16
May
Panthera’s Film, My Pantanal, Screened at United Film Festival-New York Tonight at 7pm
Panthera’s film, My Pantanal, will be screened at the United Film Festival-New York at Cobble Hill Cinemas in Brooklyn, New York tonight at 7pm. If you live in the New York City area, be sure to join us for this screening and an exclusive Q&A with Andrea Heydlauff, the Writer and Director of My Pantanal and Panthera’s Vice President following the screening.
15
May
Tiger Cub Rescue Video & Remove a Snare Campaign Update
Dear Friend of Panthera,
As Panthera's Media Director and a photographer for National Geographic, I have travelled across Asia and witnessed the widespread impact of wire snares on tigers. While on location for NatGeo on the island of Sumatra, I witnessed and was able to photograph the harrowing rescue of a snared tiger cub by staff from the Wildlife Conservation Society, one of Panthera's partners for Tigers Forever.
14
May
Press Release: Panthera's Chairman Dr. Thomas Kaplan Awarded 2012 Intl Wildlife Film Festival's Hero of the Year
Panthera's Chairman and Founder, Dr. Thomas S. Kaplan, will receive the prestigious Hero of the Year Award at the 35th International Wildlife Film Festival (IWFF) this evening for his outstanding commitment and contribution to the conservation of the world's wild cats.
11
May
Honor Your Mother and Support Big Cats with One of Panthera’s Mother’s Day E-Cards
This Sunday, May 13th, is Mother’s Day. Let your mother know you care about her, and big cats, by sending one of Panthera’s beautiful e-cards. Panthera’s e-cards feature wonderful images of big cats, like the cheetah mother and cubs shown here, and can be personalized with a message of your choice for a minimum $10 donation. If you’d like to make a larger gift to Panthera in your mother’s name, please visit this page. All e-card and other donations go directly to the field to support Panthera’s work to protect the world’s wild cats.
10
May
Panthera’s Raffle: Support Jaguar Conservation and Win a Stay for Two at an Eco-Friendly Resort in Yucatan, Mexico
Through a generous donation from our partners at Bare Essentials Magazine and The Maya Foundation in Laakeech, we are pleased to offer Panthera’s supporters an opportunity to win a vacation for two at The Hacienda Chichen Resort & Eco-Spa in Yucatan, Mexico while supporting Panthera’s jaguar conservation initiatives!
This exclusive prize, valued at $1,200, includes:
09
May
Panthera’s Chairman, Dr. Thomas S. Kaplan, to Receive International Wildlife Film Festival’s 2012 Hero of the Year Award
We are proud to share that Panthera’s Chairman, Dr. Thomas S. Kaplan, will receive the Hero of the Year Award at the 2012 International Wildlife Film Festival (IWFF) this week for his outstanding commitment and contribution to the conservation of the world’s wild cats. As a passionate environmentalist and supporter of wildlife conservation, Dr. Kaplan and his wife, Daphne Recanati Kaplan, founded Panthera in 2006 to meet the global challenges of protecting the world's wild cats and their habitats.
03
May
Update from Dr. Luke Hunter: Watch & Share Our 'Remove a Snare' Video
Dear Friend of Panthera,
Wild cats and other wildlife are losing their lives, limbs and freedom to wire snares set by poachers. Crudely made from barbed wire, tension cables, or bicycle brake wire, snares are set in the thousands by people hunting small game, or by highly organized poachers targeting big cats for their skins and body parts that are sold on the illegal wildlife market.
01
May
Just Released: Fortune Brainstorm GREEN Video of ‘The Future of Big Cats’ Lecture by Panthera’s CEO, Dr. Alan Rabinowitz
‘The Future of Big Cats’ lecture given recently by Panthera's CEO, Dr. Alan Rabinowitz, at the 2012 Fortune Brainstorm GREEN conference has just been posted online. Watch Dr. Rabinowitz's lecture to learn about his wild cat conservation career, why we as humans must save big cats, current threats facing these species and the conservation models Panthera is using to save wild cats around the world, including the Jaguar Corridor Initiative and the Tigers Forever program.
27
Apr
Video from the Field: Unruly Snow Leopard Cubs in Pakistan
Today, as many as 400 snow leopards are believed to exist across the two northernmost provinces of Pakistan, and recently, scientists from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences and the Snow Leopard Foundation (SLF), whom Panthera partners with in the country, were lucky enough to capture two of these extremely elusive cats on camera. After retrieving digital images from camera traps set up in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan, the researchers were amused to find a series of photos showing a snow leopard cub sniffing and then upending an SLF camera trap!
26
Apr
Panthera Research Challenges Concept of Cougars as Solitary Animals
A recent article in Jackson Hole News & Guide reported on research carried out through Panthera's Teton Cougar Project in partnership with Craighead Beringia South (CBS) that challenges the concept that cougars are solitary animals, unless mating or raising young. For the first time, Panthera and CBS field scientists documented two adult cougars and their kittens sharing kills, a behavior that is more typical of African lions living in prides. These two female cougars, each with two kittens, have shared at least three kills in an area north of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and were joined by one adult male cougar on one kill.
