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					<title>From Africa to Central Asia, the European roller’s migration builds relationships</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/from-africa-to-central-asia-the-european-rollers-migration-builds-relationships/</link>
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					<pubDate>09 May 2026 07:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Malavikavyawahare]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, China, Europe, India, Kenya, Somalia, South Africa, Southern Africa, Tanzania, and Uzbekistan]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Birds, Climate, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecosystems, Environment, Habitat Loss, Migration, Research, Species, Wildlife, and Wildlife Corridors]]>
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							<![CDATA[The European roller is a small, striking migratory bird that breeds in open woodlands — or farms and orchards — across Europe and Central Asia. Coracias garrulus is also well-known to Southern and South Africa&#8217;s avid birdwatching communities, including many citizen scientists who participate in the Southern African Bird Atlas Project. But the rollers that [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The European roller is a small, striking migratory bird that breeds in open woodlands — or farms and orchards — across Europe and Central Asia. Coracias garrulus is also well-known to Southern and South Africa&#8217;s avid birdwatching communities, including many citizen scientists who participate in the Southern African Bird Atlas Project. Image courtesy of Lourenço Afonso. But the rollers that spend November to March in South Africa appear to be mostly the C. g. semenowi subspecies. The routes these populations follow to their breeding grounds as far as 10,000 kilometers (6,200 miles) away in Central Asia are not known. Image courtesy of Ma Ming. Since 2024, scientists at BirdLife South Africa have fit tiny 3.8-gram (0.1-ounce) trackers to seven birds to investigate the birds’ migration routes and stopover sites. Image courtesy of Jean-Richard Snoer. The tagged rollers traveled north through Tanzania and Kenya, paused in Somalia, and then flew on to Central Asia via Oman and India. One individual ended up in China, two others in Uzbekistan. Image courtesy of BirdLife SA One year&#8217;s tracking of just seven birds has connected South Africa to bird clubs in Gujarat, India, and a Chinese researcher studying the rollers&#8217; breeding behavior in Xinjiang, China. Image courtesy of Ma Ming. BirdLife SA&#8217;s tiny staff dedicated to the European Roller Monitoring Project is supported by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. The tracking devices are paid for by individual donors. Image courtesy of Jean-Richard Snoer. In the years ahead, Flyway and Migrants Project&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/from-africa-to-central-asia-the-european-rollers-migration-builds-relationships/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-319029</doi>				</item>
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					<title>US proposes zero new protections for traded wildlife at upcoming CITES CoP</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/us-proposes-zero-new-protections-for-traded-wildlife-at-upcoming-cites-cop/</link>
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					<pubDate>18 Aug 2025 15:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Spoorthy Raman]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sharon Guynup]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Central Asia, Global, North America, United States, and Uzbekistan]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Conservation leadership, Crime, Endangered Species, Endangered Species Act, Environment, Environmental Policy, Governance, Illegal Trade, International Trade, Politics, Saving Species From Extinction, Solutions, Sustainability, Wildlife, Wildlife Trade, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[At the end of 2025, representatives from 185 countries will convene in Uzbekistan to discuss the fate of sharks, African hornbills, hyenas, vultures, palm trees and other threatened species. The group’s decisions will, in part, decide the survival and the future of widely traded fauna and flora as they vote whether to set limits on or [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[At the end of 2025, representatives from 185 countries will convene in Uzbekistan to discuss the fate of sharks, African hornbills, hyenas, vultures, palm trees and other threatened species. The group’s decisions will, in part, decide the survival and the future of widely traded fauna and flora as they vote whether to set limits on or bar the international trade of these species and their parts, including fins, heads and skins. This will be the 20th meeting of signatories to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Flora and Fauna (CITES), one of the world’s oldest conservation treaties. These “Conference of the Parties” (CoP) discussions, held once every three years, will convene from Nov. 24 to Dec. 5 in Samarkand. They offer an opportunity for the world to rein in the unsustainable, multibillion-dollar wildlife trade, both legal and illegal. For species like the elephants, rhinos, tigers and numerous others, trade is the greatest threat to their long-term survival. The United States has traditionally been a leader in conservation, affording and securing protections to species at risk, including those exploited by trade. But this year, the country&#8217;s role seems to have weakened as a leader at CITES: It has sponsored only four proposals for consideration at the upcoming CoP, the lowest in the last 10 CoPs — 25 years. In total, 51 proposals are up for discussion to regulate or ban the international commercial trade of wildlife and its products. For the first time, none of the U.S.-backed proposals support&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/us-proposes-zero-new-protections-for-traded-wildlife-at-upcoming-cites-cop/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-304329</doi>				</item>
