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					<title>Financing conservation of Central Asia&#8217;s endangered mammals on World Wildlife Day and every day (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/03/financing-conservation-of-central-asias-endangered-mammals-on-world-wildlife-day-and-every-day-commentarycommentary/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Mar 2025 12:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Anne NeumannChristiane RöttgerJohannes Stahl]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
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							<![CDATA[Afghanistan, Asia, Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Carbon Market, climate finance, Conservation, Conservation Finance, Ecotourism, Finance, Payments For Ecosystem Services, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Central Asia hosts some of the world’s largest and still relatively interconnected yet fragile grassland and mountain ecosystems. These landscapes provide essential habitats for migratory and threatened species, including the snow leopard, saiga antelope, argali sheep, Mongolian gazelle and wild ass. While these species are essential for maintaining ecological balance, they face growing threats from [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Central Asia hosts some of the world’s largest and still relatively interconnected yet fragile grassland and mountain ecosystems. These landscapes provide essential habitats for migratory and threatened species, including the snow leopard, saiga antelope, argali sheep, Mongolian gazelle and wild ass. While these species are essential for maintaining ecological balance, they face growing threats from habitat fragmentation, climate change, and poaching. Despite their ecological significance, conservation efforts in the region remain severely underfunded, hindered by high financial risks and a lack of investment-ready opportunities. The 2025 edition of U.N. World Wildlife Day (March 3, 2025, themed Wildlife Conservation Finance: Investing in People and the Planet) rings the alarm bell: financial solutions to support conservation efforts in regions like Central Asia are urgently needed. As part of these efforts, the Central Asian Mammals Initiative (CAMI), under the Convention on Migratory Species, provides a strategic framework to safeguard migratory wildlife across the region’s arid steppes and mountains. However, without effective financing mechanisms and stronger international collaboration, conservation efforts will struggle to keep pace with mounting threats. New financing solutions needed Conservation finance in Central Asia faces inadequate funding levels, high perceived risks, and limited data on biodiversity projects. The complexity of conservation initiatives, coupled with the long-term nature of economic returns, often deters potential investors. While new financing mechanisms have succeeded elsewhere in the world, their potential in Central Asia remains largely untapped. Adapting and implementing these approaches could unlock sustaining investment flows, providing the necessary resources to protect these ecosystems. Saiga&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/03/financing-conservation-of-central-asias-endangered-mammals-on-world-wildlife-day-and-every-day-commentarycommentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-295225</doi>				</item>
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					<title>The EU banned Russian wood pellet imports; South Korea took them all</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/01/the-eu-banned-russian-wood-pellet-imports-south-korea-took-them-all/</link>
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					<pubDate>24 Jan 2023 22:27:44 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Justin Catanoso]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Covering the Commons]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[European Union, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, South Korea, Turkey, and United States]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Adaptation To Climate Change, Bioenergy, Business, carbon, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Sequestration, Climate, Climate Change, Climate Science, Conservation, Controversial, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Emission Reduction, Energy, Environment, Environmental Policy, Forest Carbon, Forest Loss, Forests, Global Environmental Crisis, Global Warming, Globalization, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Impact Of Climate Change, Logging, Mitigation, Nature-based climate solutions, Politics, Renewable Energy, Solutions, Timber, and Trees]]>
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											<description>
							<![CDATA[Last July, as the Ukraine war raged, the EU barred all Russian woody biomass imports; even as South Korea took in Russia’s supply. Illicit woody biomass may also still be flowing to the EU from Turkey, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.]]>
