Tonight I am going back to Forsmark to continue the carnivore census there for a few days. We found a family group of lynx the last time around and a lot of other animals.
The purposes of the census is seeing how the new end-storage facility for radioactive material will affect wildlife in the area and also to see how a potential leak would spread in the ecosystem.
Struck by altitude sickness up in Ladakh, I came back home to Sweden yesterday. I am looking to go back there later on in the spring again.
I figured that I would feel like an alien in India but somehow it felt like home.
This is where I have been.
One evening two shadowy cats peeked down from one of the Himalayan hills – their creamy grey beauty warmed by the last rays of the setting sun as they sighted groups of ibex scattered around the mountain.
The snow leopard is a marvel to behold in its right environment.
I have just signed a deal with a publisher to author a book on the endangered snow leopard together with the Swedish author and photographer Jan Fleischmann.
We hope to make it a very exciting book with personal stories intertwined with hard facts and an update on the most recent research, as well as good pictures of the animals and interviews with people that are involved with snow leopards in various ways.
The book will first be published in Swedish and we are then looking to make it available in English and maybe German.
You will read more on our work with this book on this page as it progresses.
Please note that the picture is for illustration and may not be the actual front page of the book.
On 25 February we are hosting Rovdjurss
ymposium – Framtiden in Karlstad, Sweden. There is no cost and you need not pre-book. Everybody is welcome. See more in the invitation to the right.
“A leopard, which had strayed into the heart of the city [of Guwahati, India], attacked and injured a person at Nabagraha hill today. Panic struck locals tried to drive away the animal, which ran into a nearby house and was kept locked in it till forest department officials, who had been informed, rescued it, official sources said.”
Source: http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/leopard-attacks-man-in-guwahati/947492.html
I am still amazed by the Indian love of animals and life. Even though the leopard almost killed people they still tranquilized it and moved it – they didn’t kill it. In Sweden, a carnivore barely needs to show itself in a village for it to be shot. What a difference in mentality.
Jonatan Borling 