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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>
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							<![CDATA[Anne NeumannChristiane RöttgerJohannes Stahl]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<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>Uzbekistan plants a forest where a sea once lay</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/uzbekistan-plants-a-forest-where-a-sea-once-lay/</link>
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					<pubDate>29 May 2024 15:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sonam Lama Hyolmo]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Central Asia, and Uzbekistan]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Afforestation, Community Forests, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Desertification, Drought, Environment, Forest Loss, Forestry, Forests, Nature-based climate solutions, Solutions, and Wetlands]]>
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							<![CDATA[Between the borders of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, the Aral Sea, once the lifeblood of peoples in both countries, is parched, shrouded in a layer of toxic salt and dust that’s now taking a heavy toll on the health and farmlands of these very communities. Since the Aral Sea, technically a lake, began shrinking in the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Between the borders of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, the Aral Sea, once the lifeblood of peoples in both countries, is parched, shrouded in a layer of toxic salt and dust that’s now taking a heavy toll on the health and farmlands of these very communities. Since the Aral Sea, technically a lake, began shrinking in the 1960s, governments on both sides of the border led initiatives to revive tiny fractions of it. But Soviet-era dams, diverting waters feeding the sea to cotton monocultures, squelched the dream. As the Aral Sea dried out, a desert, the Aralkum, emerged and continues to expand on what used to be the lakebed. Today, the bed is caked with a thick layer of salt and of pesticide runoff that crystallized, creating a toxic cocktail of sediment on the ground. When the wind blows, this salt and dust can coat entire communities. Now, instead of trying to restore the lake, officials from the Uzbekistan Forestry Agency and locals are trying to plant a new forest where it once rested. The main purpose of the afforestation project it to curb the harmful sandstorms and improve the ecosystem by planting desert-tolerant plants like saxaul (Haloxylon ammodendron) on the lakebed. The current plan is to establish forests covering a total area of 150,000 to 200,000 hectares (371,000 to 494,000 acres) in 2024. Karakalpakstan, an Uzbek region that’s home to the Karakalpak people, is one of the most sandstorm-impacted areas in Uzbekistan. More than 300 residents of Karakalpakstan and around 150&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/uzbekistan-plants-a-forest-where-a-sea-once-lay/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-282631</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Blue jeans: An iconic fashion item that’s costing the planet dearly</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/11/blue-jeans-an-iconic-fashion-item-thats-costing-the-planet-dearly/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/11/blue-jeans-an-iconic-fashion-item-thats-costing-the-planet-dearly/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>17 Nov 2022 15:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jenny Gonzales]]>
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						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Covering the Commons and Planetary Boundaries]]>
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							<![CDATA[China, Global, India, Pakistan, Southwest United States, and Uzbekistan]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[agribusiness, Business, Climate Change, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporations, Drought, Farming, Fashion industry, Fertilizers, Global Environmental Crisis, Global Warming, Globalization, Impact Of Climate Change, Industrial Agriculture, Pesticides, Pollution, Sustainability, Water, Water Pollution, and Water Scarcity]]>
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							<![CDATA[Likely the world’s most popular garment, jeans use huge amounts of water to grow irrigated cotton, a major factor in destroying the Aral Sea. Today, the industry, though making sustainability pledges, still does much harm.]]>
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							<![CDATA[Eternally current and always fashionable, blue jeans are among the most-worn articles of clothing on Earth, transcending time, trends, and social class. Their popularity is ubiquitous, so much so that legendary designer Yves Saint Laurent once declared: “I wish I had invented blue jeans. The most spectacular, practical, relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity — everything I hope for in my clothes.” Unfortunately for the planet, the production of this garment takes a huge environmental toll. A single pair of cotton jeans consumes between 10,000 and 20,000 liters (2,600-5,300 gallons) of water along its supply chain. Add to that large doses of synthetic pesticides, fertilizers, dyes and other chemicals that pollute soils and waterbodies, impacting wildlife and people, plus major energy expenditures that generate high greenhouse gas emissions. Those consequences haven’t slowed sales, with more than 70 jeans-related garments sold per second, according to the Science and Industry Museum, a Parisian institution that recently presented the exhibition “Jean.” That equates to more than 2.2 billion items bought yearly. While some companies are acting as early innovators in sustainability and have taken steps to make blue jeans “green,” the majors of the fashion industry, though declaring themselves committed to sustainability and to “the Jeans Redesign” circular economy guidelines, still work with oil-derived synthetic fibers and with conventional cotton, while chasing the idea that more production is always better. Fishing boats resting on the bottom of what was once the Aral Sea. Image by Arian Zwegers via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/11/blue-jeans-an-iconic-fashion-item-thats-costing-the-planet-dearly/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-262672</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]]>