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							<![CDATA[Despite European countries becoming ever more reliant on woody biomass for energy generation, the European Union last July chose to ban the import of wood pellets from Russia during a fifth round of economic sanctions tied to the unprovoked war with Ukraine. As a result, South Korea — which is in the process of accelerating its energy transition from coal burning to wood pellets — found itself in a geopolitical quandary that also offered a domestic energy-making opportunity.  Not wanting to alienate either Russia or Western allies aligned with Ukraine, South Korea has reportedly opted to ignore the ongoing war and take advantage of the entire surplus of Russian wood pellets on the open market. Since late July 2022, South Korea has been the exclusive destination for Russian produced pellets, tripling its imports in November alone to 65,000 tons, according to a report in late December by LesProm, a European timber holding and wood-products conglomerate. Through November of last year, South Korea paid $69 million to Russia for 377,000 tons of wood pellets — double what it imported from Russia in 2021. Forest advocates in Asia, Europe and the United States are livid at South Korea’s actions, noting that Russian imports now make up 15% of South Korea’s total wood pellet supply. They also say that South Korea is paying little attention to third-party certification programs that would help ensure that wood pellet supplies are not contributing to net deforestation and biodiversity loss in Russia. “South Korea, taking advantage of market&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/01/the-eu-banned-russian-wood-pellet-imports-south-korea-took-them-all/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-264936</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Range countries to lead new estimate of global snow leopard population as downgraded threat status remains controversial</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/03/range-countries-to-lead-new-estimate-of-global-snow-leopard-population-as-downgraded-threat-status-remains-controversial/</link>
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					<pubDate>26 Mar 2018 17:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mike Gaworecki]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Mike Gaworecki]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Afghanistan, Asia, Bhutan, Central Asia, China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, South Asia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Big Cats, Cats, Conservation, Endangered Species, Environment, Human-wildlife Conflict, Hunting, Mammals, Poaching, Population, Wildlife, and Wildlife Trade]]>
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							<![CDATA[No one really knows for sure how many snow leopards there are left in the world, but an initiative spearheaded by snow leopard range countries and scientists announced last week aims to change that. The snow leopard (Panthera uncia) is found in 12 countries in Central and South Asia. Its elusive nature and inaccessible, mountainous [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[No one really knows for sure how many snow leopards there are left in the world, but an initiative spearheaded by snow leopard range countries and scientists announced last week aims to change that. The snow leopard (Panthera uncia) is found in 12 countries in Central and South Asia. Its elusive nature and inaccessible, mountainous habitat were once believed to be keeping the snow leopard population relatively stable, but in recent years habitat loss and degradation, declining prey due to illegal hunting, human-wildlife conflict, and poaching for the illegal wildlife trade have all taken their toll, and the species is widely believed to be in decline. The species had been listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List since 1986 until late last year, when its threat status was downgraded to Vulnerable — ostensibly welcome news that ultimately proved quite controversial. The IUCN reported that &#8220;new available data&#8221; had led to the threat status downgrade. But even the IUCN notes in its assessment of the snow leopard population that “There are no robust estimates of Snow Leopard global population size and the various figures available are best regarded as guesses.&#8221; Those best guesses place the global snow leopard population anywhere between about 4,000 to 7,500 individuals, according to the IUCN Red List. The newly announced Population Assessment of the World’s Snow Leopards initiative, called PAWS for short, will be overseen by the Steering Committee of the Global Snow Leopard &amp; Ecosystem Protection Program (GSLEP), which is comprised of the Environment&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/03/range-countries-to-lead-new-estimate-of-global-snow-leopard-population-as-downgraded-threat-status-remains-controversial/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-205218</doi>				</item>
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					<title>A saiga time bomb? Bad news for Central Asia’s beleaguered antelope</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/01/a-time-bomb-for-the-saiga-bad-news-central-asias-beleaguered-antelope/</link>
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					<pubDate>17 Jan 2018 16:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Atlantic Forest, Central Asia, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Antelope, Bacteria, Climate, Climate Change, Climate Science, Diseases, Environment, Global Warming, Grasslands, Hunting, Mammals, Over-hunting, Poaching, Research, Saiga, Temperatures, Ungulates, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[In May 2015, more than 200,000 saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica) suddenly died. Entire herds perished, their bodies littering the steppe grasslands of central Kazakhstan as if dropped from the sky. Biologists were left stunned, baffled and very concerned. Already critically endangered, the mass die-off reduced the species by two-thirds globally. Only around 31,000 remained in [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In May 2015, more than 200,000 saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica) suddenly died. Entire herds perished, their bodies littering the steppe grasslands of central Kazakhstan as if dropped from the sky. Biologists were