by aritha | Aug 6, 2015 | Snow-leopard-blog
How these big cats thrive in low-oxygen mountain habitats is still a mystery, study says. By Carrie Arnold, National Geographic PUBLISHED August 05, 2015 The snow leopard might rule the high reaches of the Himalaya, but they share some unexpected similarities with the...
by aritha | Aug 4, 2015 | Snow-leopard-blog
Dear colleagues, We are delighted to share with you the first volume of Ilbirs., newsletter of the Global Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Protection Program. Ilbirs. in English Ilbirs. in Russian The newsletter will be published every quarter as an effort to update our...
by aritha | Aug 2, 2015 | Snow-leopard-blog
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 them. At the age I am now, 15 years old, I begin to find myself angry...
by aritha | Aug 2, 2015 | Snow-leopard-blog
An indigenous community living in the snow leopard habitat We, the indigenous cultural practitioners of the snow leopard range countries, welcome global efforts for the conservation of snow leopards and express our readiness to collaborate in the development and...
by aritha | Aug 1, 2015 | Snow-leopard-blog
Illegal hunting of snow leopards is a serious threat to the species in Central Asia 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...
by aritha | Aug 1, 2015 | Snow-leopard-blog
Back in 2013, a cub, only a few months old from Khunjerab Valley, was found by members of the community. Under the assumption she was abandoned, they removed the cub from the wild in order to give her a chance at survival. Soon after, the Gilgit-Baltistan government...
