Study lists 73 districts as tiger poaching hotspots
NAGPUR: Poaching, prey depletion and habitat destruction have decimated the world's wild tiger population to fewer than 3,200. Poaching continues to be the key threat to tigers in India - home to more
View Article51 snow leopards in Nepal wild: Study
RASUWA, Sept 29: A recent study has revealed that there are 51snow leopards in two national parks and three other conservation areas in Nepal. The study was conducted by a team deployed from the Center
View ArticleHP to launch conservation programme for Himalayan brown bear
SHIMLA: After conserving snow leopard and western tragopan, Himachal Pradesh is going to launch a conservation programme for the endangered Himalayan brown bear by setting up the country's first...
View ArticleIndia falling behind in protection of snow leopards and their habitat
Indian minister is not attending the first international meeting for the conservation of snow leopards in Kyrgyzstan despite the need for greater conservation efforts to protect its leopard populations
View ArticleAfrica: UK Leads Global Crackdown On Illegal Wildlife Trade
Britain will provide new funding to a global crackdown on the trade in rhino horn, elephant ivory and other illegal wildlife products. Britain will provide new funding to a global crackdown on the trade
View ArticleIn a first, U’khand to begin count of elusive snow leopards from June 16
DEHRADUN: In a first-time initiative, the Uttarakhand forest department is embarking on an ambitious project to estimate the population of the elusive snow leopard that inhabits the higher reaches of the
View ArticleIndia too in global effort to save snow leopard habitat
DEHRADUN: Thanks to camera trap imagery, Uttarakhand has been able to capture images of snow leopards in the higher reaches of Nanda Devi Biosphere, Gangotri National Park and, recently, in Bagheshwar
View ArticleFragile connections: snow leopards, people, water and the global climate
Urgent international action must be taken in the face of climate change to save the snow leopard and conserve its fragile mountain habitats that provide water to hundreds of millions of people across...
View ArticleClimate alert for swamp tiger
More alert has been sounded for the Sunderbans tiger on the climate front. Of the 12 species that the National Geographic has highlighted in its current volume on climate change, the Sunderbans tiger
View ArticleAs Tiger Numbers Dwindle, Will Smugglers Target a Different Cat?
Among wild cats, clouded leopards are increasingly coveted—and bred in captivity—for commercial purposes, according to a new study from University of Oxford’s Wildlife Conservation Research Unit. They’re
View ArticleTwo held for snow leopard poaching
Darchula police on Sunday made public two people who were arrested earlier on the charge of wildlife poaching. The accused are Janak Bahadur Shahi, 39, of Jubidha-8, Kalikot and Kalamram Parki, 30,
View ArticleHimachal Pradesh to begin breeding snow leopards in captivity
KUFRI (HP): The breeding of the highly-endangered snow leopard in the Himalayan Nature Park in the picturesque Himachal Pradesh resort of Kufri is set to begin with zoo authorities in Darjeeling agreeing
View ArticleAn ounce of prevention: snow leopard crime revisited
Hundreds of snow leopards are being killed every year across the mountains of central Asia, threatening the already endangered big cat, according to a new report. There are as few as 4,000 of the solitary
View Articleउत्तराखंड में हिम तेंदुओं की संख्या का जल्द चलेगा पता
भारतीय वन्यजीव संस्थान अप्रैल तक हिम तेंदुए मल के नमूनों की जांच कर अपनी रिपोर्ट सौंप देगा। इससे पता चल जाएगा कि उत्तराखंड के उच्च हिमालयी क्षेत्र में कितने हिम तेंदुए हैं। देहरादून, [केदार दत्त]:...
View ArticleTracking the Mountain Ghost
This coffee table book on Snow Leopards takes stock of what Nepal has accomplished in snow leopard conservation, while appraising new challenges, that will help guide us towards our common goal of...
View ArticleScientists split over snow leopard status
Scientists are deeply divided on whether snow leopards are still endangered species, a BBC investigation has found. Some big cat exerts say their population has stabilised and increased in a number
View ArticleSnow leopard now no longer endangered
The snow leopard is no longer an endangered species, but its population in the wild is still at risk because of poaching and habitat loss, conservationists said this week. The International Union for
View ArticleSnow leopard and ecosystem management plan (2017-2026): Eastern Himalaya...
This management plan has been prepared by the Government of Nepal in response to the Bishkek declaration (2013) to secure 20 snow leopard landscapes by 2020. The management plan process involved extensive
View ArticleThe big cats' decline is understated making numbers of snow leopards in...
If conservationists across the Himalayas can prove that counting these predators will help villagers more than killing them can, efforts to protect the snow leopard will succeed Snow leopards have the
View ArticleInfrastructure assessment in snow leopard habitat of Nepal
The evaluation shows that among the six-infrastructure themes that this assessment focused on, roads seem to have the highest amount of impact on the snow leopard habitat. Experts’ ranking ranged from
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