Snow leopard habitat

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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More snow leopards found in Afghanistan

July 17, 2011 Afghanistan

News from a recent snow leopard study in Afghanistan suggests the war torn nation may have a healthy cat population in the mountains of the northeastern Wakhan Corridor. The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), supported by USAID, used camera traps to photograph the solitary and shy cats. The study has been reported in the June 29 [...]

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Poacher spotting device to help Russia’s snow leopards

July 12, 2011 Illegal hunting

Sean Burnett and Greg Carney are Canadian economists with a hobby that may save snow leopards in the Altai region of Russia. They’ve invented a poacher-spotting device that employs heat detectors, underground sensors and satellite GPS monitoring to catch illegal hunters. Their Remote Anti-Poaching Intelligence Device uses heat sensor technology attached to a GPS which [...]

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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 killed by villagers in Nepal

June 23, 2011 Nepal

This videos was shot during the snow leopard survey in upper Dolpo, Mid- Western Himalayas of Nepal. The snow leopard was killed and thrown into a cave to take revenge for it killing village sheep. Unfortunately where humans and these rare cats live so close together snow leopards do sometimes attack village livestock and villagers [...]

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Poachers say they found snow leopards already dead

June 6, 2011 Illegal wildlife trade

A followup to the recent story about snow leopard poachers’ arrest in Nepal by WWF Nepal staff who were involved in the operation. “Two poachers involved in trading of body parts of endangered wild animal were arrested on 28 may 2011 from Mustang district, a district situated inside the Annapurna Conservation Area Project (ACAP). The [...]

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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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Thinking of snow leopards and koalas

June 5, 2011 Snow leopard habitat

As I sit looking out on the cold and rainy Otways Forest in southern Australia today, I’m thinking about World Environment Day (WED), a UN initiative that started in 1972. WED is the one of the main vehicles for the United Nations to stimulate worldwide awareness of the environment through political attention and action. This [...]

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WCN snow leopard conservation

June 5, 2011 Saving snow leopards

Late last year I was lucky to get to the Wildlife Conservation Network annual event in San Francisco and met many people from WCN and  supporters. It was an inspiring day. The WCN supports amazing wildlife conservationists like Iain Douglas Hamilton of Save the Elephants, Laurie Marker of Cheetah Conservation Fund and Rodney Jackson, founder [...]

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No Paradise for these two snow leopards in Nepal

May 31, 2011 Illegal wildlife trade

A shocking story greeted the readers of Kathmandu Post in Nepal  yesterday. It showed this photo of two snow leopard pelts. Two people have been arrested in Mustang in Nepal (where it is illegal to kill the cats) with the hides of the two snow leopards. One is the owner of the Paradise Guest House [...]

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