The Role of Incentive Programs in Conserving the Snow Leopard

Conservation Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1512-1520

  Mishra, Charudutt ^a,b   Allen, Priscilla ^a   McCarthy, Tom ^a   Madhusudan, M D ^b   Bayarjargal, Agvaantserengiin ^a   Prins, Herbert H T ^c  

^a Snow Leopard Network   (United States)

^b NATURE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION   (India)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARNIVORE; FELID; LIVESTOCK; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; PASTORALISM; PREDATION; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ASIA; EURASIA;

FELIDAE; PANTHERA PARDUS; UNCIA UNCIA;

EID: 0346843115     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2003.00092.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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