Recipients of 2008 Snow Leopard Grants
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Thanks to the Snow Leopard Grants Program, five snow leopard researchers in four countries will receive a total of $31,450 this year to study the cats, their habitat, and their prey. The grants program is a collaboration between Snow Leopard Trust, Snow Leopard Network, and Snow Leopard Conservancy, and was created to help independent researchers working in snow leopard range countries where funding resources are often scarce.
Congratulations to this year’s grant recipients, who will be working on the following projects:
Congratulations to this year’s grant recipients, who will be working on the following projects:
- Achyut Aryal (Nepal): Demography and Mortality Causes of Blue Sheep in Dhorpatan Hunting Reserve
- Jaffar-ud Din (Pakistan): Assessing the Status of Snow Leopard in Torkhow Valley, District Chitral, North West Frontier Province
- Dr. Rachael Jack (Pakistan): DNA testing and GPS Positioning of Snow Leopard Genetic Material in the Northern Areas of Pakistan for Utilization in Public-Private Based Snow Leopard Conservation Programmes
- Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi (India): Toward Snow Leopard Prey Recovery: Understanding the Resource Use Strategies and Demographic Responses of Bharal (Pseudois nayaur) to Livestock Grazing and Removal
- Tshewang Wangchuck (Bhutan): Using Non-invasive Genetics for Snow Leopard Monitoring