Global Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Protection Program
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Population Assessment of the World’s Snow Leopards
The GSLEP program and its partners are engaged in an initiative to assess the global population of the threatened snow leopard. Click below to learn more about this project and participate.
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LATEST NEWS
Sustainable economies and biodiversity conservation in snow leopard landscapes
Asia’s leaders launch new programs for snow leopard conservation
The winners of the Vanishing Treasures Communication Workshop on Climate and Environment Storytelling have been selected!
Country updates 2021
Vanishing Treasures Communication Workshop Climate and Environment Storytelling
Transboundary cooperation for the snow leopard and its ecosystems conservation in Central Asia
How Bees and Trees Protect Snow Leopards
Key News from WWF Russia 2021
Call for Submissions #EncounterUncia
6th Steering Committee Meeting of the Global Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Protection Program, 22 October 2021
PAST EVENTS
The 2022 Bishkek Resolution of the Global Snow Leopard and Ecosystem
Asia’s leaders launch new programs for snow leopard conservation
The winners of the Vanishing Treasures Communication Workshop on Climate and Environment Storytelling have been selected!
Vanishing Treasures Communication Workshop Climate and Environment Storytelling
Transboundary cooperation for the snow leopard and its ecosystems conservation in Central Asia
How Bees and Trees Protect Snow Leopards
The goal of the GSLEP
The goal of the GSLEP program is to secure at least 20 landscapes by 2020. Various activities, including workshops, high-level meetings, briefings,…
3rd GSLEP Steering Committee Meeting
The Bishkek Declaration 2017 was adopted by the 12 snow leopard range countries during the International Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Conservation…
International Snow Leopard Day – 2016
Committed to raising awareness for the plight of an iconic species, the twelve Asian countries that are home to the cat celebrated October 23rd,..
SNOW LEOPARD RANGE COUNTRIES
Uzbekistan
In Uzbekistan the edge of the snow leopard’s range is represented by boundary areas of two independent, unconnected groups – Tien-Shan and Pamir-Alai. Both populations occupy territories, which are developed as the result of extensive…
Kazakhstan
The snow leopard is an official symbol of Kazakhstan, which was a suggestion of President Nursultan Nazarbayev. Thus,…
Kyrgyzstan
There are about two percent of the world’s species of flora and more than three percent of the species…
Afghanistan
Afghanistan encompasses the far western range extent of the snow leopard’s distribution. Included within Afghanistan’s range is the Wakhan Corridor, the narrow panhandle of land in Badakhshan province (in the far northeast of the…
Tajikistan
Tajikistan contains around 250-280 snow leopards primarily within the Pamir Mountain range. Tajikistan is located in the center…
Country updates 2021
PARTNERS
Snow Leopard Trust
The Snow Leopard Trust has been an active partner of the GSLEP program since its inception. SLT supports the secretariat through secondment of staff for program coordination, hiring of senior advisors, hosting the website,…
Snow Leopard Trust
The Snow Leopard Trust has been an active partner of the GSLEP program since its inception. SLT supports the secretariat through secondment of staff for program coordination, hiring of senior advisors, hosting the website,…
Global Environment Facility
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has been an active partner of the GLSEP program since its inception. GEF has provided financial and technical support through series of regional and national projects on snow leopard…
University of Central Asia (UCA)
The University of Central Asia (UCA) was founded in 2000 based on an international treaty signed by the Presidents of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan and His Highness the Aga Khan. UCA’s mission…
Snow Leopard Conservancy
Snow Leopard Conservancy has been a GSLEP program partner since its inception. SLC’s senior staff provide technical expertise based on nearly four decades of snow leopard research and conservation, particularly in participatory, community…
Snow Leopard Network
The Snow Leopard Network is a worldwide organization dedicated to facilitating the exchange of information between individuals around the world for the purpose of snow leopard conservation. Our membership includes leading snow leopard experts…
Wildlife Conservation Society
The Wildlife Conservation Society has been a GLSEP program partner since its inception. As the first international conservation organization to perform focused snow leopard field research (dating back to George Schaller’s fieldwork the 1970s),…
University of Central Asia (UCA)
The University of Central Asia (UCA) was founded in 2000 based on an international treaty signed by the Presidents of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan and His Highness the Aga Khan. UCA’s mission…
Flora and Fauna International
Fauna & Flora International has been an active partner of the GSLEP program since its inception. FFI supports the program through organization and facilitation of country and regional level snow leopard conservation workshops, provision…
United Nations Development Programme
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has been an active partner of the GSLEP program since its inception…
Pallas’s cat International Conservation Alliance
Marwell Wildlife
Marwell Wildlife and Beijing Forestry University (BFU)’s Wildlife Institute, led by Dr Shi Kun, have formed a collaborative alliance to further develop their programme of work for the snow leopard started by Dr. Philip…