Archive for January, 2012
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 [...]
WCS Releases Rare Photograph of Mother and Cub
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 [...]