completed · Food Security· Education

Wildife Without Borders-Critically Endangered Animals

This project will intensify conservation initiatives of snow leopards in the Manaslu Conservation Area (MCA) with a primary focus on strengthening community engagement to reduce retaliatory killings and poaching of the leopard. Specific activities include: (1) strengthening community engagement on snow leopard conservation by forming community based snow leopard conservation committees, developing a community based leopard monitoring system, conducting education and awareness camps, and setting up a community based compensation system for livestock damage; (2) establishing a baseline database and developing a human-snow leopard conflict management action plan.