News & Stories

Protecting Prey to Protect the Predators

As livestock numbers in northern India grow, some of the snow leopard’s main prey species populations are shrinking fast. The cats – and other predators such as wolves – are increasingly forced to predate on domestic animals instead.  In the remote, high altitude valleys of Jammu and Kashmir, where the estimated average annual family income …

Snow Leopard Enterprises – Look Good While You Do Good!

The beautiful handmade products we’re offering to you through our award-winning community conservation program, Snow Leopard Enterprises, are going to look great on you and in your home. And they are an important source of income for people who live with snow leopards – and are empowered to protect them thanks to Snow Leopard Enterprises. …

Pakistan: More Women Empowered to Help Their Families and Snow Leopards

This summer, the Snow Leopard Foundation, our partner NGO in Pakistan, conducted a special training session for women artisans in Chitral, aiming to improve the quality of the products they craft as part of our community conservation program, Snow Leopard Enterprises. The training helped strengthen and expand these women’s skills, empowering them to continue to …

Women Reaching Out to Help Protect Snow Leopards

Our team in India recently coordinated a trip of a women’s organization from Kibber village in the Spiti Valley to visit Ladakh. The purpose of the visit was to expose them to three organisations in Ladakh working closely with women self-help groups from the villages in Ladakh. The hope is that this will motivate them …

Livestock Vaccination and Snow Leopards

With an estimated 200-420 snow leopards, Pakistan ties India for the third largest population of this threatened cat and a national level assessment deemed the species Critically Endangered within the country. We are expanding a proven conservation model, our livestock vaccination program, into two valleys in Gilgit-Baltistan, the province with the highest concentration of snow leopards …

Reaching Out to Communities in Mongolia

This summer our team traveled approximately 2,500 km overland and visited 9 of the 27 communities where we have implemented community based conservation programs with our Mongolia partner organization, Snow Leopard Conservation Fund (SLCF). We wanted to better understand the communities and threats to snow leopards by meeting with them to discuss their ecological, environmental, cultural, …