SLN News: articles, announcements, and information
http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/27/snow-leopard-reemerges-in-chitral-forests.html CHITRAL, Jan 26: Snow leopard was spotted in the forests near Bakamak and Shali villages in Chitral district on Wednesday and Thursday after long disappearance. An official of the local wildlife department told Dawn on Thursday that the big cat appeared near Bakamak and Shali areas but heavy snowfall forced it into moving to [...]
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-01-24/lucknow/30658427_1_ips-cells-monash-institute-cell-types LUCKNOW: The cultivation of embryonic stem-like cells made up from the tissue of an adult leopard, by Rajneesh Verma, has come as a ray of hope for scientists working to save the snow leopard. Rajneesh, a native of Lucknow is presently working at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Rajneesh has pursued his studies from [...]
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2012\01\23\story_23-1-2012_pg7_10 KARACHI: As many as 2,500 people from various spheres of life, including schools, colleges and universities students, participated in annual Travelling Nature Carnival held here at PAF Museum Sunday, organised by World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)-Pakistan in collaboration with Indus Motor Company (IMC). The carnival was aimed at motivating and involving youth and [...]
http://www.expatica.com/nl/news/dutch-news/dutch-police-find-40-boxes-of-rare-animal-bones_202642.html Dutch police find 40 boxes of rare animal bones Two Dutch men were arrested after police discovered 40 boxes filled with animal bones, including those of a rare snow leopard, in the northeastern city of Emmen, a police spokesman said Friday. “Police received a tip-off about the men and when they searched two homes [...]
Congratulations to all the SLN members involved in this project! Telegraph.co.uk – A British-lead team of scientists has snapped rare intimate photographs of the elusive snow leopard on a remote mountain on the Tajik-Afghan border. The photographs of the five snow leopards over a two month period in former Soviet Tajikistan suggest that the scientists [...]
Voting for the 2012-2014 Snow Leopard Network Steering Committee was recently concluded. Thank you to all members who voted, and congratulations to the newly elected Steering Committee members, who are as follows: Chair: David Mallon, Ph.D., Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Members: Yash Veer Bhatnagar, Ph.D., Nature Conservation Foundation and Snow Leopard Trust (India Program) Mukesh [...]
WCS – Photographing snow leopards with remote cameras in Afghanistan is hard, which is why a team of WCS conservationists was delighted to take this recent image from a craggy peak in Afghanistan’s Sarkund Valley. This is the first image of a mother and cub taken since WCS began work in the region. WCS has [...]
Already many National Parks across India have been honoured to have their names in the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites. Now joining them soon will be the Great Himalayan National Park located in Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh. The nomination for the prestigious status for the National Park had been sent by the Himachal [...]
The Snow Leopard Conservation Grants Program (SLCGP) will be funding five projects in 2012. This year, thanks largely to the generosity of our important partner the Whitley Fund for Nature (www.whitleyaward.org), we are able to provide an unprecedented level of support for snow leopards since the inception of SLCGP. This is a 60 % improvement [...]
Wildlife Charity Wins World Challenge Competition Snow Leopard Conservation Project Voted Number One in Competition Hosted by BBC World News and Newsweek November 30th, 2011—Seattle, WA A program developed by the Snow Leopard Trust, a Seattle-based conservation organization, has won first place in the World Challenge. The program, called ‘Snow Leopard Enterprises,’ was created to [...]