Endangered species

Can we afford to save species from extinction?

October 23, 2012 Endangered species

Saving the world’s endangered species like snow leopards and tens of thousands of others, will cost $US80 billion a year, estimates a coalition of international conservationists and academics. Naturally people are asking can we afford it? But here’s the punch line according to a story in the UK Guardian. This amount is half that spent [...]

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Wildlife Conservation Network has biggest Expo

October 27, 2011 Endangered species

Hard to believe it’s a year since I attended the Wildlife Conservation Network  Annual Wildlife Conservation Expo in San Francisco last year. WCN recently had their 10th Annual Expo and the biggest yet, with 1,100 guests and 22 of the world’s best wildlife conservationists. Keynote speaker this year was Dr. Jane Goodall and I’m sorry [...]

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Despair to hope – wildlife conservation stories at Conservation Day

October 5, 2010 Endangered species

“You can’t have cats without a lot of cat food” is how Dr Ullas Karanth from Wildlife Conservation Society India spoke about his work saving tigers in India. “Fifty years ago I thought there was no hope for tigers but with so much work being successful I’m quietly optimistic. But conservation is long term, you [...]

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Mr Big wildlife smuggler sentenced

September 8, 2010 Endangered species

If snow leopards and other endangered wildlife protection is going to be meaningful then prosecution for offenders is vital. Good news today that Anson Wong from Penang in Malaysia, dubbed “ the world’s most notorious wildlife dealer, has been sentenced to prison after a lock on his suitcase containing legally protected snakes broke on an [...]

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Every day has to be Environment Day for snow leopards

June 5, 2010 Endangered species
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Today is World Environment Day 2010  – June 5th. This year’s UN theme  “Many Species – One Planet – One Future” made me reflect on just how important it is right now, this day, this month, this year, to focus our efforts on endangered wildlife before it’s too late. This means a big effort to [...]

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Most kids not aware of endangered animals

May 20, 2010 Endangered species

This story fom AFP today. “Ten times more children around the world rank watching television and playing video games as more important to them than saving the environment, according to a survey released Wednesday. Earth’s flora and fauna are disappearing 1,000 times faster than the natural extinction rate, but only nine percent of kids gave [...]

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Former Kyrgyz President had private zoo with snow leopard cubs

April 29, 2010 Endangered species

Update on yesterdays story about the snow leopard cubs in an illegal private zoo in Kyrgyzstan. BBC News confirms the property belonged to former President Bakiyev. “A pair of snow leopards and two bear cubs were among the exotic animals found in the private zoo of ousted Kyrgyzstan President Kurmanbek Bakiyev. A golden eagle, two [...]

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Good news from UN meeting on illegal wildlife trade

April 12, 2010 Endangered species

We can be cautiously optimistic about news from Doha in Qatar where the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) has been meeting. Seems an agreement has been reached on wildlife trade which could mean that trading in illegal tiger parts will be treated as seriously as dealing in arms and drug trafficking. [...]

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Herders leaving way of life as climate change affects them

January 8, 2010 Endangered species

With the Copenhagen conference late last year I posted a few stories on how climate change is affecting the Himalayas and in consequence the local people and the wildlife. Researchers recently found dramatic changes in Ladakh, northern India where nomads made their living for centuries herding goats, yak and sheep. They found that many herders [...]

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Russian borscht recipe…Russia is also home to snow leopards

January 6, 2010 Endangered species

Late last year when this blog celebrated its first birthday I said I’d cook a recipe from every country that has snow leopards (12 of them.) So far I’ve posted a Mongolian recipe – Buuz, a savoury pastry filled with meat and Tibetan Khapseys – a  Tibetan New Year bread like donut. Russia is another [...]

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