INVITATION TO THE EXHIBITION OPENING of the Nepalese photographer Tashi R. Ghale
Vernissage: Monday, 03 July 2023 at 18:00 - free admission
Exhibition: 04 July - 12 August 2023 - free admission
Gallery FOKUS, 8911 Admont, Hauptstraße 32
Monday to Friday continuously from 09:00 - 17:00, Saturday from 10:00 to 16:00
From next week, an exhibition by the Nepalese nature photographer and wildlife specialist Tashi R. Ghale can be admired free of charge at the FOKUS Gallery in Admont: "Snow leopards".
The show presents an intimate and visually powerful approach to what is probably the most impressive animal inhabitant of the highest mountain ranges on earth. The opening will take place on Monday, 3 July at 6 p.m. Visitors are also welcome without prior registration.
An inhabitant of the high mountains of Central Asia - the Altai, the Tian Shan, the Kun Lun, the Pamir, the Hindu Kush, the Karakoram and the Himalayas - the snow leopard lives on the "roof of the world", where its territory covers a vast landscape of more than three million square kilometres, including the twelve countries of Afghanistan, Bhutan, China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
Snow leopards share their range with pastoralist communities that require large grazing areas to support their livestock and livelihoods. The pace of rural development has increased greatly in recent decades, opening up previously remote parts of the snow leopard's range. In addition, livestock farming has expanded and intensified, and new factors have emerged that threaten the future of the snow leopard and its habitat, such as increased exploitation of resources and climate change.
Tashi R. Ghale is a true mountain man and photographer in the Himalayas. His native landscape and snow leopards are his two favourite subjects as he has been greatly influenced by the natural splendour of the surroundings of his childhood home in the Annapurna region, Nepal. Besides his passion for photography, he runs a trekking lodge, Hotel Mountain Lake in Manang.
Tashi monitors snow leopards as a Citizen Scientist for the Third Pole Conservancy. He was also the first photographer to document Pallas' cats in Manang, Nepal. The first photos taken of endemic Himalayan wolves in the Manang Valley in four decades were also taken by Tashi.
In 2016, he was awarded the Abraham Conservation Individual Award, administered by the World Wildlife Fund - Nepal, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to conservation and sustainable development in Nepal. He was also selected as a Disney Conservation Hero 2018, receiving the award for his commitment to protecting snow leopards and their habitat.
Enquiry notice:
Gesäuse National Park, Martin Hartmann, Tel: 0664-82 52 304
Gesäuse National Park, Andreas Hollinger, Tel: 0664-82 52 305