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						<![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>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>
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						<![CDATA[Mike Gaworecki]]>
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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, Biodiversity, Cats, Conservation, Endangered Species, Environment, Global Environmental Crisis, Mammals, Research, and Wildlife]]>
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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 [&#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>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/05/new-research-suggests-there-are-three-distinct-subspecies-of-snow-leopard/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>30 May 2017 11:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mike Gaworecki]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Mike Gaworecki]]>
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							<![CDATA[Afghanistan, Asia, Bhutan, China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan]]>
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							<![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>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/02/the-spirit-of-the-steppes-saving-central-asias-saiga/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>27 Feb 2017 12:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Elizabeth Devitt]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<![CDATA[Almost Famous Animals]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia, and Uzbekistan]]>
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							<![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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					<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]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<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>Snow leopards and other mammals caught on camera trap in Uzbekistan (photos)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2014/01/snow-leopards-and-other-mammals-caught-on-camera-trap-in-uzbekistan-photos/</link>
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					<pubDate>16 Jan 2014 20:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Central Asia, and Uzbekistan]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Big Cats, Camera Trapping, Carnivores, Cats, Endangered Species, Environment, Green, Mammals, Mountains, Parks, Photos, Predators, Protected Areas, Snow Leopards, Top Predators, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Scientists knew that snow leopards (Panthera uncia) still survived in the Central Asian country of Uzbekistan, but late last year they captured the first ever photos. Camera traps in the Gissar Nature Reserve took photos of the big cats, along with bear, lynx, ibex, wild boar, and other mammals. The camera trap program was led [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Scientists knew that snow leopards (Panthera uncia) still survived in the Central Asian country of Uzbekistan, but late last year they captured the first ever photos. Camera traps in the Gissar Nature Reserve took photos of the big cats, along with bear, lynx, ibex, wild boar, and other mammals. The camera trap program was led by biologists Bakhtiyor Aromov and Yelizaveta Protas working with Panthera, WWF&#8217;s Central Asia Program, and Uzbekistan&#8217;s Biocontrol Agency. Founded in 1983, Gissar Nature Reserve is the largest protected area in the country. At nearly 81,000 hectares it protects an region of the Pamir Mountain range larger than Singapore. A young ibex inspects a camera trap set in Uzbekistan&#8217;s Gissar Nature Reserve. Photo by: ©Y. Protas/Panthera/WWF Central Asia Program/Uzbek Biocontrol Agency/Gissar Nature Reserve. The IUCN Red List categorizes snow leopards as Endangered. Down to around 3,000-7,000 individuals, the great cats are imperiled by poaching, prey decline, human-wildlife conflict, and lack-of-knowledge about one of the world&#8217;s most elusive mammals. As one of the world&#8217;s biggest predators, snow leopards face a daunting challenge. A recent paper found that 75 percent of the world&#8217;s 31 biggest carnivores are in decline, including the snow leopard. &#8220;With an improved understanding of [snow leopard] range and numbers we have a better chance to save them,&#8221; Tom McCarthy, the Executive Director of Panthera&#8217;s snow leopard program, said, adding that &#8220;Panthera has provided over 300 camera traps through partnerships such as this to better document the range of this elusive and endangered cat of&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2014/01/snow-leopards-and-other-mammals-caught-on-camera-trap-in-uzbekistan-photos/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-25819</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>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/05/new-eco-tour-to-help-save-bizarre-antelope-in-forgotten-region/#respond</comments>
