Guest Blogger

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 leopards in zoos, do they really want to be alone?

April 24, 2011 Guest Blogger

Many Zoos around the world with snow leopards have to decide if adult cats should be on their own or housed with other cats. In the wild of course, snow leopards are solitary except for a short mating time and when cubs stay with their mother till adulthood at about 2 years of age. One [...]

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Vegetarian snow leopard saving Himalayan environment

February 5, 2011 Guest Blogger

This month’s Guest Blogger is Professor John Shulman, a man of many talents  and truly inspirational. He’s a graduate of Harvard Law School, an internationally recognized expert in negotiation and conflict resolution and he recently co-wrote and directed the award winning human rights film “Justice.” But today he writes about another passion – the environment, [...]

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Guest Blogger, Jennifer Castner, Director of The Altai Project

December 9, 2010 Guest Blogger

As a result of my trip to the Altai Mountains in southern Russia this year, I got to know Jennifer Castner, Director of the Altai Project (TAP). Jenn, who lives in California, is fluent in Russian and passionate about this part of Russia. She’s lived and studied in Moscow and worked in Kiev and has [...]

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