India

Nomadic school kids learn about snow leopards

August 14, 2012 India

Imagine being a nomadic child roaming with your family and animals for months on end during the year. Living in tents and huts while making sure your animals get enough grass to eat on high mountain pastures. It is a hard life but for many children of the Changpa people in Ladakh, India there is [...]

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Snow leopards in streets of Delhi

May 28, 2012 Illegal hunting

A snow leopard and other Asian big cats, are roaming the streets of Delhi. Large banners featuring tigers, leopards and snow leopards have come up around India’s capital and highlight how the cats are threatened by illegal poaching. This is part of a very eye-catching campaign by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) to [...]

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Dogs attack snow leopard over pony kill

May 22, 2012 Dogs and Snow Leopards

“Saving Snow leopards” blog was recently contacted by Gaurav Sharma and his brother Vikas Gupta with the following amazing story of a snow leopard being chased away from its pony kill by village dogs. “It was the summer of 2010 in the beautiful valley of Pin, in Spiti District of Himachal Pradesh, India. The river [...]

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Confusion and fear costs snow leopard life in Kashmir

April 22, 2012 India

Sadly villagers in the remote town of Rawalkot in Kashmir didn’t realise that there has never been a case of a snow leopard attacking a human. Last week a snow leopard climbed up a tree near the village and locals, fearing for their safety, shot the animal dead. It also seems probable that locals sometimes [...]

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Art and crafts help snow leopards

April 22, 2012 India

Felt making is thousands of years old and has been practiced in many cultures to make clothes, tents and toys. The felt fabric is made by matting and pressing wool and this wool is then used to make handicrafts. Recently the villages of Saspoche and Ullay in Sham Valley Ladakh, India were trained in felt [...]

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Jigmet Dadul and team do it again with snow leopard sightings

March 15, 2012 India

Jigmet Dadul from the Snow Leopard Conservancy India Trust (SLC-IT) has done it again! The group he took out in Hemis National Park in Ladakh (India ) with KarmaQuest travel had fantastic multiple snow leopard sightings. This wintertime trek has now had four years in a row of success in tracking and finding a snow [...]

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Interview with Snow Leopard Conservancy India Trust

December 7, 2011 India

I recently did a telephone interview with Radhika Kothari from the Snow Leopard Conservancy India Trust in Leh, the captital of Ladakh in northern India. She talked about the exciting camera research and community conservation programs they are doing, and this is some of the most successful snow leopard conservation work around. Radhika and her [...]

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Want to see snow leopard in the wild?

November 18, 2011 India

Who doesn’t? Earlier this year I had the time of my life watching a snow leopard in the wild in Ladakh, India. I went on a fabulous trek with KarmaQuest and the Snow Leopard Conservancy to the Himalayan mountains in Hemis National Park and with the support and professional tracking of Jigmet Dadul and his [...]

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Snow leopards moving higher onto roof of the world

July 12, 2011 India

Remote snow leopard camera shots shows the cats are moving higher up the mountains than ever before. More villagers are encroaching on snow leopard habitat and putting pressure on natural prey animals like wild sheep and goats. With less food and more people moving into their home territory snow leopards have moved from lower hilly [...]

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Snow leopard sighting near Chadar frozen river

June 5, 2011 India

I got this email and photo from Muntasir Mamum recently who saw a wild snow leopard in the Indian Himalayas in January. Lucky! ”We were a combined team of thirteen from Bangladesh and India up for a winter trekking to Frozen River Chadar which is located in India,  particularly Jammu & Kashmir territory.   I saw that [...]

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