Central Asia they are celebrating this as year of the Snow Leopard. Go Snow Leopards! By the way, in this part of [...]

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Is it a snow leopard or isn't it a snow leopard?

February 16, 2010 Afghanistan

The discussion continues amongst snow leopard experts on the animal in the night video sent to me recently by a young US Army sergeant, Carl Duke. The video was taken in the war zone on the Pakistan / Afghanistan border with the amazing  Long-Range Advance Scout Surveillance System (LRAS3) from a distance of 8 kilometers. [...]

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Oldest snow leopard dies

February 16, 2010 Snow leopards in Zoos

The world’s oldest snow leopard died this week at Higashiyama Zoo in Nagoya, Japan, at the age of 21 years and 9 months. Patora was a female born at the Zoo in 1988 and had 3 cubs over the years. Patora fell ill earlier this month and was given antibiotics but died of natural causes. [...]

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Snow leopard?

February 12, 2010 Afghanistan

Recently I received video of what appeared to be a snow leopard in Kamdesh District, Nuristan Province, Afghanistan taken by a young sergeant in the US Army. Several experts kindly commented their opinions through the Snow Leopard Network and my Blog, some thought it was a snow leopard and others raised the question as to [...]

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Researchers back at work in Mongolia

February 10, 2010 Mongolia

Orjan is a Swedish PhD student working at the base camp of the Snow Leopard Trust’s long-term research project in Mongolia. Last year he blogged about his work capturing, collaring and collecting valuable data from five of the wild cats. The last few months he’s been away from the project but is now back for [...]

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