left stunned, baffled and very concerned. Already critically endangered, the mass die-off reduced the species by two-thirds globally. Only around 31,000 remained in Kazakhstan and 100,000 worldwide. Research indicated the saigas were likely killed by hemorrhagic septicemia caused by a type of bacteria called Pasteurella multocida. But P. multocida generally exists harmlessly in healthy saigas and other animals, so the question remained: Why did so many saigas become infected so suddenly and severely by a normally benign type of bacteria? Dead saigas litter the ground during at Torgai Betpak Dala, Kazakhstan, in May 2015. Photo by Photograph courtesy of the Joint saiga health monitoring team in Kazakhstan (Association for the Conservation of Biodiversity, Kazakhstan, Biosafety Institute, Gvardeskiy RK, Royal Veterinary College, London, UK) A newborn saiga calf nestles in the arms of a scientist of the joint health monitoring team. Scientists think the saiga&#8217;s distinctive nose helps filter out dust kicked up during summer migrations and warms up inhaled air in the winter. Photo by Photograph courtesy of the Joint saiga health monitoring team in Kazakhstan (Association for the Conservation of Biodiversity, Kazakhstan, Biosafety Institute, Gvardeskiy RK, Royal Veterinary College, London, UK) In 2016, disaster struck the saiga again. This time in Mongolia and from a known entity: a virus from domestic goats and sheep. Between December 2016&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/01/a-time-bomb-for-the-saiga-bad-news-central-asias-beleaguered-antelope/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-202964</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Snow leopards no longer ‘endangered,’ but still in decline and in need of urgent conservation measures</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/09/snow-leopards-no-longer-endangered-but-still-in-decline-and-in-need-of-urgent-conservation-measures/</link>
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					<pubDate>26 Sep 2017 20:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mike Gaworecki]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Mike Gaworecki]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Afghanistan, Asia, Bhutan, Central Asia, China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, South Asia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Big Cats, Biodiversity, Cats, Conservation, Endangered Species, Environment, Global Environmental Crisis, Mammals, Research, and Wildlife]]>
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											<description>
							<![CDATA[The latest update to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species had bad news about the conservation status of many species, including some that were previously so abundant that their entry onto the list as endangered or even critically endangered came as something of a surprise. There was at least one species for whom the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The latest update to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species had bad news about the conservation status of many species, including some that were previously so abundant that their entry onto the list as endangered or even critically endangered came as something of a surprise. There was at least one species for whom the update bore welcome news, however: the snow leopard, which has been listed as Endangered since 1986 but has now had its threat status downgraded to Vulnerable. “Thanks to new available data, the Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia) has moved from the Endangered to Vulnerable category,” the IUCN reported before warning that &#8220;its population continues to decline and it still faces a high risk of extinction through habitat loss and degradation, declines in prey, competition with livestock, persecution, and poaching for illegal wildlife trade.” Many scientists and conservationists were quick to underscore the point made by the IUCN about the need for continued conservation efforts to reverse the snow leopards’ ongoing decline and ensure the survival of the species, regardless of its status on the Red List. Indeed, some experts argue that moving the species from Endangered to Vulnerable might not have been warranted at all. The IUCN itself noted that there have been a number of successes in the fight to save snow leopards, while acknowledging that there is a lot of work left to be done: “Thanks to significant investments in conservation for this species, including anti-poaching efforts, initiatives to reduce conflict with livestock, and awareness-raising&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2017/09/snow-leopards-no-longer-endangered-but-still-in-decline-and-in-need-of-urgent-conservation-measures/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-199460</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Is the snow leopard actually 3 distinct subspecies?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/05/new-research-suggests-there-are-three-distinct-subspecies-of-snow-leopard/</link>
