Bhutan

Guest Blogger Lhendup Tharchen saves snow leopards in Bhutan

February 26, 2013 Bhutan

Lhendup Tharchen is a wildlife biologist and Park Manager in Bhutan. He is originally from Ura, a small village in Bumthang. Lhendup currently works in Jigme Dorji National park and his work focuses on the big cats, snow leopards and tigers, of Bhutan. Bhutan is the only country of twelve snow leopard range countries where [...]

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Snow leopard expert and explorer Tshewang Wangchuck

September 18, 2012 Bhutan

Snow Leopard biologist, Snow Leopard Network member, explorer and Snow Leopard Conservancy board member  Tshewang Wangchuck from Bhutan possesses an unusual collection of three hundred scat (feces) samples from elusive snow leopards in Bhutan. In 2009 Tshewang received a grant from the National Geographic to research snow leopards and their attacks on villager’s livestock in Bhutan. [...]

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Surprising connection between mushrooms and snow leopards

May 11, 2012 Bhutan

Dr Rinjan Shrestha is a conservation scientist for WWF-US, Eastern Himalayas Program and he’s currently in the small Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan working on a project researching snow leopards and mushrooms. Rinjan recently led a survey team that captured the first photographic evidence through camera trap survey that snow leopards are thriving in Wangchuck Centennial [...]

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Snow leopard merry go round in amazing footage

February 16, 2012 Bhutan

Amazing footage of two wild snow leopards sniffing out all the prey that come into their territory has been filmed as part of a survey in Bhutan’s newest national park. The film shows a number of cats scent marking around a particular rock and then all the prey animals that came to the rock in [...]

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How many snow leopards in Bhutan?

January 14, 2011 Bhutan

Tshewang Wangchuk of the tiny Kingdom of Bhutan in the Himalayas is breaking new ground with snow leopard research techniques that don’t involve capture and collaring of the cats. Instead, Tshewang, who is the Bhutan Foundation’s Conservation Adviser and recipient of a National Geographic Society Waitt grant, has collected almost 300 hundred snow leopard droppings [...]

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Poems and paintings of the Princess of Snow

March 18, 2010 Bhutan

Karma Wangchuk from Bhutan, the tiny Himalayan “Kingdom of the Thunder Dragon” sent me some beautiful paintings and poems about snow leopards. Karma teaches English at the College of Education in Paro, one of Bhutan’s main towns. He’s a keen nature lover and loves cooking, trekking, travelling, drama, dance, gardening and music. He has contributed [...]

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Snow leopards and "gross national happiness"

June 10, 2009 Bhutan

Bhutan is the tiny Himalayan kingdom east of Nepal and south of China, that invented the idea of “gross national happiness” being as important as “gross national product. With a population of  only 600,000 (mainly Buddhists), the country’s mountains are excellent habitat for the endangered snow leopard. I visited Bhutan recently and spoke to many [...]

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New conservation area for snow leopards in Bhutan

December 17, 2008 Bhutan

Today the Bhutanese Prime Minister Lyonchhoen Jigmi Y Thinley inaugurated the second largest protected area in the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan. Called Wangchuck Centenary Park (WCP) it is named after the ruling monarchy whose conservation vision made it possible. Covering about 3,736 km sq of the north-central region of the country this new park [...]

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