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Interview with National Focal Point from Mongolia

Interview with National Focal Point from Mongolia

National Focal Point for GSLEP from Mongolia, Uranchimeg, Director of Natural Resources Policy and Coordination Department of the Ministry of Environment and Tourism. The honorable Minister made a video speech during the recent Steering Committee Meeting in Samarkand....

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GSLEP honoured students on the occasion of Biodiversity Day

GSLEP honoured students on the occasion of Biodiversity Day

To mark the International Day for Biological Diversity, the Kyrgyz State University named after I. Arabaev in Bishkek hosted a roundtable discussion. The event focused on two magnificent big cat species: the snow leopard and the Arabian leopard. The scientific...

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Melis Turgunbaev: 10 years of GSLEP cooperation

Melis Turgunbaev: 10 years of GSLEP cooperation

The Minister of Natural Resources, Environment, and Technical Supervision of the Kyrgyz Republic, His Excellency Melis Turgunbaev, addressed the participants and partners of the Global Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Protection Program (GSLEP) on the occasion of its 10th...

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The snow leopard is the national symbol of Kyrgyzstan

The snow leopard is the national symbol of Kyrgyzstan

We have exciting news for all snow leopard enthusiasts and conservationists. The President of the Kyrgyz Republic, Honorable Mr. Sadyr Zhaparov, has officially declared the snow leopard as the national symbol of the Kyrgyz Republic. This monumental decision...

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Country updates 2021

Country updates 2021

    The GSLEP Resolution 2020, endorsed by the snow leopard range countries identified resource mobilization, inclusive economic development, animal-human healthcare, and diseasesurveillance as priority areas. The range countries also extended their support...

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How Bees and Trees Protect Snow Leopards

How Bees and Trees Protect Snow Leopards

How Bees and Trees Protect Snow Leopards One hundred fifty honey bee hives were successfully delivered to their new homes in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan. Relocating the bees was a challenge, as Benazir, Snow Leopard Trust's Project Assistant, shares, “The delivery...

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Key News from WWF Russia 2021

1. Breaking Barriers  Read how WWF-Russia removed barbed wire at Russia-Mongolian border for free migration of snow leopard and wild ungulate. Political borders are for people. But for an animal like the snow leopard, with a home range that can be as large as 2,000...

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Call for Submissions #EncounterUncia

Twitter Conference: Unusual Encounters with Snow Leopards 6,7,8 December 2021 Global Snow Leopard Ecosystem Program (GSLEP) and Snow Leopard Network (SLN) in collaboration with partners will be hosting a Twitter conference on Unusual Snow Leopard Encounters.  ...

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PAWS: Status of snow leopard and prey in Himachal Pradesh

The Wildlife Wing of the Himachal Pradesh Forest Department partnered with the Nature Conservation Foundation (NCF) to conduct a three-year snow leopard and prey population survey in Himachal Pradesh, India. This survey provides the first-ever, scientifically robust...

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World Wildlife Day: Anti-Poaching Heroes Honored

World Wildlife Day: Anti-Poaching Heroes Honored

Press Release, March 3rd, 2017. Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Seven wildlife crime law enforcement officials in Kyrgyzstan have received a Citizen Ranger Wildlife Award for their courage in the fight against illegal hunting in the country’s…

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Press Release: GSLEP Steering Committee Meeting in Kathmandu

Press Release: GSLEP Steering Committee Meeting in Kathmandu

Press Release: GSLEP Steering Committee Meeting in Kathmandu
Global effort to save the endangered snow leopard: Ministers from snow leopard range countries discuss progress and next steps. 2nd Steering Committee Meeting of the Global Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Protection Program (GSLEP) to be…

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A Toolkit for Management Planning

A Toolkit for Management Planning

Practical advice for Management Planning of conservation landscapes in snow leopard habitat To help range countries design conservation action for the 23 landscapes they have identified to be secured under the GLSEP program, the…

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семинар по сбору и анализу информации для подготовки Плана управления

семинар по сбору и анализу информации для подготовки Плана управления

17 июня 2016 года в г.Каракол прошел стартовый семинар по сбору и анализу информации для подготовки Плана управления для территории Центрального Тань-Шаня. Данный семинар проходил в рамках достижения общей цели Глобальной программы по сохранению…

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Kyrgyzstan: Steps Taken Toward Management Plan

Kyrgyzstan: Steps Taken Toward Management Plan

A working seminar was held on June 17th in Karakol (Kyrgyzstan) on the collection and analysis of data that will inform the Management plan for the Central Tien Shan within the framework of the common goal…

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Government of Nepal Hosts GSLEP Workshop on Landscape Management Planning to Conserve the Snow Leopard

