Snow leopards need help from kids too! Get involved and help us save these amazing cats. There are lots of ideas below (you’ll need to get help from your parents or teacher for some of them), or maybe you can think up some other ways to help.

Learn About Snow Leopards

Read in Cat Facts and elsewhere about snow leopards, where they live, why they are endangered, and what can be done to help them. Knowing about snow leopards and their fragile environment is the first step to helping these cats.

See a Snow Leopard Up Close!

The following map will show you where to find the nearest zoo that is home to a snow leopard. Click on the highlighted regions to see zoos with snow leopards. The zoos with yellow placemarks are members of our Natural Partnerships Program.

Educate Others

• Send eCards to friends and relatives!  These electronic postcards feature beautiful images of snow leopards and people from local Asian communities, as well as information about the endangered cats!
  
• Do a school project on snow leopards to teach your classmates about why this cat is endangered and how they can help it survive.
• Write a play or a song about snow leopards and perform it at a school assembly or your community theater.
• Make a poster about snow leopards and their ecosystem and ask if you can hang it in your school or community center.
• Tell your local zoo or write to your local or national government about snow leopards and why we should help them.

Protect Your Local Wildlife

If you live in a snow leopard country, help spread awareness about protecting the cat and the important prey species that snow leopards depend on to survive. 

If you don't live near snow leopards, find out which animals need protecting in your area and what you can do to help them.  When we all become more aware and take care of our local environment, wildlife all over the world benefits!

Organize a Fundraiser

• Work on your own or together with your classmates and friends to organize a fundraiser to benefit snow leopards.
• Hold a bake sale, a car wash, or a lemonade sale in your neighborhood or school.  Donate the profits to the Snow Leopard Trust, or adopt a snow leopard.
• You can also think up your own great ideas for a fundraiser!  One boy put up a big poster of a snow leopard at his school and raised money by having people buy "spots" to put up on the cat.

Adopt a Snow Leopard

No, you won’t have a snow leopard living in your house!  But through the Snow Leopard Trust’s adoption program you can help save one of the last remaining snow leopards in the wild.  Adopting a snow leopard is an interesting way to do something to help this beautiful species of cat, and is a good goal to work towards if you are having a fundraiser.

Sell Products From Snow Leopard Countries

Our Snow Leopard Enterprises program helps people who live near snow leopards in Mongolia, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Pakistan live in harmony with this majestic cat.  The communities help with conservation of the snow leopard, and we help them sell things they make with the wool from their sheep and goats.  We have lots of items like hats, rugs, cat toys, and more!

You and your friends or your classmates can help us sell these items made by people in snow leopard areas.  It works like this: we send you a sample of each item, and you take orders from your friends and family.  You send us the money for the items, and we send you the products to distribute to your customers.  Then we pass along the money to the families in snow leopard areas.

If you want to help us sell Snow Leopard Enterprises products, ask your parents or your teacher to help you organize the project, and have them contact us for more details.

Become a Member of the Snow Leopard Trust

Membership dues from people all over the world help the Snow Leopard Trust do research on snow leopards and their natural environment, work with communities in snow leopard areas to design conservation programs that will help people and cats at the same time, and do lots more activities to help save the snow leopard.  Ask your parents if your family can join the Snow Leopard Trust, or if you can save up your money and join yourself.

Tell Us Your Story!

We want to know about how you have chosen to help snow leopards so that we can let other kids know more good ideas to help.  Tell us about how you helped snow leopards.  (And send us a picture of your activity if you can!)  We might even put your story on our website or in our newsletter!

Thanks for all your help!