.FROM . . . . .THE . . . DIRECTOR...... & . . . . BOARD...... CHAI . . . .R ...... Over the past fifteen years, the Snow Leopard We’re also making solar-powered Foxlights Conservancy has worked according to the deep available, so herders will have a portable and conviction that mountain communities—too easily-installed predator deterrent. These flashing often ignored by policymakers—need to have a lights scare away snow leopards; with their flocks key role in snow leopard conservation. Your safe, herders will have no reason to hunt down support and investment is allowing us to serve and kill the magnificent cats. as the facilitators in a holistic approach that In Mongolia, communities celebrated our addresses livelihood improvement and nominee, Tungalagtuya Khuukhenduu, for conservation education as necessary elements receiving a Disney Conservation Fund Hero in community-based protection of these iconic Award for her innovative Nomadic Nature Trunk cats. program, bringing conservation education to Together with our local partners, our sights children in Mongolia’s remotest corners. remain set on alleviating livestock depredation, Your support for our Sacred Sites–Sacred addressing poaching, and expanding locally- Species program made progress possible in driven wildlife monitoring, while honoring building our snow leopard range-wide community traditional practices and ways of knowing. of Indigenous Cultural Practitioners (ICPs). We’re Several events occurred this past year that excited to continue developing our program for have led us to reconfirm our commitment to monitoring of snow leopards and data-recording communities. by ICPs in a way that supports the goals of the In April an earthquake devastated Nepal, as Global Snow Leopard Ecosystem Protection Plan. detailed on page 7 of our report. This catas- At the same time, we’re coordinating a ground- trophe has renewed our commitment to breaking collaboration to develop measures of promoting economic prosperity in Nepalese success from the indigenous point of view. communities while simultaneously protecting Please continue reading this report to learn the snow leopard. In response to the quake, we more about how your gifts are protecting snow are forming partnerships to expand our leopards. successful Savings and Credit network to put We are looking forward to a productive 2016, money in the pockets of those villagers who were and are ever grateful to you for continuing on this hardest hit by the natural disaster. journey with us.
Rodney Jackson Caroline Gabel Founder-Director Chair
2 . . . . . Annual Report 2015 . COMMUNITY...... -.BASED . . . . . CONSERVATION...... ACTION...... BHUTAN Partners: Bhutan Foundation; Nature Recreation and Ecotourism Department; Jigme Dorji National Park
Staff of Jigme Dorji National Park and seven members of the Yutoed and Nubri communities visited Ladakh, India, to learn about SLC-India’s highly successful Himalayan Homestay program. A similar program is being developed in Bhutan, operated by local women, as a culturally appropriate and wildlife friendly alternative livelihood. Following the model of Mongolia's Nomadic Nature Trunks program, Bhutan Foundation began developing an educational “Snow Leopard Chest” for distribution to schools and teachers in the National Park. The Chest includes lessons, posters, games, and other materials for conducting interactive educational exercises aimed at increasing community awareness of the importance of protecting the snow leopard, its natural prey (blue sheep, below right), and its high-mountain ecosystem.
Photos: Bhutan Foundation
Veterinarians continued treating domestic dogs, carriers of a form of mad-cow disease, a major cause of mortality among yaks (above) in Bhutan. Regular treatment of domestic and feral dogs is the most cost-effective means of controlling this serious disease, and for fostering long-term community support for protecting large predators like the snow leopard. Concluding three years of collaboration and mentoring, we are happy to announce that the Bhutan Foundation and Jigme Dorje National Park will assume responsibility for program administration.
Snow Leopard Conservancy’s Mission
Ensuring snow leopard survival and conserving mountain landscapes by expanding environmental awareness and sharing innovative practices through community stewardship and partnerships
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Annual Report 2015 . . . . . 3 . COMMUNITY...... -.BASED . . . . . CONSERVATION...... ACTION...... INDIA Partner: Snow Leopard Conservancy-India Trust
The Conservancy secured funding from the Australian Himalayan Foundation for Snow Leopard Conservancy-India to carry out corral predator-proofing in the remote district of Zanskar. Community consultations and assessments of livestock depredation were carried out, and four corrals were completed with four still under construction. Delays were mostly due to uncommonly heavy rains in the region, which resulted in flooding that washed out trails and bridges. In turn, communications and transportation were severely affected. People who had planned to work on the corrals were instead engaged in road and bridge repair. It took a month for wire mesh to reach Zanskar, where the order would normally have been delivered within a week. Given the changing weather patterns across the region, corral improvements will now be undertaken in spring as soon as the snow melts.
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For every corral secured, up to five snow leopards are prevented from preying on the livestock within. Cats like the one above, photographed via trail camera by SLC-India, are thus safe from retaliation by herders.
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Partner: Nomadic Nature Conservation
Congratulations to the Conservancy’s partner and nominee Tunga Khuukhenduu on receiving a 2015 Disney Conservation Hero Award!
The Disney Conservation Fund’s Conservation Heroes program celebrates individuals around the world for their passion to conserve nature and create a brighter tomorrow. As a researcher, Tunga recognized that rural Mongolians had no access to environmental education. Working with conservation organizations like the Conservancy, she created “Nomadic Nature Trunks,” which are travelling classrooms for school students, with interactive lesson plans on conservation of Mongolia’s ecosystems.
Nomadic Nature Conservation
Tunga’s dynamic and playful teacher training style (seen above) has made this program extremely popular with remote communities in Mongolia’s Altai Mountains. The Conservancy facilitated adaptation of the model Tunga created, for use in Bhutan in 2015. Tunga shows her Conservation Hero medal to a friend.