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					<pubDate>30 May 2017 11:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mike Gaworecki]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Mike Gaworecki]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Afghanistan, Asia, Bhutan, China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Big Cats, Conservation, Environment, Mammals, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[New research published in the Journal of Heredity suggests that there are three subspecies of snow leopard, which researchers say could create new conservation opportunities for the elusive species that inhabits remote, high-altitude habitat across Central and South Asia. All snow leopards were believed to belong to one monotypic species, Panthera uncia, prior to the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[New research published in the Journal of Heredity suggests that there are three subspecies of snow leopard, which researchers say could create new conservation opportunities for the elusive species that inhabits remote, high-altitude habitat across Central and South Asia. All snow leopards were believed to belong to one monotypic species, Panthera uncia, prior to the present study. Though the cats’ range is immense, extending across 1.6 million square kilometers (more than 600,000 square miles) and 12 Asian countries, while also being largely inaccessible to humans, as it includes some of the highest and coldest mountain ranges in the world, hunting and poaching still pose such a serious threat to snow leopards that an estimated population of just 3,500 to 7,000 individuals remains in the wild today. Because of the forbidding terrain they call home, snow leopards are the last of the big cat species — which also includes jaguars, leopards, lions, and tigers — to have been subjected to a subspecies assessment. A research team led by Dr. Jan E. Janecka, a professor of biological science at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA, conducted the first range-wide genetic assessment of snow leopards by analyzing the DNA in scat samples collected on wildlife trails and other areas frequented by the cats. Janecka and team determined that there are three primary “genetic clusters” of snow leopards, each of which qualifies as its own subspecies: a Northern subspecies in the Altai region, a Central subspecies in the core Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau regions, and&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2017/05/new-research-suggests-there-are-three-distinct-subspecies-of-snow-leopard/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-196165</doi>				</item>
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					<title>The Spirit of the Steppes: Saving Central Asia’s saiga</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/02/the-spirit-of-the-steppes-saving-central-asias-saiga/</link>
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					<pubDate>27 Feb 2017 12:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Elizabeth Devitt]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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											<reporting-project>
							<![CDATA[Almost Famous Animals]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Asia, Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia, and Uzbekistan]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Bushmeat, Climate Change, Conservation, Diseases, Drought, Ecology, Ecosystems, Endangered Species, Environment, Extinction, Global Environmental Crisis, Habitat, Hunting, Mammals, Over-hunting, Restoration, Wildlife, Wildlife Trade, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[The beauty of the saiga belies first impressions. It may be hard to look beyond the big nose — a bulbous schnozz that looks like a chunk of an elephant’s trunk. And those spindly legs could make anyone wonder how this sturdy antelope can run so fast and far. Yet, this awkward looking beast is [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Critically Endangered saiga is targeted by traffickers for its horns and hunted for its meat. This steppe antelope also faces threats from disease, habitat degradation, and climate change which is causing seasonal water sources to dry up earlier, forcing the species to shift northward. Photo by Andrey Gilev, Karina Karenina, courtesy of the Saiga Resource Centre The beauty of the saiga belies first impressions. It may be hard to look beyond the big nose — a bulbous schnozz that looks like a chunk of an elephant’s trunk. And those spindly legs could make anyone wonder how this sturdy antelope can run so fast and far. Yet, this awkward looking beast is beautiful in its own right; perfectly designed for its life on the arid, windswept steppes of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Mongolia and the far reaches of southern Russia. In that harsh unforgiving climate, the saiga’s prodigious nose can filter out clouds of fine dry dust rising in summer, or it can warm sub-zero air to keep from freezing the lungs during winter. And those legs, built for speed and endurance, are the best defense in a landscape largely devoid of cover and requiring long annual treks for survival. Unfortunately for the Critically Endangered saiga, the species can’t outrun the rapidly and drastically changing Asian ecology or national economies now threatening its survival. Although the saiga’s prehistoric past is preserved in ancient cave paintings, conservationists worry that the future of this “spirit of the steppe” may be imperiled. Saving the saiga&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2017/02/the-spirit-of-the-steppes-saving-central-asias-saiga/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-193494</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Understanding the ghost of the mountain</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2016/08/understanding-ghost-mountain/</link>
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					<pubDate>10 Aug 2016 20:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Julia John]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
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							<![CDATA[Afghanistan, Bhutan, Central Asia, China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan]]>
