Tibet

Tibet snow leopard project gets locals involved

November 24, 2011 Tibet

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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Wild snow leopard photo in China

August 1, 2010 China
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Recently I cited a China news story from Xinhua News Agency about a photo of a wild snow leopard taken by a local amateur photographer. Turns out the Xinhua story wasn’t correct and in fact the photo was taken by Dr Marc Foggin, a Canadian conservation biologist and director of the NGO Plateau Perspectives (PP), [...]

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Wild snow leopard photographed in Tibet / China

June 25, 2010 China
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(See correction on the real source of this photo in the August 1st post). An enterprising amateur photographer, Ma Shengtang, has successfully taken  photos of a wild snow leopard in Zhiduo County in Yushu, Qinghai province of China (formerly Tibet). The photos have been published by Xinhua, the Chinese News Agency and were taken with [...]

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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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