Alliances
Standing on Sacred Ground [2015]
Our friends at Sacred Land Film Project, another Earth Island Institute project, are thrilled to announce the broadcast of this award-winning 4-film series.
Read MoreA Conversation with Don Weeden, Executive Director of the Weeden Foundation [2014]
How did you first learn about The Altai Project? I inherited The Altai Project when I came on as Executive Director of the Weeden Foundation 12 years ago. I knew virtually nothing about Altai at that time. Upon educating myself, I was impressed with the potential for landscape-scale conservation in Altai and the availability of…
Read MoreGathering of Indigenous Leaders in Hawaii [2016]
Traveling from deep in the center of the Eurasian landmass to the Hawaiian Islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean
Read MoreCommunity-Led Big Cat Protection in 2014 – Thank You, Disney!
The snow leopard population in Argut has been declining over the years. It is thought that the area can sustain more than 20 leopards, but in the 80s and 90s, poaching almost completely extirpated the big cat. When conservation efforts began in 2010, there were perhaps only 3-6 cats. Thanks almost entirely to Altaisky State…
Read MoreConservation of the sacred Ukok Plateau [2020]
Ukok is unlike any other place in the world…pristine, magical, and spectacular.
Read MoreStudying Snow Leopards in Argut and around Altai – 2011
In 2010 Panthera awarded a generous conservation research grant to SUNY-ESF’s James Gibbs to support the first high-tech snow leopard research in Altai Republic. The grant provided for the purchase of camera traps and supported expedition time to study the snow leopard population in the Argut River watershed. This, in combination with financial and material…
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