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							<![CDATA[Camera Trapping, cameras, data, GPS, Mapping, Monitoring, Population, Remote Sensing, Research, Snow Leopards, Surveying, Technology, Tracking, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[The grayish-white form of the ghost of the mountain slinks through the snowcapped slopes of Central Asia. Its remote, harsh habitat, cryptic coat and elusive nature have impeded investigation and made monitoring the snow leopard (Panthera uncia) arduous, if not impossible. Technological advances, however, are changing that. New population estimates for the big cat, based [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The grayish-white form of the ghost of the mountain slinks through the snowcapped slopes of Central Asia. Its remote, harsh habitat, cryptic coat and elusive nature have impeded investigation and made monitoring the snow leopard (Panthera uncia) arduous, if not impossible. Technological advances, however, are changing that. New population estimates for the big cat, based on a knowledge review process begun in 2008 incorporating increasingly sophisticated technology, are higher than prior ones. A study of Snow Leopard Conservation Units comprising 44 percent of the species’ three million-square-kilometer range suggests there could be 4,678 to 8,745 individuals just within surveyed areas. Till now, scientists believed the global snow leopard population numbered between 3,920 and 7,500.  They stress that they can’t say the population has increased but their ability to estimate it has improved. “New technologies in the hands of respected experts across snow leopard range, yielded, for the most part, the raw data for a more robust population estimate,” said Tom McCarthy, Director of Panthera’s Snow Leopard Program. Snow leopard approaches camera trap, Kyrgyzstan. Photo credit: Panthera-SAEF-NAS-UW. Collars, Cameras, Poop and GIS McCarthy has used telemetry and camera traps, two such technologies, for decades. In the early 1990s, he conducted a large study in Mongolia using standard VHF tags attached to collars. Following the signals of these tags was difficult, requiring researchers to hike on the ground with handheld antennas—a time-consuming and frustrating process—or track from a small aircraft—a costly and risky option. But now GPS satellite tags track the cats as&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2016/08/understanding-ghost-mountain/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-188511</doi>				</item>
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					<title>After mass die-off, saiga antelope numbers go up in Kazakhstan</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2016/06/after-mass-die-off-saiga-antelope-numbers-go-up-in-kazakhstan/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2016/06/after-mass-die-off-saiga-antelope-numbers-go-up-in-kazakhstan/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>17 Jun 2016 07:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Shreya Dasgupta]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Shreya Dasgupta]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Kazakhstan]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Critically Endangered Species, Environment, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Mammals, Poaching, Saiga, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Wildlife, Wildlife Trade, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[Last year, catastrophe hit saiga antelopes in Kazakhstan. About 200,000 of these critically endangered antelopes died in Betpak-Dala in May, deeply worrying conservationists. The deaths, scientists eventually found, were most likely caused by bacterial infection. But there may be hope for these severely threatened migratory mammals. A recent aerial survey of saigas carried out from [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Last year, catastrophe hit saiga antelopes in Kazakhstan. About 200,000 of these critically endangered antelopes died in Betpak-Dala in May, deeply worrying conservationists. The deaths, scientists eventually found, were most likely caused by bacterial infection. But there may be hope for these severely threatened migratory mammals. A recent aerial survey of saigas carried out from April 18 to May 3, 2016 has revealed that the numbers of all three saiga populations in Kazakhstan—Ural, Betpak-Dala and Ustyurt — are going up. The surveys were conducted by the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan in partnership with the Association for the Conservation of Biodiversity of Kazakhstan (ACBK) and JSC &#8220;Kazaviaspas&#8221;, Kazakhstan government announced on Tuesday. &#8220;The news about recovering saiga populations in Kazakhstan is a sign of hope after the catastrophic mass saiga die-off event in 2015,&#8221; Bradnee Chambers, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS), said in a statement. About 200,000 saiga antelopes died last year likely due to a bacterial infection. Photo by Klaus Nigge. Saiga distribution map. Image copyright: Steffen Zuther. The surveys counted a total of 108,300 adult saigas. The Ural population has about 70,200 individuals, up from 51,700 in 2015, while the Ustyurt population has around 1,900 individuals, up from 1,200 in 2015. The Betpak-Dala population also showed promise with about 36,200 individuals, the results revealed. “This is far below the 242,000 animals we counted in spring 2015, before the mass-die off,” Albert Salemgareyev from ACBK, co-leader of the Altyn Dala Conservation Initiative, said. “But we are&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2016/06/after-mass-die-off-saiga-antelope-numbers-go-up-in-kazakhstan/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Conservationists appeal to donors after mystery kills 134,252 