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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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Wild snow leopard photographed in Tibet / China

June 25, 2010 China
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(See correction on the real source of this photo in the August 1st post). An enterprising amateur photographer, Ma Shengtang, has successfully taken  photos of a wild snow leopard in Zhiduo County in Yushu, Qinghai province of China (formerly Tibet). The photos have been published by Xinhua, the Chinese News Agency and were taken with [...]

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Snow leopards on news map in China

May 10, 2010 China

Now here’s a great idea! Using Google maps to identify the location of news stories about snow leopards in China. Juan Li, a young Ph.D. student  has created this Google map of snow leopards reported during the 20 year period of 1990-2009 by searching the Google News Archive. She says”  I am a Ph.D candidate [...]

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China arrests two Mongolians for smuggling snow leopard skins

May 2, 2010 China

Good to see Chinese authorities clamping down on the illegal snow leopard parts trade. A news story this week reports Chinese police arrested two Mongolian citizens after finding two snow leopard skins and a snow leopard skull hidden inside their jeep at a border checkpoint, state media said Tuesday.Police in the remote Alxa League of [...]

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Xinjiang China snow leopard project expands

April 12, 2010 China

The Xinjiang Snow Leopard Project team is back in China – and they’ve expanded their work from just Xinjiang province to across China, a very big task and we wish them luck! The project has been running for a few years and is headed up by Philip Riordan, senior researcher at Oxford University’s Wildlife Conservation [...]

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Herdsmen in China sentenced to prison for killing snow leopard

March 8, 2010 China

BBC News has reported the following story. “Two herdsmen have been sentenced to eight and 10 years in prison for killing a snow leopard in northwest China’s Xinjiang region. China’s state news agency Xinhua quoted local authorities saying the men had set a trap after wild animals had been preying on their sheep. When a [...]

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China still trading illegal snow leopard skins

October 28, 2009 China

The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) recently conducted undercover investigations into the illegal big cat skin and bone trade in China and found it easy to get tiger, snow leopard and other leopard skins. ‘China has really run out of excuses. They tell us they are doing their best, but we have been warning them about [...]

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George Schaller working magic for snow leopards again

October 8, 2009 China

I’ve mentioned George Schaller many times on this blog – Ok, he’s my hero. He’s probably done more for snow leopard conservation than anyone else on the planet. George won the Indianapolis Prize in 2008 and during 2009 used the money  for snow leopard activities in China. Currently Vice President of Panthera and Senior Conservationist [...]

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Wild snow leopard released

June 11, 2009 China

A female snow leopard was released back into the wild in northwest China this week after receiving care for a respiratory tract infection. She hesitated a few seconds after the cage was opened, then rushed to the woods without looking back at the people in the wildlife protection group who had taken care of her [...]

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In the field – research in Xinjiang, China

February 28, 2009 China

The Xinjiang Snow Leopard Project (XSLP) is an initiative started by the Beijing Forestry University and the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU) at Oxford University. You can read about the project on their website – The team is working closely with the Xinjiang Government and local communities to research what’s happening with snow leopards and [...]

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