Snow Leopards

We confess the beautiful, enigmatic snow leopards are one of our favorite animals. Learn more about these endangered wild cats, and how you can help, below.

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Plush Snow Leopard

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The Snow Leopard Trust

Founded in 1981, the Snow Leopard Trust is the largest and oldest organization working solely to protect the endangered snow leopard and its Central Asian habitat. Their ground-breaking conservation methods involve improving the lives of the local people, as well as the beautiful snow leopards.

They use a combination of approaches that focus on partnering with communities in snow leopard habitat. But as they build community partnerships they use science and research to determine key snow leopard habitat, assess wildlife-human conflict levels, and identify potential resources for conservation programs. Once they have this information they can prioritize the areas where they will work. High priority areas include key snow leopard habitat, with a history of conflict between predators and the communities, and potential resources to sustain a community-based conservation program.

When the science and research identifies an area as a priority site, they spend a lot of time with local residents, listening to their hopes and concerns, and only then do they take the step of jointly developing a conservation program. The conservation effort must meet four important goals.

1. -The protection of snow leopards and their habitat, involving local communities in this effort.  
2. -An improved quality of life for the members of the community.  
3. -The program developed must have a path to becoming self-sufficient – where after a time it is no longer dependent on donor dollars.  
4. -The results of the program must be verifiable through monitoring programs.  

The Snow Leopard Trust strives to follow these principles in all its community-based conservation efforts and throughout their website you will read about the different projects that they are implementing. While the projects differ in response to the local needs and conditions, the underlying principles of each of the programs remain the same. They constantly endeavor to improve conservation projects to better meet the needs of cats and humans, and they are seeing wonderful results at project sites where the livelihoods of families and communities have improved greatly and snow leopards are being protected.