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WWF Pakistan Nature Carnival Declares Winner
LAHORE: The World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan (WWF) on Monday announced winners of the nature carnival that was held on Sunday. Students of Roots School System (RSS), Model Town were declared winners of the WWF Nature Carnival 2012 for the second year in a row. Rootsians displayed a ground-breaking and inventive project on the theme [...]
Congratulations to Rod Jackson for his nomination for the Indianapolis Prize
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/02/12/MNU11MQII3.DTL&type=science&ao=2 Rodney Jackson on a mission to save the snow leopard Meredith May, Chronicle Staff Writer, SFgate.com Sunday, February 12, 2012 Biologist Rodney Jackson can pinpoint the moment he transformed from a student of nature to a full-blown conservationist. While walking along a river in Nepal in 1977, he came upon the skinned carcass of [...]
WWF-Pak, IMC hold travelling nature carnival
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 [...]
Scientists snap rare photos of snow leopards in Tajikistan
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 [...]
New SLN Steering Committee Members
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 [...]
Five Snow Leopard Conservation Grant Recipients Announced
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 [...]
Snow Leopard Conservation Project Voted Number One in Competition Hosted by BBC World News and Newsweek
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 [...]
First camera-trap image of Nepal’s Snow Leopard released
Kathmandu, Nepal – The first picture of a snow leopard taken by a camera trap on 24 October 2011 in Khambachen valley of Kangchenjunga was released today by WWF-Nepal. Ten camera traps (Moultrie D- 40) were installed in the valleys of Nagphinda, Khambachen, Lohanak and Jimbubari in Kangchenjunga Conservation Area in October 2011 under a [...]
Snow Leopards caught on camera on Altai Republic’s Chikhacheva Ridge
November 29, 2011 – Congratulations to Sergei Spitsyn and Misha Paltsyn! Pictures available here: http://altaiproject.org/?p=2061 Participants in an expedition sponsored jointly by Arkhar and Altaisky State Biosphere Reserve have obtained the first images of snow leopard and manul (Pallas) cat on the Russian side of Altai Republic’s Chikhacheva Ridge using camera traps. The first stage [...]
Snow leopard research center to be set up at Kibber – Spiti
Shimla: Raising conservation concerns for preserving the habitat of snow leopards, – the rare big cats that roam across some of the coldest zones on earth, wildlife wardens in collaboration with Mysore based National Conservation Foundation (NCF) have drawn up plans to set up a research centre in Spiti valley. Chief wildlife warden AK Gulati [...]