Mongolia

Snow Leopard Enterprises wins BBC World Challenge

December 7, 2011 Mongolia

Wow, great news. Snow Leopard Enterprises has won the BBC Worlld Challenge. It was considered an innovative business model that also benefits the environment. The program helps herders in Mongolia make and sell fine wool handicrafts to increase their income. In turn, herders sign conservation contracts pledging to protect snow leopards living in their area. [...]

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Last chance to vote for snow leopards on BBC Challenge

November 10, 2011 Mongolia

Just a reminder if you haven’t voted in the BBC World Challenge the Snow Leopard Enterprises are in the competition and would love to have your vote. This fabulous project supported by the Snow Leopard Trust helps local women sell handicrafts and earn income and help protect the magnificent snow leopard that shares their Mongolian [...]

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Help snow leopards win BBC World Challenge

September 28, 2011 Mongolia

One of my favorite Snow Leopard conservation projects is a finalist in the BBC World Challenge Competition. Please vote for Mongolian Snow Leopard Enterprises  This wonderful organisation helps save snow leopards in Mongolia by providing villagers with income producing alternatives so that they do not poach the endangered cats. Women all across central Asia are [...]

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Adopt a candid camera and snoop on snow leopards in Mongolia

August 9, 2011 Mongolia

The Snow Leopard Trust’s (SLT) long term research project in Mongolia (partnering with Mongolian agencies and Panthera) is raising money by asking people to adopt one of the remote sensor cameras they’ve set up in the South Gobi province to film snow leopards in this beautiful region. This is a lovely way to support ground-breaking [...]

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Electronic surveillance tells us new things about snow leopards

July 26, 2011 Mongolia

Electronic surveillance has been in the news a lot lately lately with illegal happenings in the Murdoch UK newspaper empire. But one place where surveillance is OK is in the work researchers do in snow leopard habitat. Snow leopards are so notoriously shy that the use of camera traps (which are set off by the [...]

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Snow leopard protected by Mongolian herder

May 22, 2011 Mongolia

Ganaa is a herder from a small community in Mongolian snow leopard habitat of the Tost Mountains. Here Panthera and Snow Leopard Trust are doing a world first long-term snow leopard research project. Ganna lives in a tent nearby and makes his living from a herd of domestic livestock. Traditionally herders like Ganaa and the [...]

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How many people did it take to save the snow leopards of Mongolia?

April 11, 2011 Mongolia

Regular readers of this Blog will recall that last month there was a successful campaign to convince the government of Mongolia to overturn a decision to allow the killing of four snow leopards for ‘research’ purposes. This was a hugely important decision and could not have been achieved without the hard work and dedicated lobbying [...]

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We did it! Mongolian snow leopards saved

March 24, 2011 Mongolia

News just in this morning from Dr Tom McCarthy from Panthera. Tom writes to over 3500 people who signed their petition  – “Thanks to your help in signing and sharing Panthera’s petition, the Mongolian government has just announced the cancellation of the planned hunting of at least four snow leopards – and possibly many more [...]

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Help stop 4 snow leopards being killed in Mongolia

March 22, 2011 Mongolia

The Mongolian government announced 4 snow leopards (and possibly more) could be hunted and killed for ‘research purposes’. Snow leopard conservationists everywhere are shocked as Mongolia has been at the forefront of conserving the endangered cats in Asia. Conservation agency Panthera, which is leading collaborative and groundbreaking research in the South Gobi region of Mongolia, [...]

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Years end good news for snow leopards in Mongolia

December 29, 2010 Mongolia

The Snow Leopard Trust has announced the Ministry of Geology and Mineral Resources have approved important snow leopard habitat in the Tost Mountains of southern Mongolia as official “Local Protected Area”. The SLT and the community lobbied hard in the face of many licenses for mining exploration in the area. It took three applications but [...]

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