Snow leopard habitat

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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VIP poachers acquitted in Russia

May 24, 2011 Illegal hunting

A court in southern Siberia’s Altai Republic acquitted three high ranking Russian officials of hunting endangered animals when their helicopter crashed killing seven others in January 2009. The case in the remote town of Koch Agash, has been over two years coming to court but Judge Nikolai Lubenitsky said yesterday the prosecution (which asked for [...]

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Snow leopards get Angela Merkel’s support

May 24, 2011 Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan in central Asia has around 300 snow leopards living in its mountains. NABU, the German Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union and officials from  Kyrgyzstan announced today they will create a ten year program to protect the endangered snow leopard in this habitat. An international conference to launch the project will be held in 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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Snow Leopard Conservancy celebrates the cat with a camel

May 16, 2011 Snow leopard habitat

The Snow Leopard Conservancy celebrates its 10th birthday next week. Started by world renowned snow leopard expert Dr Rodney Jackson and his wife Darla Hillard, the Conservancy has done ground breaking work in India and other countries to educate communities, research snow leopard habitat and the life of these rare cats. They’ll be putting on [...]

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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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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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Best snow leopard habitat in India?

April 21, 2011 India

I got two inquiries this week from folks in India wanting to know the area  for best chance to see snow leopard. After my fantastic trip in February with the Snow Leopard Conservancy India Trust I have to say Hemis National Park in Ladakh in northern India is special snow leopard habitat. Of course there [...]

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Snow leopard scouts swoop on Sagarmatha

April 8, 2011 Nepal

My friend Dr Som Ale in Nepal has sent me a lovely booklet called “Snow Leopard Scouts From Everest”. Produced by the Snow Leopard Conservancy (SLC) it’s a collection of lively snow leopard and other animal drawings by schools kids in the Everest (called Sagarmatha by local people) region. It tells the story of the [...]

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Gearing up to enter the lair of the snow leopard

January 31, 2011 India

Well Melbourne has finally got it’s summer heat wave, with the last two days being almost 40 degrees. And I’ve just started to put together my gear of thermals, down jackets, sleeping bags and hot water bottle for the Indian Himalaya trip with the Snow Leopard Conservancy next month. Hard to believe that in just [...]

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