saiga</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2015/06/conservationists-appeal-to-donors-after-mystery-kills-134252-saiga/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2015/06/conservationists-appeal-to-donors-after-mystery-kills-134252-saiga/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>10 Jun 2015 15:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Central Asia, and Kazakhstan]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Antelope, Conservation, Conservation Finance, Critically Endangered Species, Diseases, Endangered Species, Environment, Green, Mammals, Saiga, Saving Species From Extinction, Solutions, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Saiga perish by the thousands in the Betpak-Dala region of Kazakhstan. Photo by: Sergei Khomenko/FAO. The good news: conservationists believe that whatever killed off over a hundred thousand saiga in Kazakhstan in less than a month has abetted. The bad news: the final death tally is 134,252 saiga or around half the population of an [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Saiga perish by the thousands in the Betpak-Dala region of Kazakhstan. Photo by: Sergei Khomenko/FAO. The good news: conservationists believe that whatever killed off over a hundred thousand saiga in Kazakhstan in less than a month has abetted. The bad news: the final death tally is 134,252 saiga or around half the population of an animal already considered Critically Endangered. Given the dire situation, conservationists are now asking for emergency donations to the Saiga Conservation Alliance (SCA) to help keep the species from extinction (donors in the U.S. can give here). &#8220;It seems like the crisis is over now,&#8221; E.J. Milner-Gulland, saiga-expert and Chair of the SCA, told Mongabay. The government of Kazakhstan has submitted a report to the World Organization for Animal Health with the total number dead in Kazakhstan&#8217;s Betpak-Dala region. Male and female saiga. Photo by: Eugene Polonsky. Saiga are antelope with long, trunk-like noses. They once roamed the Central Asian plains in the millions, but decades of poaching, habitat loss and development projects in migration routes pushed the population down to 20,000 before conservationists helped the species recover partially over the last 15 years. Prior to the mass mortality event, conservationists estimated a total global population around 260,000. The Betpak-Dala population was among the largest until now. Still, researchers remain uncertain about what caused the mass mortality. &#8220;It seems like there was a mixture of factors, which is likely to include the females being weakened by calving, one or more latent infections which were present in&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2015/06/conservationists-appeal-to-donors-after-mystery-kills-134252-saiga/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-23550</doi>				</item>
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					<title>120,000 dead: half of the world&#8217;s saiga die in less than a month</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2015/05/120000-dead-half-of-the-worlds-saiga-die-in-less-than-a-month/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 May 2015 16:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Central Asia, and Kazakhstan]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Critically Endangered Species, Diseases, Endangered Species, Environment, Green, Hunting, Mammals, Poaching, Saiga, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[A male saiga. Photo by: Seilov/Creative Commons 3.0. No one knows what&#8217;s killing them, but scientists estimate that almost half of the world&#8217;s saiga (Saiga tatarica) have perished since May 10th. To date, researchers on-the-ground unofficially estimate that 120,000 saiga have died in Kazakhstan from what appears to be a wildly virulent disease, although no [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A male saiga. Photo by: Seilov/Creative Commons 3.0. No one knows what&#8217;s killing them, but scientists estimate that almost half of the world&#8217;s saiga (Saiga tatarica) have perished since May 10th. To date, researchers on-the-ground unofficially estimate that 120,000 saiga have died in Kazakhstan from what appears to be a wildly virulent disease, although no cause has been ruled out. Saiga are bizarre-looking, Ice Age antelopes that once roamed Central Asia in the millions, but are now listed as Critically Endangered. &#8220;It&#8217;s very dramatic and traumatic, with 100 per cent mortality,&#8221; UK veterinarian Richard Kock, who has traveled to Kazakhstan to help, told New Scientist. &#8220;I know of no example in history with this level of mortality, killing all the animals and all the calves.&#8221; Kazakhstan&#8217;s Agriculture Ministry said they believe the saiga-killer may be a bacterial infection known as pasteurellosis. However, saiga-expert, E.J. Milner-Gulland with the Saiga Conservation Alliance (SCA), was not fully convinced. &#8220;The fact that you are getting positive reports of Pasteurella doesn&#8217;t mean the bacterium is the underlying reason the animals are dying,&#8221; she told Radio Free Europe. &#8220;[The bacteria] is there naturally and it&#8217;s a kind of opportunistic.&#8221; Research are also looking at several other disease possibilities, including mosquito-borne illness. Only a few decades ago, there were millions of saiga, but the fall of the Soviet Union led to massive poaching. The population dropped to only around 20,000 animals at the beginning of the century, but then with intensive conservation efforts the saiga started to&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2015/05/120000-dead-half-of-the-worlds-saiga-die-in-less-than-a-month/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-23613</doi>				</item>
