Every day tiny increments of progress. No one knows how few leopards there are left, no one knows on any given day how much conflict there will be. Leopards don't just live in protected areas like icon species, they are a far ranging highly important ecosystem engineer. But they are a secret cat, not a tourism species and they have taken enough human life to spread fear and misunderstanding. Being a defender of these animals is damn hard because of their profile but slowly gains are being made. Every child lost and every leopard lost in the meantime hits hard, for some there are wounds that will never heal but we can live with leopards, we just have to keep learning how and put measures in place. Today is another day to keep doing that...
In Nepal the word "Tiger" can refer to any of the wild cat species including the Forest Leopard (panthera pardus). This incredibly adaptive cat has been my focus for several years now and I'm striving to improve co-existence between people and the leopard... This blog brings updates of our ground level work linked to wildtiger.org - wildleopard.net
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Many thanks to those who have been following this blog as well as prior to that The Asa Diaries and TigerTrek. I'm now blogging a...
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Two more people killed by leopards in last thirty six hours in South Asia, including a six year old girl in Baitadi, west Nepal. On averag...
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Way behind in replies, will get there, always do, just takes time. The leopard Dipnani is doing well, a long way to go in the process bu...
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My piece below is reference to the article written for Onward Nepal by senior environment journalist, researcher, colleague and friend,...