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Snow Leopard hunt by Adam Riley (INDRI Ultimate Wildlife Tours)

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Our group watching the first Snow Leopard from a knoll above our camp in Hemis National Park. At this very spot, on our first afternoon in the park, and within half an hour of officially beginning our Snow Leopard search, our expert local spotter had exclaimed “ Shan !!” – the Ladakhi name for Snow Leopard.

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Big Cat Week on Nat Geo Wild

4 The Love Of Animals

This is not only a great television event, Nat Geo WILD’s Big Cat Week is an extension of National Geographic’s Big Cats Initiative (BCI), a long-term commitment to halt the decline of these iconic animals in the wild. Here is a sneak peek from the show Return of the Clouded Leopards.

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Birding and Safari-ing South Africa with the ABA

10,000 Birds

Some birders told me they had no birding community in their home areas, which, for me, encapsulated the best reason behind the Safari (and other ABA big events)–the development of a national birding community. The leopards place their kill in a tree, protecting it from poaching by other predators.

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Big Cat Week!

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The seven-night television event features visually stunning and powerfully resonant stories of nature’s fiercest felines! Tonight’s premiere episode, Big Cat Odyssey , follows lions and leopards through Africa’s harshest climatic extremes. Big Cat Week starts tonight on Nat Geo WILD! Are you ready?

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Birding on a Busted Foot

10,000 Birds

The next day my foot was mended enough to head back into the bush, but it was nice that my day in camp was as eventful as the bush would have been! Even a Leopard Tortoise dropped by! Blue Waxbill.

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Trick or Treat for Big Cats

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Did you know that the Amur leopard is one of the most endangered animals in the world? Did you know that lions, tigers and other felines are vanishing at an alarming rate? There are more tigers in captivity than in the wild! Doesn’t that just sound wrong? Let’s help ensure that big cats make a comeback.

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Falakhe’s Story

10,000 Birds

It’s a natural event, part of the natural “Circle of Life” as Disney might have it. It was Falakhe, who had dragged himself twenty kilometers on two broken legs past Hyaenas, Lions, Leopards and jackals. Lithe, with a missing back leg and an anti-snare collar. Those collars save lives. Sponsor one here.

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