Dr Rodney Jackson, one of the world's foremost snow leopard researchers has been nominated a third time for the pretigious Indianapolis Prize for wildlife conservation. Go Rodney!
Dr Rodney Jackson, the first person to radio collar a wild snow leopard and director of the Snow Leopard Conservancy has been announced as a three-time finalist for the Indianapolis Prize, the annual $100,000 award for unique contribution to wildlife conservation.
Rodney has done and continues to do a huge job in protecting snow leopards in Central Asia. His focus is on research and community education especially promoting cross-boundary cooperation between snow leopard range countries. Snow leopards don’t understand country boundaries so its important for agencies to work together. “We see again and again (that) a conservation approach of a single country here and there will not work long term. There needs to be cross-boundary cooperation, ” Rodney said.
Good luck Rodney, we hope third time lucky for you and the SLC! You desereve it!
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Rodney you are realy doing a geat Great job…. i solute you sir.
This is to request if you can kindly spare some time for the conversation of snow leopards of Ladakh… particularly in the KARGIL District of Ladakh, Jammu & kashmir. we will feel realy obliged.
Regards
Gulzar Kingi
Kargil Ladakh.
Sir, congrats for such a great acheivement.Your contribution towards saving these Beautiful animal is really incredible.Since you have done so much work in insitu facilities,i hope this will help to keep the captive stock in a good healthy position.
Warm regards,
Shradhanjali Rai,
Research Scholar,
Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park,Darjeeling,India.