August 2010

Pakistan humanitarian disaster in snow leopard habitat

August 18, 2010 Pakistan

Most of you will be aware that Pakistan has snow leopards and that I’ve blogged on snow leopard research there many times. However today I just want to put this blog’s voice towards supporting the humanitarian aid that this country needs after recent events. Sadly catastrophic human suffering is unfolding in Pakistan, with a fifth [...]

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Back from the snow leopard search in Russia

August 10, 2010 Russia

Seeing a snow leopard in the wild must be the ultimate experience for big cat lovers. Sadly it wasn’t to be for me, the animal remained as mystical and elusive as ever. But there were so many other exciting animals and experiences during this Biosphere Expeditions research trip in the remote Altai Mountains of southern [...]

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Wild snow leopard photo in China

August 1, 2010 China
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Recently I cited a China news story from Xinhua News Agency about a photo of a wild snow leopard taken by a local amateur photographer. Turns out the Xinhua story wasn’t correct and in fact the photo was taken by Dr Marc Foggin, a Canadian conservation biologist and director of the NGO Plateau Perspectives (PP), [...]

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