Snow Leopard Conservancy -- Associates (Andrew Chinn)

Andrew Chinn

In the summer of 2004, Andrew Chinn traveled to the Baltistan and Khunjerab regions of Pakistan’s Northern Areas, serving as a field assistant for the Snow Leopard Conservancy. He assisted in the training of local game watchers in sign survey techniques and the set-up and operation of remote camera traps. He also interviewed shepherds regarding herding and guarding practices while promoting predator proofing of livestock corrals, filmed and recorded interviews, and prepared and presented scientific talks to shepherds and representatives of the Conservancy’s local partner, the Khunjerab Village Organization, focused on community based stewardship of the snow leopard. In 2006 Andrew made a follow-up visit with a local Pakistani consultant to develop a methodology for identifying depredation hotspots in the Khunjerab National Park buffer zone, conduct a baseline corral inventory and create an action plan.

Andrew has served as Head of the Invertebrate Department, Sharjah Breeding Centre for Endangered Arabian Wildlife, United Arab Emirates where he managed and supervised staff, supervised illegal animal confiscations in Dubai and Sharjah, assisted in capture and release of oryx and gazelle, and participated in planning for an endemic Arabian tahr and Arabian leopard presence/absence study.

Andrew assisted the Pampas Carnivore Project in Argentina’s Sierra La Ventana National Park, giving training in radio telemetry and the use of various trapping methods leading to a Geoffroy’s cat and pampas fox radio collaring study. He was the resident naturalist at the Explorer’s Inn Lodge, Tambopata Reserve in Peru, where he lectured, led tourist groups on excursions into the sub-tropical moist forest, and carried out mammal survey transects.

Andrew has worked as an environmental field studies tutor at the Kingswood Environmental Education Centre in England, preparing and leading biology field trips for A-level students. He volunteered with ARCHELON- The Sea Turtle Protection Society of Greece, leading night tagging of nesting loggerhead sea turtles, running transects during the sea turtle nesting period, and training volunteers in nest protection, relocation and excavation techniques.

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