Developing Snow Leopard Enterprises products requires balancing several different goals.  One of these goals is for designers to combine traditional materials, techniques, and symbols with designs and colors that will appeal to the international market.  Another goal is for the products to illustrate the conservation aspect of the program – the motif of snow leopard paw prints on many items, for example – but still be simple to make.

Many of the handicrafts currently being produced were developed at a week-long design summit in the Kyrgyz Republic, in August, 2003.  The summit brought together artists and designers from the Kyrgyz Republic, Mongolia, and Russia; marketing experts from the US; conservation biologists; interpreters; and organizers from Mongolia, the Kyrgyz Republic, and the US.  The event resulted in an expanded Snow Leopard Enterprises product line with lots of new motifs and colors added.

Snow Leopard Trust staff conduct training workshops once or twice a year to teach participants how to make and improve the products. 

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Learn more about how Snow Leopard Enterprises:

• Helps impoverished families
• Saves endangered species