					<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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							<![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>Photos: world&#8217;s top ten &#8216;lost frogs&#8217;</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2010/08/photos-worlds-top-ten-lost-frogs/</link>
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					<pubDate>09 Aug 2010 18:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Australia, Borneo, Colombia, Costa Rica, Democratic Republic Of Congo, Ecuador, Guatemala, Indonesia, Israel, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Rwanda, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Venezuela]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amphibians, Animals, Climate Change, Diseases, Ecosystem Services, Endangered Species, Environment, Extinction, Global Environmental Crisis, Green, Habitat Loss, Herps, Impact Of Climate Change, Photos, Pollution, Rainforests, Saving Species From Extinction, Solutions, Water, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and Conservation International (CI) have sent teams of researchers to 14 countries on five continents to search for the world&#8217;s lost frogs. These are amphibian species that have not been seen for years—in some cases even up to a century—but may still survive in the wild. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and Conservation International (CI) have sent teams of researchers to 14 countries on five continents to search for the world&#8217;s lost frogs. These are amphibian species that have not been seen for years—in some cases even up to a century—but may still survive in the wild. Amphibians worldwide are currently undergoing an extinction crisis. While amphibians struggle to survive against habitat loss, climate change, pollution, and overexploitation, they are also being wiped out by a fungal disease known as chytridiomycosis. Currently experts estimate that 30 percent of the world&#8217;s amphibians are threatened with extinction, and that well over a hundred species have vanished in the last three decades alone. As a part of the search for lost frogs, experts have released a Top Ten list of frogs they hope most to find. &#8220;While it’s very challenging to rate the importance of one species against another we have created this top 10 list because we feel that these particular animals have a particular scientific or aesthetic value,&#8221; says CI&#8217;s Dr. Robin Moore, who has helped organize the search. TOP TEN LIST in photos and illustrations: Number one. Arguably the most known of the lost amphibians researchers are seeking. Once native to Costa Rica, the golden toad (Incilius periglenes) went from abundant to extinct in just over one year. The frog was last recorded in 1989. Debate continues as to the reasons behind its vanishment including climate change and possibly chytridiomycosis. Photo courtesy&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2010/08/photos-worlds-top-ten-lost-frogs/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-33803</doi>				</item>
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					<title>After declining 95% in 15 years, Saiga antelope begins to rebound with help from conservationists</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2009/09/after-declining-95-in-15-years-saiga-antelope-begins-to-rebound-with-help-from-conservationists/</link>
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					<pubDate>20 Sep 2009 20:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, China, Russia, and Uzbekistan]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animal Behavior, Animals, Bushmeat, Conservation, Ecology, Education, Endangered Species, Environment, Environmental Heroes, Green, Hunting, In-situ Conservation, Interviews, Mammals, Natural Resources, Poaching, Poverty, Poverty Alleviation, Saving Species From Extinction, Solutions, Wildlife, Wildlife Trade, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[An interview with Elena Bykova, founder of the Saiga Conservation Alliance 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 50,000, dropping a staggering 95 percent in a decade and [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[An interview with Elena Bykova, founder of the Saiga Conservation Alliance 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 50,000, dropping a staggering 95 percent in a decade and a half. Since then new legislation and conservation measure have helped the species stabilize in some areas but in others the decline continues. Working for six years with the Saiga Conservation Alliance, Founding Member and Executive Secretary Elena Bykova has helped bring the species back from the very brink of extinction. &#8220;I remember the time when the saiga was hunted and traded, and we all believed that it was one of most numerous game species in Eurasia,&#8221; Bykova, a native of Uzbekistan, says, but then she and other biologists began to notice that something had gone very wrong for the species. &#8220;We visited saiga habitat in Uzbekistan under this project and were shocked: so much of the Ustyurt plateau, where saigas once lived in Uzbekistan, looked like a dinosaur cemetery. It was covered by saiga’s skulls with succise horns, skeletons, and bones – terrible vision!&#8221; Working with saiga&#8217;s sometimes means surviving severe winters. Elena Bykova in Ustyurt. Photo by: Alexander Esipov. It was after witnessing the toll poaching had taken on the species that Bykova says &#8220;we all understood very clearly that it’s not enough for us to be only scientists &#8211; we must do&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2009/09/after-declining-95-in-15-years-saiga-antelope-begins-to-rebound-with-help-from-conservationists/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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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[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[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[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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