Conservation and community resilience: IWT Alternatives in snow leopard range
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Main
VALUE £310,000
WHERE Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan
Summary
In Tajikistan and the Kyrgyz Republic, pastoralists kill endangered snow leopards in retaliation for attacks on their livestock and poach ungulate prey species for subsistence, selling non-edible parts into the illegal wildlife trade.
Panthera proposes to capacitate conservancies to recover and monitor snow leopard prey numbers; predator-proof livestock corrals to reduce herders’ economic losses and eliminate snow leopard retaliatory killings; and build anti-trafficking capacity by expanding canine teams for wildlife law enforcement in border areas.
Working Dogs For Conservation (WD4C), CITES Secretariat, EcoEnforce, Pamir-Eco Cultural Tourism Association (PECTA), Committee on Environmental Protection under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan, Hunting Association of Tajikistan, State Agency on Environmental Protection and Forestry under the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic, Kyrgyz Customs State Service, Panthera Foundation
Over 600 arrests and more than 500 convictions in wildlife crime since 2017, alongside a decline in ivory trafficking cases and an increase in elephant and rhino populations.
