by aritha | Mar 19, 2015 | pastevents
On March 19-20, 2015 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Ministers and senior officials of 12 snow leopard range countries will be coming together for the first Steering Committee meeting of the Global Snow Leopard and Ecosystems Protection Program (GSLEP). The meeting will be a...
by aritha | Mar 17, 2015 | Snow-leopard-blog
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 Benazir Bhutto International Airport on Monday before...
by aritha | Mar 15, 2015 | Snow-leopard-blog
The goal of the Global Snow Leopard & Ecosystem Protection Plan (GSLEP) is for the 12 range countries, with support from interested organizations, to work together to identify and secure 20 snow leopard landscapes across the snow leopard’s range by 2020, or, in...
by aritha | Mar 3, 2015 | Snow-leopard-blog
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 products, which are widely...
by aritha | Feb 20, 2015 | Snow-leopard-blog
We are now in the coldest part of winter in the Himalayan and Central Asian mountains snow leopards call home. Let’s remind ourselves how these cats have adapted to the extreme cold (minus 25 degrees Centigrade or 13 degrees Fahrenheit) and to the extreme high...
