Cbapu Bardia DAY IS SOMETHING SPECIAL... It was great to have time out yesterday at the annual Community Based Anti-Poaching Unit (CBAPU) day at Janaknagar. Particularly relevant on World Wildlife Day is understanding the role of communities, those actually living with wildlife. Yesterday's event was in an area which had seen rhino poaching problems in the past so staging the event there this year was important strategy, part of sound thinking by National Park staff, the military anti-poaching team and CBAPU. Congratulations again to everyone involved, I'll post more images later. There is so much energy and thought going into dealing with these issues at community level, this is real conservation and while there are still many challenges, Bardia is showing a way forward.
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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This and other updates are at Facebook if you wish to comment. Despite the oncoming pre-monsoon heat, the mighty Annapurnas gave us...
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The image is Asis with the two leopard cubs, Tika and Ram. I'll have more soon on the "good cop, bad cop" strategy we are...
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The posts for this blog are also at Facebook (if you wish to comment) along with other updates I don't post here. Ram's (...