Jonny publishes final PhD paper

From left: Rinzin Phunjok Lama, Maurice Schutgens, Jonny Hanson and Nikki Shrestha during fieldwork in Nepal in 2014

Jonny’s final PhD paper – with input, data and analysis from co-authors Maurice Schutgens, Nabin Baral and Nigel Leader-Williams – on the potential of snow leopard tourism in the Annapurna region of Nepal has been published open access in Taylor & Francis’s Tourism Planning & Development journal.

Click the link to read or download: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21568316.2022.2122073

Jonny’s penultimate PhD paper published

Jonny and research assistant Rinzin P Lama interviewing a Buddhist monk at Thame monastery, Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal, February 2014

Jonny’s penultimate PhD paper on human-snow leopard coexistence in Nepal’s Everest & Annapurna regions has just been published open access in Springer Nature’s Environmental Management journal. Click here to read or download the article.

Mountains of the mind

It’s not the imposing spires of the Himalayas that are the world’s most challenging peaks; it’s the mountains of the mind. These mental massifs also dictate the success or failure of snow leopard conservation, and of nature conservation in general. Some parting thoughts from the series in Snow Leopard Fieldwork Diaries 19.

The voices of those who matter II

Conservation = nature + human nature. But it’s the human nature bit that’s the tricky part, especially where large carnivores are concerned. Snow Leopard Fieldwork Diaries explores the nuances of these relationships in Nepal’s Annapurna Conservation Area.

Seven days in Little Tibet

One of the world’s most remote and extraordinary places, Nepal’s NarPhu valley has everything: stunning scenery, challenging trekking, Tibetan Buddhist culture, Cold War history. And did we mention the snow leopards? A week of wonder in Snow Leopard Fieldwork Diaries 17.

Himalayan Fawlty Towers

In Snow Leopard Fieldwork Diaries 16, Jonny and the team experience the Himalaya’s very own version of Fawlty Towers, and live to tell the tale. There’s never a dull moment in conservation social science research…

Stairway to heaven

3 planes, 2 buses, 3 jeeps + 12 hours of walking on the stairway to heaven just to get to snow leopard country, and my closest encounter so far with the mountain ghost. Snow Leopard Fieldwork Diaries 12 explains.