Timeline
Major milestones in the Global Snow Leopard & Ecosystem Protection Program’s history
3rd GSLEP Steering Committee Meeting
June 14, 2018
Representatives of the 12 snow leopard range countries gathered on the shores of Lake Issyk-Kul in June 2018 for the 3rd Steering Committee Meeting of the Global Snow Leopard & Ecosystem Program (GSLEP) to review their work towards implementing the Bishkek Declaration 2017. They came together to share their experiences and intensify their collaborative efforts towards conserving the snow leopard and its ecosystem across all range countries. At the meeting, representatives discussed the idea of a multi-country Global Environment Facility (GEF) regional project to help close funding gaps and implement national and cross-boundary big cat conservation priorities in Asia. The 3rd Steering Committee Meeting was hosted by the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic, and co-organized by the Global Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Protection Program (GSLEP) Secretariat, the United Nations Development Program, Snow Leopard Trust and the Global Environment Facility.
Read more2nd International Snow Leopard & Ecosystem Forum (2017)
August 24, 2017
The 2017 International Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Forum brought together heads and representatives of the Governments of the twelve snow leopard range countries as well as of other interested nations with leaders from international institutions, donor agencies, conservation organizations and scientific institutions. This high-level event further strengthened the range countries’ ongoing effort to protect the snow leopard and galvanized international support for their ambitious plan of securing 20 snow leopard landscapes by the year 2020. It resulted in the adoption of the 2017 Bishkek Declaration: Caring For Snow Leopards and Mountains – Our Ecological Future.
Read more2nd GSLEP Steering Committee Meeting
January 19, 2017
Key agenda items included: Identifying resource mobilization strategies for management plans that will serve as blueprints to secure them Working towards developing a joint strategy to enhance capacities in research and monitoring of snow leopards as well as in participatory conservation on a landscape scale. a common approach to understanding and combating poaching and illegal trade of snow leopards across the range.
Read more1st GSLEP Steering Committee Meeting
March 20, 2015
The first High level meeting of the Steering Committee of the Global Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Protection Program was held successfully on the 19th and 20th of March 2015 near Bishkek in village Koi Tash in the Kyrgyz Tien-Shan Mountains. The meeting of the Steering Committee was presided by the First Vice Prime Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic, Mr. Taiyrbek Sarpashev and attended by the Speaker of National Assembly of the Kingdom of Bhutan Mr. Lyonpo Jigme Zangpo. Representatives of…
Read more1st International Snow Leopard & Ecosystem Forum (2013)
October 21, 2013
President Almazbek Atambayev of the Kyrgyz Republic and officials representing 12 Central and South Asian countries outlined and endorsed an ambitious new global initiative in Bishkek at the 1st Global Snow Leopard & Ecosystem Forum in Bishkek to protect and conserve critical ecosystems in high-mountain landscapes inhabited by the iconic but endangered snow leopard. Joining with conservation experts from around the world and the international donor community, the 12 nations* endorsed the Bishkek Declaration on Snow Leopard Conservation and the Global Snow Leopard Ecosystem Recovery Program (GSLEP) *Afghanistan, Bhutan, China,…
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