Bhutan Street Children

Bhutan is a tiny Himalayan country meaning that it’s very rocky and in many parts hard to breathe there. Not the ideal place for vaccine campaigns. Still during a campaign Bhutan vaccinated nearly all eligible adults in a week. That’s more than 540,000 people across some of the world’s toughest terrain! (Unicef)

The German journalist Diana Jervis now published an article about the most dangerous airports in the world…and one of them was located to Paro in Bhutan. They even require a special qualification certificate to allow for a pilot to land there. The airport is completely surrounded by a mountain range of 5.000 metres height. Planes can enter through a crack in the mountain range only which of course is extremely hard to get through.
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Re-upload: As far as I’m informed, this photo shows street children in the streets of Bhutan, one of the poorest countries in the world. “http://www.actionaid.org.uk/100002/about_us.html” belongs to an organisation that helps people from not only this country, but from other very poor countries, too. On this website they even inform you of how to get involved.

The German animal-aid organisation “NABU” says that in the capital of Kyrgyzstan (Bishkek) there now was a Snow Leopard Summit – invited were politicians from all countries that offer a habitat to this big cat – to discuss how best to protect the remaining wild, “endangered” population of snow leopards. One topic was how many problems China’s so-called “New Silk Road”-Project reviving ancient trading roads means for the protection of this leopard. Those attending this summit came from Bhutan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Mongolia Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, China, India, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan.

The latest episode of the German TV-show “TopZehn”, an adaption of the American TV-show “Alltime10” was about “10 Countries That Are Impossible To Invade” and named Bhutan as one of them.
They argue that Bhutan is one of the most secluded countries worldwide. Being 4.000 metres above sea level this terrain is impossible for military tanks to reach. In addition to that the not so poor India supplies this least developed country with arms and money and even is engaged in the training of Bhutan’s army. Also the promise India made to protect Bhutan with the first one’s own army in case of invasion kind of gives some mental support.

Supported by the Bhutanese government the German animal-aid organisation “NABU” – according to their own words – now started a project in this country to find out whether or not the native snow leopard actually is functionally extinct in the wild. After all very few facts are known about this animal. All we know is that poachers illegally kill them to sell their bones for some kind of illegal pseudo-medicine as well as their fur. Also it’s a known fact that in Bhutan many people are so poor they have to hunt the same prey as the snow leopard for the meat.
Thus by building camera-traps, by examining excrement belonging to wild snow leopards and by examining carcasses of animals that potentially could have been killed by snow leopards, “NABU” hopes to find out more about the population of snow leopards in Bhutan.