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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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A snow leopard hunts its dinner

May 4, 2011 India

A fascinating report of a snow leopard killing a wild goat high up in the Indian Himalayas by Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi, who is a research scholar with the Nature Conservation Foundation in Mysore, India. “An hour of hard climbing through knee-deep snow took me to the crest of the plateau at an altitude of 4,500 metres. [...]

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Earth Day, kick the plastic water bottle habit

April 22, 2011 India

It’s the 41st annual Earth Day and organisers have got an online pledge facility happening. Over 100 million people are pledging to make a change in their lives, even litle things like taking shorter showers, planting a vegetable patch and one of my favorites, giving up the purchase of water in plastic bottles. I was [...]

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Another snow leopard habitat discovered in India

April 21, 2011 India
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A camera placed in the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve has captured an image of a snow leopard, the first photographic evidence of the elusive cat in the state of Uttarakhand in northern India. Yogendra Joshi, a member of the Snow Leopard Network says “The legends of this cat know as ‘Him Tendua’ in Hindi has [...]

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