Endangered species

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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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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Snow Leopards on endangered Red List

June 4, 2009 Endangered species

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is the world’s most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of plant and animal species. It is the list which ranks the status of each species on the basis of many criteria and helps governments, conservation agencies, the public and policy makers  understand how urgently action is [...]

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More collaring success in Mongolia

May 28, 2009 Endangered species

Read the adventures of “Cookie guy”, also known as Orjan, a Swedish researcher working on radio collaring snow leopards in Mongolia. The locals like laughing at Orjan but he’s sure good at collaring wild snow leopards and collecting huge amounts of field data for the Snow Leopard Trust, an important wildlife protection group. Over the [...]

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Illegal wildlife trade in Asia worth $10 billion

May 6, 2009 Endangered species

Illegal trade in wildlife in Asia is estimated at over $10 billion dollars, second only to weapons and drug smuggling. This is a staggering and potentially depressing story. But ASEAN nations have recently made major commitments at an ASEAN Wildlife Enforcement Network (WEN) meeting to improve enforcement and also halt habitat depletion. A sad case [...]

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