Pakistan

One snow leopard kills 68 goats

May 28, 2011 Pakistan

A snow leopard killed 68 domestic goats in six separate incidents, in a remote valley of Gilgit, Pakistan in one night last week. The cat got into the corrals at night in a village near the Pakistan-China border which is one of the country’s main snow leopard habitat regions. Bodies of the animals were scattered [...]

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3 wild snow leopards in one photo!

January 11, 2011 Pakistan

A group of three wild snow leopards have been photographed in a single photo in Khunjerab National Park in northern Pakistan. Supported by Panthera and the Snow Leopard Trust, the Pakistan Snow Leopard Foundation collaborated with the National Park and the Wildlife department in a camera trapping session from late November to end December 2010. [...]

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Pakistan humanitarian disaster in snow leopard habitat

August 18, 2010 Pakistan

Most of you will be aware that Pakistan has snow leopards and that I’ve blogged on snow leopard research there many times. However today I just want to put this blog’s voice towards supporting the humanitarian aid that this country needs after recent events. Sadly catastrophic human suffering is unfolding in Pakistan, with a fifth [...]

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Is it a snow leopard or isn't it a snow leopard?

February 16, 2010 Afghanistan

The discussion continues amongst snow leopard experts on the animal in the night video sent to me recently by a young US Army sergeant, Carl Duke. The video was taken in the war zone on the Pakistan / Afghanistan border with the amazing  Long-Range Advance Scout Surveillance System (LRAS3) from a distance of 8 kilometers. [...]

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Pakistan students concerned about climate change

December 24, 2009 Pakistan

Students from Booni High School in Chitral, northern Pakistan held a Climate Change Vigil rally a few days ago. The young people are concerned about massive degradation to the natural environment linked to global warming. For example the destruction of the village Sonoghor in June 2007 when a glacier overlooking the village burst and in [...]

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Saving sheep from snow leopards, saves the snow leopards

May 24, 2009 India

When snow leopards kill domestic livestock in the villages of the Himalayas they are usually then hunted and killed by the owners in retaliation. It’s easy to understand why villagers would do this. Often these sheep and goats are the only livelihood they have, representing meat and money without which they and their families would [...]

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Snow Leopard – beyond the myth

May 11, 2009 Pakistan

The ABC ran this beautiful program last night, our second snow leopard program on Melbourne TV in a week! It tracks the filming of a female snow leopard and her cub by Nisar Malik, a Pakistani journalist along with cameraman Mark Smith. They spent 18 months and two extreme winters getting footage of the cat [...]

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