Why Snow Leopard Conservancy?
Snow Leopard Conservancy:
The Snow Leopard Conservancy believes that snow leopards are best protected through conservation efforts that grow from within communities living with the cats. These communities are the front line in preserving the biodiversity of the Higher Himalayas west of Tibetan Plateau. By recognising and appreciating the unique opinions and ideas of each individual and each community, while helping to determine the key factors threatening these cats, their prey and their habitat.
The Snow Leopard Conservancy offer material support and planning assistance in exchange for a community’s agreement to assume the primary responsibility for protecting snow leopards and other wildlife.
By presenting a model for grassroots action to address the conflicts between these big cats and the villagers who share their habitat. The program helps local people find ways to better manage their livestock and to protect them from snow leopards.
It is partly a local empowerment scheme, partly a blueprint for co-operatively building predator-proof corrals and partly a hands-on education program. We believe the Snow Leopard Conservancy's efforts will enable local villagers to see the snow leopard as the national treasure it is.
During your visit you have the opportunity to:
Guided by Snow Leopard experts, go trekking in the mountains of Ladakh, the perfect Snow Leopard Country
Interact with local communities and experts spearheading Snow Leopard conservation
Support the Snow Leopard Conservancy, a nonprofit organization involved in Snow Leopard conservation
The Snow Leopard Conservancy is dedicated to promoting innovative grassroots measures that lead local people to become better stewards of critically endangered snow leopards, their prey, and habitat.
The activities of humans threaten the survival of snow leopards, making people key to their protection and conservation. There is a growing market for the bones, skin and organs of snow leopards for traditional Asian medicine.
Villagers with growing domestic herds have moved into snow leopard habitat, crowding out the native prey. Villagers in the Higher Himalayas west of Tibetan Plateau depend on their flocks of sheep and goats to supply their family’s meat, dairy and wool products. Snow leopards are turning to this domestic prey which are corralled in roughly built stone pens that are easy for snow leopards to penetrate. Even in these predominantly Buddhist communities shepherds have little choice but to resort to retaliatory killings if many of their animals are lost to predation. Sadly, these magnificent cats can be surprisingly easy to kill, cowering in a corner of the livestock corral while being stoned to death.
The Snow Leopard Conservancy believes that snow leopards are best protected through conservation efforts that grow from within communities living with these cats. These communities are the front line in preserving the biodiversity of the higher Himalayas west of Tibetan Plateau.
The Snow Leopard Conservancy recognise and appreciate the unique opinions and ideas of each individual and each community, while helping to determine the key factors threatening these cats, their prey and their habitat.
The Snow Leopard Conservancy offer material support and planning assistance in exchange for a community’s agreement to assume the primary responsibility for protecting snow leopards and other wildlife.
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