![]() The prosumer lower cost version was the LA and LD, a play on words for "Lowcost Analog" and "Lowcost Digital (SDI)" capture devices. The parent product was the ('Io') a play on words for Input/Output. You could write a Windows driver for it as a DV device but none was ever written by AJA.ĪJA partnered with Apple to design this to work with Final Cut Pro 2 as a logging and capture device. It uses an AJA proprietary transfer protocol over the firewire, its not DV and its not any kind of PC recognized compression format. The drivers install cleanly and Quicktime 7 works with the Profiles to capture Uncompressed 10 or 8 bit to files. My experience was pretty darn good with this device. With an average altitude of 4,000 metres and winter temperatures regularly hitting -50C (-58F), it is one of the harshest inhabited places on Earth.I got an AJA Io LA the other day and hooked it up to my 10.6 Snow Leopard Mac Mini. On the Alichur plateau, a largely ethnic Kyrgyz region in the far north-east of the country, an ex-hunter called Mahan Atabaev runs a 92,000-hectare reserve. We have very few other sources of income here – the benefits to the community are enormous. “This year, the conservancy funded a new medical centre and built bear-proof fencing around our fields. Ismatullo Habibuloev, head of the local village, Zhigar, agrees. “Thanks to hunting, we employ 20 people and improve local infrastructure.” “Without trophy hunting, there would be no conservation here,” says Mulloyorov. In this remote mountainous region, where jobs are scarce and most families have at least one person working in Russia (a flow of money hit first by Covid and now the invasion of Ukraine), this income is a lifeline for many. In 2021, the M-Sayod conservancy was awarded three of Tajikistan’s 12 markhor licences, with hunters paying between £100,000 and £145,000 to shoot one goat, 30% of which went directly to the reserve. “I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve seen a snow leopard, but every time I see one it makes me feel alive,” he says.Ī Pamiri wildlife ranger and his donkey. Mulloyorov, a shy, taciturn man, lights up when asked about the leopards. A team returning in 2016 identified 10 cats in the same area. In 2013, six were recorded here, the highest density at that time in the world. ![]() More markhor means more of their main predator, the snow leopard. Afghans even used to cross the river to hunt snow leopards and sell their skins.” “Life was so difficult back then people hunted to survive. “We used to hunt markhor for meat – we didn’t know they were an endangered species,” says Khudoydod Mulloyorov, whose father, Devlatkhan, founded the reserve. Without trophy hunting, there would be no conservation here Khudoydod Mulloyorov ![]() The family-run reserve has seen a tenfold increase in Bukharan markhor ( Capra falconeri heptneri), a wild goat with emblematic spiral horns, since the conservancy was founded in 2005. One of these success stories is the M–Sayod markhor conservancy in the western Pamirs, whose 35,000 mountainous hectares border northern Afghanistan. In recent years, however, a network of grassroots initiatives have reversed this decline – and that of other species – and Tajikistan now has five community-run conservancies covering a total of 150,000 hectares (580 sq miles), with more in various stages of formation. A group of male Bukharan markhor browsing in the Dashti-Jum reserve in Tajikistan. ![]()
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