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Apple Developers Eager to Get Hands on iPhone, Leopard
2017-06-19 12:07:07| eWEEK Macintosh
Macintosh developers expect to learn everything there is know about the iPhone and Mac OS X Leopard at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco June 11-15.
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How a Hunting Reserve Became a Snow Leopard Sanctuary
2016-06-15 14:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: How a Hunting Reserve Became a Snow Leopard Sanctuary Kyrgyzstan's president is taking bold steps to protect a crucial Central Asian population of the cats, long seen as sacred by his citizens. Saving Kyrgyzstan's snow leopards is a high priority for the species. In March the country's president set aside a former hunting reserve as a protected natural habitat for the animals. For the elusive snow leopard in Kyrgyzstan, a satisfying meal consists of an ibex or an argali. As it happens, these...
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South Africa bans leopard hunts due to uncertainty on numbers
2016-03-13 12:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: For the first time in decades, hunters with deep pockets will not be able to shoot all of the big five game animals in South Africa after the government banned leopard hunts for the 2016 season. The South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) recommended the temporary ban because it said leopard numbers could not be firmly established. There is uncertainty about the numbers and this is not a permanent ban, but we need more information to guide quotas, John Donaldson, SANBIs director...
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Climate change threatens survival of snow leopard
2015-10-31 10:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Asia News: More than a third of the natural habitat of the snow leopard could become hostile to the felines life because of climate change, thus further endangering a species whose population has declined by 20% in the past 16 years. These are the findings of a recently published report by WWF experts, entitled "Fragile connections - Snow leopards, people, water and the global climate. They are calling for "international action" to safeguard the fragile Himalayas mountain environment that, in addition, supplies...
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Can we save the snow leopard from climate change?
2015-10-25 16:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: In a report published this week, the World Wildlife Fund suggests the snow leopard is in serious danger from climate change, with as few as 2,500 breeding adults left in the wild. Their habitat spans across rocky, mountainous terrain in 12 central Asian countries. Climate change will further threaten the already endangered species, by encouraging local communities to migrate up the mountains, into snow leopard territory. Increased habitat loss and degradation, poaching and conflict with communities...
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