Saving snow leopards

Falling in love with “IRBIS, The Snow Leopard”

April 3, 2012 Kazakhstan

Today Darla Hillard, Education Director of the Snow Leopard Conservancy shares a review of the new book “Irbis, the Snow Leopard” by Oleg and Irina Loginov from Kazakhstan. Darla is the author of the amazing “Vanishing Tracks – four years among the Snow Leopards of Nepal”, the remarkable story of her and Rodney Jackson’s years [...]

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Rodney Jackson 3rd time Indianapolis Prize nominee

March 21, 2012 Saving snow leopards

Dr Rodney Jackson, the first person to radio collar a wild snow leopard and director of the Snow Leopard Conservancy has been announced as a three-time finalist for the Indianapolis Prize, the annual $100,000 award for unique contribution to wildlife conservation. Rodney has done and continues to do a huge job in protecting snow leopards [...]

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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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Dr Tom McCarthy on Panthera’s snow leopard conservation

March 1, 2012 Saving snow leopards

“I wouldn’t have wanted to be in the poacher’s shoes” says Dr Tom McCarthy, Panthera’s Director of Snow Leopard Programs in a fascinating webinar called “The Science behind saving Central Asia’s Mountain Ghost”. Tom was talking about conservation programs where villagers promise not to harm snow leopards in return for support with selling crafts. A [...]

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Snow leopard merry go round in amazing footage

February 16, 2012 Bhutan

Amazing footage of two wild snow leopards sniffing out all the prey that come into their territory has been filmed as part of a survey in Bhutan’s newest national park. The film shows a number of cats scent marking around a particular rock and then all the prey animals that came to the rock in [...]

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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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Nepal loses snow leopard conservationist

November 4, 2011 Nepal

Himalayan conservationists are mourning the untimely death of Dr. Pralad Yonzon of Nepal , the founder of Resources Himalaya Foundation, and the team leader of Environmental Graduates in Himalaya (EGH).  Dr Yonzon was a Fullbright scholar and designed many protected areas in the fragile Himalayas.  In a 2005 interview he spoke of his snow leopard [...]

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Panthera CEO gets Conservation award

October 20, 2011 Saving snow leopards

Congratulations to Panthera CEO Dr. Alan Rabinowitz who has been awarded the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award for Conservation at this year’s Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival. Launched in 1991, the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival attracts hundreds of international leaders in science, conservation, broadcasting and media. Dr Rabinowitz is recognised as one of the world’s [...]

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What would David Attenborough say?

August 30, 2011 Saving snow leopards

A surprising announcement that the BBC wants to close down its 4-year-old Wildlife Conservation Fund, which has raised nearly $5 million for endangered species including snow leopards. The fund has raised the money mainly from fans of their fabulous wildlife documentaries, financing over 80 programs around the world. David Attenborough’s Planet series (in the Mountain [...]

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Kazakhstan snow leopards hit the limelight

July 17, 2011 Kazakhstan

We haven’t written much about the snow leopards of Kazakhstan in this blog as there has been little conservation or research work done there in the past. This is rapidly changing. “IRBIS – The Snow Leopard” about Kazakhstan’s rare snow leopards has just been published in English. Written by biologists Oleg and Irina Loginov this [...]

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