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					<title>New eco-tour to help save bizarre antelope in &#8216;forgotten&#8217; region</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/05/new-eco-tour-to-help-save-bizarre-antelope-in-forgotten-region/</link>
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					<pubDate>01 May 2011 17:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Asia, China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Birds, Conservation, Critically Endangered Species, Culture, Economics, Ecotourism, Endangered Species, Environment, Grasslands, Green, Habitat Loss, Mammals, Migration, Poaching, Poverty, Poverty Alleviation, Rivers, Saiga, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Traditional Medicine, Wetlands, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Saiga calves. Photo by: Igor Shpilenok. Imagine visiting a region that is largely void of tourists, yet has world-class bird watching, a unique Buddhist population, and one of the world&#8217;s most bizarre-looking and imperilled mammals: the saiga. A new tour to Southern Russia hopes to aid a Critically Endangered species while giving tourists an inside [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Saiga calves. Photo by: Igor Shpilenok. Imagine visiting a region that is largely void of tourists, yet has world-class bird watching, a unique Buddhist population, and one of the world&#8217;s most bizarre-looking and imperilled mammals: the saiga. A new tour to Southern Russia hopes to aid a Critically Endangered species while giving tourists an inside look at a region &#8220;largely forgotten by the rest of the world,&#8221; says Anthony Dancer. Few species have fallen so far and so fast in the past 15 years as Central Asia&#8217;s antelope, the saiga. Its precipitous decline is reminiscent of the bison or the passenger pigeon in 19th Century America, but conservationists hopes it avoids the fate of the latter. Not long ago, a million and a quarter saiga roamed the Central Asian plains; today there are less than 50,000. To make matters worse, 12,000 saigas perished last year in Kazakhstan of disease. &#8220;The causes [of the overall decline] are complex but a combination of the collapse of rural economies following the breakdown of the Soviet Union in 1991, and the reopening of the border with China in the late 1980s, led to extensive and unregulated poaching&#8221; for food and for traditional Chinese medicine, explains Dancer, an ecology student at Imperial College in London, who works with the Saiga Conservation Alliance (SCA). Male saiga. Poaching has largely been driven by the trade in traditional Chinese medicine, which uses male saiga horns. Photo by: Navinder Singh. With SCA, researchers in the saiga&#8217;s remaining range nations—Russia,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2011/05/new-eco-tour-to-help-save-bizarre-antelope-in-forgotten-region/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-32604</doi>				</item>
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					<title>12,000 Critically Endangered antelopes found dead</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2010/06/12000-critically-endangered-antelopes-found-dead/</link>
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					<pubDate>10 Jun 2010 22:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
						</dc:creator>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, China, Kazakhstan, and Russia]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Bushmeat, Conservation, Endangered Species, Environment, Green, Hunting, In-situ Conservation, Mammals, Natural Resources, Poaching, Saving Species From Extinction, Solutions, Wildlife, Wildlife Trade, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Ural population of the Critically Endangered saiga, a curious-looking Asian antelope, has been decimated by an unknown assailant. 12,000 saigas, mostly females and their calves, were found dead in western Kazakhstan reports the Saiga Conservation Alliance. Researchers are currently investigating the cause of the deaths. However, they have linked the mass mortality to a [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Ural population of the Critically Endangered saiga, a curious-looking Asian antelope, has been decimated by an unknown assailant. 12,000 saigas, mostly females and their calves, were found dead in western Kazakhstan reports the Saiga Conservation Alliance. Researchers are currently investigating the cause of the deaths. However, they have linked the mass mortality to a naturally-occurring bacterium called pasteurellosis, which if triggered by infection, poison, stress, or malnutrition can lead to rapid death. Once a million strong, the saiga suffered a precipitous collapse beginning in the 1990s: losing 95 percent of its population in 15 years. Most of the animals were killed by poachers seeking meat and profits from traditional Chinese medicine markets—which uses the saiga&#8217;s horns for medicine—after the Soviet Union collapsed and Central Asia&#8217;s rural economy with it. The saiga is currently found in five populations, but the Kazakhstan is the only population lacking an internationally-supported conservation program. The Saiga Conservation Alliance is working with local authorities and the Association for the Conservation of Biodiversity in Kazakhstan to determine what caused the pasteurellosis. The saiga is a survivor of the Ice Age. It roamed the Central Asian plains alongside mammoths and woolly rhinoceroses. The saiga antelope. Related articles After declining 95% in 15 years, Saiga antelope begins to rebound with help from conservationists (09/20/2009) In a decline on par with that suffered by the American bison in the Nineteenth Century, in the 1990s the saiga antelope of the Central Asian steppe plummeted from over one million individuals to&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2010/06/12000-critically-endangered-antelopes-found-dead/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-34094</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Apple&#8217;s Snow Leopard helps real-life cats</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2009/09/apples-snow-leopard-helps-real-life-cats/</link>
