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| Cooperation between Dynafit and Snow Leopard Trust |
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How do you save snow leopards?
Snow Leopard Trust believes the answer begins with partnerships. By combining local voices with the latest science, the Trust protects endangered snow leopards and their mountain habitat. Dynafit, the “snow leopard” of the ski mountaineering world, has joined Snow Leopard Trust in this important effort.
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On November 17, 2006, a healthy, 35kg female was captured by our staff in Chitral Gol National Park. She was fitted with a GPS collar that will track her daily movements for the next 14 months. If successful, this project will give us a more accurate idea of how much space a snow leopard needs. Current estimates range widely between 65 sq km and 1,000 sq km! The study will also help us know whether the cats avoid human settlements and roads, or cluster around livestock areas. Stay tuned to learn more!
Dynafit is giving our field staff a boost through the donation of Softshell jackets. The steep, high-altitude terrain is comfy for snow leopards, but hard on our scientists. By keeping researchers warm and comfortable, Dynafit is making it easier for them to concentrate on finding these elusive cats.
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Conservation starts with community.
We cannot save these amazing cats without the support of the people who share their habitat. Snow Leopard Trust partners with communities to design conservation programs that address their specific needs. All programs help herders live peacefully among snow leopards. Snow Leopard Enterprises is a partnership between Snow Leopard Trust and herders living in snow leopard habitat. Families increase their income by selling traditional handicrafts. As part of the program, participating families protect snow leopards an their prey. Children directly benefit from the food, medicine, and schooling that the extra income provides.
From 2008 on you can receive a snow leopard ornament hand-made by a
nomadic community in Mongolia with a purchase of a Dynafit apparel.
Felting wool is a craft that stretches back before the time of Ghengis
Khan, and now you can take a bit of that tradition home with you.
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Since 1981, Snow Leopard Trust has been protecting the endangered snow leopard and its mountain habitat. Our successful conservation programs are based on solid research, and strive to:
- Stop poaching of snow leopards and their key prey species
- Improve the quality of life for local families
- Produce verifiable results through external monitoring programs
- Become self-sustaining
Together we can ensure the mountains will shelter these wild cats for thousands of years to come.
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Bayad’s Collar Found!
After a few tense months of wondering whether we would ever find the GPS collar that Bayad the snow leopard carried over a year, our dedicated team has at last claimed the prize, high in the mountains of Chitral, a district of Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province.
The collar has been programmed to drop off Bayad in January, so around the beginning of the year the research team began searching for and following the collar’s signal with our high-tech VHF receiver. After this proved fruitless- team leader Jaffar Ud-Din suspects that the area’s rough terrain caused the signal to bounce around and lead the searchers astray – SLT/WWF staff members Muhammad Ayub and Siraj Khan, along with Park Wildlife Watcher Zadir, decided to build their own tracking device using an old FM radio.
It worked! They soon found the collar in the buffer zone of Chitral Gol National Park, in what must have been a day den in a crevice high on a cliff face. Bayad probably went in and slept for the day, the collar opened as programmed, and she walked out leaving the collar behind in a very though place for the team to find it. Maqsood, another Park Wildlife Watcher, climbed in the tight crevice to retrieve the device.
The find opens up the next phase in our groundbreaking satellite-tracking study of wild snow leopards. The collar was designed to pinpoint and record the cat’s position using GPS technology every 8 hours, but as we previously reported in this newsletter, we had trouble uploading the data via satellite as planned. Now the collar is in hand we will soon access the 700 of more records stored in the collar itself. This will yield a more detailed record of the snow leopard’s daily movements than we have ever had before, and greatly increase our understanding of the cat’s behaviour in the wild.
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