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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Wildlife Conservation Network has biggest Expo

October 27, 2011 Endangered species

Hard to believe it’s a year since I attended the Wildlife Conservation Network  Annual Wildlife Conservation Expo in San Francisco last year. WCN recently had their 10th Annual Expo and the biggest yet, with 1,100 guests and 22 of the world’s best wildlife conservationists. Keynote speaker this year was Dr. Jane Goodall and I’m sorry [...]

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Philadelphia Zoo snow leopard cubs get eye operations

October 27, 2011 Snow leopards in Zoos

Two snow leopard cubs, Kimti and Dian, born in June at Philadelphia Zoo have had major surgery to correct coloboma, a medical condition that causes irritation and infections from hairs touching the eyes. Both cubs had the small areas of the centre of their eyelids missing, a condition that is not uncommon in Zoo births. [...]

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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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Help snow leopards win BBC World Challenge

September 28, 2011 Mongolia

One of my favorite Snow Leopard conservation projects is a finalist in the BBC World Challenge Competition. Please vote for Mongolian Snow Leopard Enterprises  This wonderful organisation helps save snow leopards in Mongolia by providing villagers with income producing alternatives so that they do not poach the endangered cats. Women all across central Asia are [...]

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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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Afghanistan’s highest mountain open to climbers again

August 17, 2011 Afghanistan

After the recent good news of remote cameras photographing more snow leopards in Afhganistan comes another piece of good news. The country’s highest mountain, Mount Noshaq (7492 metres) is again open to the mountaineering community after many years closure due to conflict and insecurity. Mount Noshaq is located in important snow leopard habitat in the [...]

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Himalayan Tahr get great views at Sydney Zoo

August 16, 2011 Snow leopard habitat

The Himalayan tahr is an ungulate or wild goat that shares snow leopard habitat in the rugged wooded hills and mountain slopes of the Himalayas in Nepal, India and Tibet. They are key snow leopard prey in this region and in summer graze in high pastures, then come down the mountains and form herds in [...]

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Altai communities and snow leopards threatened by pipeline

August 11, 2011 Russia

Last year I travelled through a remarkable part of Siberia I knew nothing about, in search of Russia’s last snow leopards. In the Altai Republic and the Altai mountains I found a spectacularly beautiful region with a fragile landscape and local communities hanging onto unique traditions and livelihoods thousands of years old. Much of this [...]

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Adopt a candid camera and snoop on snow leopards in Mongolia

August 9, 2011 Mongolia

The Snow Leopard Trust’s (SLT) long term research project in Mongolia (partnering with Mongolian agencies and Panthera) is raising money by asking people to adopt one of the remote sensor cameras they’ve set up in the South Gobi province to film snow leopards in this beautiful region. This is a lovely way to support ground-breaking [...]

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