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					<pubDate>07 Sep 2009 19:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Afghanistan, Asia, Bhutan, China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Big Cats, Biodiversity, Carnivores, Cats, Conservation, Environment, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Apple&#8217;s release of its new operating system, dubbed &#8220;Snow Leopard&#8221;, is helping raise awareness of the plight of one of the world&#8217;s most endangered big cats, reports the Snow Leopard Trust, a group working to protect the real-life snow leopard in its mountainous habitat across Central Asia. &#8220;This is a boon for wild snow leopards,&#8221; [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Apple&#8217;s release of its new operating system, dubbed &#8220;Snow Leopard&#8221;, is helping raise awareness of the plight of one of the world&#8217;s most endangered big cats, reports the Snow Leopard Trust, a group working to protect the real-life snow leopard in its mountainous habitat across Central Asia. &#8220;This is a boon for wild snow leopards,&#8221; said Brad Rutherford, Executive Director of the Snow Leopard Trust, &#8220;Apple is helping to show the world the beauty and majesty of this rare creature.&#8221; Rutherford says the software launch has made consumers aware that the snow leopard is indeed a real animal and encouraged some of Apple&#8217;s partners to support snow leopard conservation, including donating a portion of profits. More than three dozen Apple Specialist stores from California to New York are helping the Snow Leopard Trust sell cub adoption kits (specially priced for Mac’s new OS release) to raise money for conservation. Tekserve, an Apple Specialist retailer in New York, has decided to donate all the proceeds from the first 100 Mac OS X operating systems they sell. A full list of participating Apple Specialists is available at www.applespecialist.com/adoptions. &#8220;The launch of the new OS will hopefully put snow leopards front and center and drive people to find out more,&#8221; Rutherford said. &#8220;We have a new donor match going on through October,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;For all the Apple partners, anything they give will be matched—that means they can have double the impact for snow leopard conservation.” The snow leopard (Panthera uncia) is one&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2009/09/apples-snow-leopard-helps-real-life-cats/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>How to Save Snow Leopards</title>
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					<pubDate>28 Oct 2008 14:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Afghanistan, Asia, Bhutan, China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Big Cats, Biodiversity, Carnivores, Cats, Endangered Species, Environment, Forests, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Hunting, In-situ Conservation, Interviews, Mammals, Poaching, Sustainable Development, Wildlife, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[How to Save Snow Leopards How to Save Snow Leopards: An interview with Dr. Rodney Jackson of the Snow Leopard Conservancy Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com October 28, 2008 The snow leopard (Panthera uncia) is one of the rarest and most elusive big cat species with a population of 4,500 to 7,500 spread across a range [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[How to Save Snow Leopards How to Save Snow Leopards: An interview with Dr. Rodney Jackson of the Snow Leopard Conservancy Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com October 28, 2008 The snow leopard (Panthera uncia) is one of the rarest and most elusive big cat species with a population of 4,500 to 7,500 spread across a range of 1.2 to 1.6 million kilometers in some of the world&#x27;s harshest and most desolate landscapes. Found in arid environments and at elevations sometimes reaching 18,000 feet (5,500 meters), the species faces great threats despite its extreme habitat. These threats vary across its range, but in all countries where it is found &#8212; Afghanistan, Bhutan, China, India, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Nepal, Mongolia, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and possibly Myanmar &#8212; the species is at risk. In some countries snow leopard are directly hunted for their pelt, in others they are imperiled by depletion of prey, loss of habitat, and killing as a predator of livestock. These threats, combined with the cat&#x27;s large habitat requirements, means conservation through the establishment of protected areas alone may not be enough save it from extinction in the wild in many of the countries in which it lives. Camera trap picture of a wild snow leopard. Photo courtesy of the Snow Leopard Conservancy Working to stave off this fate in half a dozen of its range countries is the Snow Leopard Conservancy. Founded by Dr. Rodney Jackson, a biologist who has been studying snow leopard in the wild for 30 years,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2008/10/how-to-save-snow-leopards/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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