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Your cashmere sweater is harming snow leopards. 29 Jul 2013 | 04:00 pm
A study released this week shows the growth in domestic cashmere goat herds across the Tibetan Plateau to Mongolia are threatening the snow leopard in this region. Research by the Wildlife Conservati...
Congratulations all – Etsy changes it’s policy on selling endangered animal products after 33,000 protest 24 Jul 2013 | 04:37 pm
It’s official. Etsy announced today it is changing its policy so no more items made of endangered animal products can be listed on the global marketplace website. In May I found a woman’s coat with ...
Etsy responds after 32,000 people from over 50 countries say -”Stop selling endangered animal parts” 18 Jun 2013 | 03:53 pm
After discovering snow leopard fur and other endangered animal parts for sale last month I contacted Etsy.com asking them to change their policy and remove the listings. Unfortunately they said it was...
Join the 22,000 who are telling Etsy to stop selling endangered animal parts 12 Jun 2013 | 08:40 am
22,000! That’s how many signatures we now have on the petition asking Etsy.com to take down all listings with endangered animal furs and parts, including snow leopard fur. Thanks to all who have signe...
Update on petition to Etsy.com – selling illegal animal parts 1 Jun 2013 | 04:20 am
Etsy.com selling illegal animal parts! The campaign to Etsy started when I found a real snow leopard fur listed by a seller earlier in the week. The Snow Leopard Trust kindly stepped in with a Petitio...
A heartfelt plea to Etsy from Afghanistan, home of snow leopards 31 May 2013 | 08:22 am
Here is a genuinely heartfelt plea from Mr Mostapha Zaher, the Director – General National of the Environmental Protection Agency, Afghanistan for Etsy to stop putting the 100 to 160 snow leopards le...
Please sign petition asking Etsy to stop selling endangerd wildlife fur 31 May 2013 | 05:31 am
We’ve ramped up the campaign to encourage Etsy to take a stand against selling wildlife parts. Sadly Etsy’s CEO Chad Dickerson still maintains it is up to individual sellers to decide what they will a...
Global website Etsy colludes in advertising real snow leopard fur 25 May 2013 | 05:49 am
I was horrified yesterday to see the world’s leading craft marketplace, Etsy.com complicit in selling endangered snow leopard fur. One of its sellers listed a woman’s coat advertised with “genuine rea...
Guest Blogger Lhendup Tharchen saves snow leopards in Bhutan 26 Feb 2013 | 12:59 pm
Lhendup Tharchen is a wildlife biologist and Park Manager in Bhutan. He is originally from Ura, a small village in Bumthang. Lhendup currently works in Jigme Dorji National park and his work focuses o...
Happy New Year to snow leopards and snow leopard supporters 13 Jan 2013 | 11:31 am
Happy New Year to all snow leopards and snow leopard supporters. I have been away for the last month firstly at a Global Snow Leopard Workshop in Kyrgyzstan (more on that later) and then a few weeks o...
