by aritha | Mar 20, 2015 | Snow-leopard-blog
The Steering Committee from snow leopard range countries are discussing the joint efforts for implementation of the Global Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Protection Program. Only joint efforts can save endangered animals such as the snow leopard from extinction in the...
by aritha | Mar 19, 2015 | Snow-leopard-blog
Federal Minister for Climate Change and Senator, Mushahid Ullah Khan said here on Thursday that Pakistan is committed to joining global efforts and playing its part for protection and conservation of the endangered snow leopard, whose population has declined rapidly...
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...