Government of Nepal Hosts GSLEP Workshop on Landscape Management Planning to Conserve the Snow Leopard

A wonderful serenity has taken possession of my entire soul, like these sweet mornings of spring which I enjoy with my whole heart. I am alone, and feel the charm of existence in this spot, which was created for the bliss of souls like mine. I am so happy, my dear friend, so absorbed in the exquisite sense of mere tranquil existence, that I neglect my talents. I should be incapable of drawing a single stroke at the present moment; and yet I feel that I never was a greater artist than now. When, while the lovely valley teems with vapour around me, and the meridian sun strikes the upper surface of the impenetrable foliage of my trees, and but a few stray gleams steal into the inner sanctuary, I throw myself down among the tall grass by the trickling stream; and, as I lie close to the earth, a thousand unknown plants are noticed by me: when I hear the buzz of the little world among the stalks, and grow familiar with the countless indescribable forms of the insects and flies, then I feel the presence of the Almighty, who formed us in his own image, and the breath of that universal love which bears and sustains us, as it floats around us in an eternity of blist.

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Catalyst Grant for Management Planning

Catalyst Grant for Management Planning

Catalyst grants available to range countries for developing management plans of snow leopard landscapes. A catalyst grants program to support snow leopard range countries in developing management plans for GSLEP landscapes was proposed at the…

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Snow Leopard and Climate Change

Snow Leopard and Climate Change

by Rina Saeed Khan, The Dawn, December 8th, 2015 The Global Snow Leopard Ecosystem Protection Programme held a meeting in Paris on Monday that was chaired by the federal Minister for Climate Change, Zahid Hamid….

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Snow Leopards rebounding in Afghanistan

Snow Leopards rebounding in Afghanistan

KABUL: Latest pictures of the endangered Snow Leopard have emerged from the remote Wakhan Corridor in northeastern Badakhshan province of Afghanistan with estimates showing that a surprisingly robust population of possibly a hundred…

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A youngster’s appeal

A youngster’s appeal

Youth, I find, are generally an angry people. In adolescence, people realize that the world is an imperfect place, and they begin to concern themselves with things that seem bigger and older than…

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Poaching and illegal wildlife trade

Poaching and illegal wildlife trade

Poaching and Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT) has recently led to local and global extinctions of several species such as the tiger in several parts of its range, Sumatran rhino and Pyrenean ibex. Often…

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Snow leopard conservation updates: Kyrgyzstan

Snow leopard conservation updates: Kyrgyzstan

Several research and conservation initiatives are being implemented in Kyrgyzstan toward achieving the goals of GSLEP program. This kind of collaboration between government agencies and non-government agencies can be replicated for future conservation…

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Snow leopard conservation updates: Afghanistan

Snow leopard conservation updates: Afghanistan

Afghanistan has identified the Wakhan snow leopard landscape to be secured under the GSLEP program. Since 2009, more than 5,000 snow leopard pictures have been taken there on camera traps. These pictures are…

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World Environment Day

World Environment Day

Dear colleagues, friends and supporters! The World Environment Day is celebrated on 5th June around the world every year to attract the attention of humanity to the plight of our beautiful planet and all..

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Cats Caught on Cam: The Chase

Cats Caught on Cam: The Chase

Thanks to the generous support of many of you, we’ve been able to purchase urgently needed research cameras and have begun monitoring the snow leopards of Kyrgyzstan’s Sarychat area systematically last year. While…

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2 poachers held with leopard skin

2 poachers held with leopard skin

JAMMU, Apr 9: Police claimed to have arrested two poachers and seized 3 snow leopard skins from them in Kishtwar, today. Official reports said, on specific information District Police Kishtwar achieved a major…

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20th snow leopard collared in Mongolia study

20th snow leopard collared in Mongolia study

The Snow Leopard Trust has great news this week with the announcement that they have captured and collared their 20th wild snow leopard in Mongolia’s Tost Mountains, the area of their 10 year long…

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Petition

Petition

The Secretariat of the Global Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Protection (GSLEP) Program strongly condemns the acts and circumstances surrounding the repulsive photograph of a person posing with a dead snow leopard that has started…

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Climate change a big threat to snow leopard

Climate change a big threat to snow leopard

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Climate Change Mushahidullah Khan has said that melting glaciers in Pakistan’s north pose a severe threat to snow leopards. The minister was talking to the media here at the Shaheed…

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Today is International Wildlife Day

Today is International Wildlife Day

Today we celebrate International Wildlife Day with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message “Getting serious about wildlife crime means enrolling the support of all sections of society involved in the production and consumption of wildlife…

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