Tibet

Help get a children’s book about snow leopards get published

October 17, 2012 Books - Childrens

Author and children’s book illustrator, Naomi C. Rose wants to raise money to publish her beautiful book called “Where Snow leopard prowls, wild animals of Tibet”. Naomi and her husband Robin Weeks have a small publishing business, Dancing Dakini Press, but it costs money to publish books so they have taken an entrepreneurial approach and started [...]

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Tibet snow leopard project gets locals involved

November 24, 2011 Community-based conservation

Marc Foggin  is founding director of international NGO Plateau Perspectives and associate professor in the School of Geography and Life Sciences at Qinghai Normal University. He’s worked on conservation and community development projects in Tibet for 15 years. He recently contacted “Saving Snow Leopards Blog” to report on exciting local snow leopard conservation work from [...]

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Tibetan snow leopards speak to us from centuries past

August 3, 2011 Snow leopard habitat

Petroglyphs are rock carvings made by many different cultures around the world since ancient times. People would use sharp stones and other tools to carve drawings into stone to record events and their world. The word comes from the Greek ‘petros’, meaning stone and the word ‘glyphein’, meaning to carve. John Vincent Bellezza is Senior [...]

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Snow leopard blog birthday recipes

October 5, 2009 Blogging

To celebrate the first birthday of the “Saving Snow Leopards” blog I’m going to post a recipe from each of the 12 snow leopard countries in central Asia during the next month. The first one here is one of my favorites – Tibetan Khapseys. They are traditionally made and eaten for Losar – Tibetan New Year. A couple of years [...]

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