Dr. Charudutt (Charu) Mishra, the Snow Leopard Trust’s Science and Conservation Director and a trustee of India’s Nature Conservation Foundation, is among an elite list of nominees for the 2014 Indianapolis Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious conservation awards. The nomination recognizes Charu Mishra’s outstanding contributions to endangered species conservation in the Himalayas.
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Kyrgyzstan: A Shared Taste for Argali
Snow leopards and wolves share some of their food resources. In Kyrgyzstan’s Sarychat-Ertash Nature Reserve, for now, there seems to be enough prey for both of these carnivores, but outside of the reserve, their common taste in wild ungulates could lead to competition. Kyrgyzstan’s Tian Shan mountains are a barren, dry and cold habitat. The …
Empowering Women, Protecting Cats: Impressions from the Snow Leopard Enterprises Design Summit in Mongolia
This July, members of our team traveled to Western Mongolia to work with participating herder communities on new designs and product ideas for Snow Leopard Enterprises (SLE), our successful conservation program that creates economic opportunities for herder families in snow leopard habitat in return for a commitment to protect the cats they live with. The “Design Summit” …
Victims of Fashion?
New study reveals dangers to biological diversity from proliferation of global cashmere garment industry. Snow leopard, wild yak, Tibetan antelope, gazelles, and other species impacted.
Snow Leopard Trust Applauds Etsy's Decision to Ban Endangered Animal Products
Press Release — Seattle, WA, July 22, 2013 Following a petition launched by the Snow Leopard Trust and signed by more than 33,000 people, the trend-setting online marketplace Etsy.com steps up for wildlife and explicitly bans listings containing parts of endangered animals from their site. The Snow Leopard Trust is happy that the trend-setting marketplace …
Snow Leopard Trust Researchers Encounter Wild Snow Leopard Cub
Press Release – Seattle, WA, July 11, 2013 An international research team including members of the Snow Leopard Trust encounters a 2-week-old wild snow leopard cub in its den; a rare glimpse of the first days in the life of these endangered, elusive cats. Finding a wild snow leopard cub in its den is rare …
Covering New Ground: A Report From the Field
After a week of planning and preparing and 3 exhilarating weeks of field work in Mongolia, Senior Regional Ecologist Koustubh Sharma is back home in Delhi, working on analyzing the wealth of data collected over the last months. He shares some of his experiences with us.
Etsy HQ makes tentative first steps to review sale of endangered animal products
Earlier this month, we discovered hundreds of illegal listings for products made with parts of endangered animals on the trend-setting online marketplace Etsy.com. After several attempts to be heard by Etsy HQ, we launched a petition asking Etsy headquarters to adopt a policy that would prohibit such items from the site – and you’ve stepped …
Cubs Near You?!
It’s cub season – in snow leopard habitat in Central Asia and in zoos around the world. While our researchers are in the field looking for wild cubs, we’re also in touch with our zoo partners around the world, so we can update you on births near you – and please don’t hesitate to tell …
Q&A: Why Etsy HQ needs to ban endangered animal products
What do we want Etsy headquarters to do? As revealed by a few simple searches on the Etsy marketplace for terms such as “pre-ban”, “real leopard”, “real ivory” or “rhino horn”, there are currently several hundred products made with parts of endangered animals listed on the site – the vast majority of them labeled as “vintage”, “pre-ban” …