Annual Report 2015 . . . . . 5 . COMMUNITY...... -.BASED . . . . . CONSERVATION...... ACTION...... MONGOLIA, Continued
Tunga undertook evaluation and monitoring in six snow leopard protected areas to assess the effectiveness of the Nature Trunk program. These sites are a two-day drive from the capital, Ulaanbaatar, where half of Mongolians live.
Nomadic Nature Conservation Evaluation methods included key informant interviews, focus group meetings, and questionnaires, such as are being completed by this herder couple.
Survey questions included whether the community gained new knowledge about biodiversity conservation, wildlife, and mountain predators; whether the teaching skills of park staff, community leaders, and teachers has been improved; what challenges if any were encountered in using the trunks; whether the community’s negative attitudes towards snow leopards are changing; and whether best management practices are being implemented in the pilot areas. Results of the evaluation revealed that the trunk program is thriving in far western Mongolia’s Altai Mountain region, where eco-clubs have been initiated by particularly motivated teachers. In the southern Gobi desert areas, further training and encouragement are needed for the program to gain widespread acceptance.
*Park staff in the protected areas rated the trunks as *In Uvs Province, >50% of eco-club graduates go on the most important tool for public awareness work. to major in environmental studies. One respondent has a son studying biology, another who’s a bird- *Many teachers asked for their own trunk to keep at watcher and researcher, a daughter with a Forestry the school. They also asked for a refresher training. degree, and another working as a geologist.
*One biology teacher developed her own lesson plan *Uvs Province has participated with Russia’s Tuva based on the trunk contents and training she region in a trans-boundary summer eco-club; the received; Nomadic Nature Conservation staff were Tuva protected area administration has asked for invited to sit in on the class. their own trunk.
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NEPAL
Partners: Department of National Parks & Wildlife Conservation; National Trust for Nature
Conservation-Annapurna Conservation Area Project (ACAP), Lo Manthang Unit Office
Students from four schools in Upper Mustang celebrated Environment Day with a snow leopard awareness rally and inter-school art competition. The next day, a group of five boys and nine girls—all Snow Leopard Scouts—hiked with their teachers and a local herder to the site of the Environmental Awareness Camp. Scouts learned about ways to reduce conflict between humans and wildlife, such as predator proofing corrals and installing Foxlights. They also were taught to use binoculars, GPS, and camera traps. They found fresh signs of snow leopards and classified a herd of blue sheep seen through the spotting scope.
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The magnitude 7.8 earthquake in April, followed by a 7.3 after- shock in May, brought disaster to this country, which has a land area almost as large as Illinois. Over 8,000 people were killed, almost 3 million more displaced, nearly a million homes and over 5,500 government buildings were destroyed or damaged. Economic losses exceeded a third of the national GDP of about $20 billion.
Due to the earthquake we had to suspend most of our snow leopard conservation activities, such as corral predator-proofing, seen above, at least through 2015.
Annual Report 2015 . . . . . 7 . COMMUNITY...... -.BASED . . . . . CONSERVATION...... ACTION...... NEPAL, Continued
In response to the devastating quake, we determined to expand our successful Savings & Credit program initiated in Sagarmatha (Mt. Everest) National Park. The Park, prime snow leopard habitat, was one of the hardest hit by the quake. The program was established in four communities too far off the main Everest Base Camp trekking trail to significantly benefit from tourism. The goal was to help local households increase their income as a means for mitigating the periodic loss of livestock to wildlife. There are now 179 members in four associations, primarily led by women, who have continued to make monthly deposits and to grow their principal. Fifteen percent of interest received is invested in community conservation and protection of snow leopards. We did postpone the planned training in livelihood enterprises until the area has recovered enough to resume normal life. Unfortunately, the country continues to struggle with ongoing poli- tical instability, complications in distributing aid funding, and moving forward with rebuilding.
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A Savings & Credit Association member receives her loan.
Indicators of the success of the Savings & Credit program include the anti-poaching actions taken by members of one group. They seized traps set for Himalayan pheasants and also detained poachers and then handed them over to the park authorities. Also, three groups have provided financial support from their profits to area schools via a Conservation Education Fund.
8 . . . . . Annual Report 2015 . COMMUNITY...... -.BASED . . . . . CONSERVATION...... ACTION...... PAKISTAN
Partner: Baltistan Wildlife Conservation and Development Organization-Project Snow Leopard (BWCDO), with the support of Pakistan’s Wildlife Department
I will put all my efforts to help the people of the remote areas. We will support the school teachers’ training for the quality of education in Basha Valley, and we appreciate the educational efforts done by BWCDO. Special thanks are due to Ghulam Muhammad, General Manager BWCDO for his hard work to boost conservation and education for the poor people in the remote areas of Baltistan. - Deputy Director of Education for Baltistan
Since 2003, the Conservancy has facilitated the efforts of the Baltistan Wildlife Conservation and Development Organization in the Northern Areas region. Under Ghulam Mohammad’s direction, boys and girls have had the opportunity to learn about their high mountain environment.
BWCDO/Project Snow Leopard
In 2015, the Deputy Director of Education for Baltistan attended the snow leopard program (under way above) and emphasized the importance of conservation education in remote areas.
Annual Report 2015 . . . . . 9 . THE. . . .BIG . . .PICTURE ...... SACRED SITES–SACRED SPECIES & GLOBAL ECOSYSTEM PROTECTION PLAN
A conference, “Seizing an Alternative,” was held in June at Claremont College in Southern California. It was organized on the assertion that if humanity is to avoid catastrophic conditions we must begin to live and think according to an ecological worldview. As the world grapples with climate change, there is a growing recognition and acceptance by Western science—with its linear, quantitative world view—of Indigenous, circular, interrelated ways of knowing, and how important these ways are to the challenge of saving our planet.
Snow Leopard Conservancy staff, and members of the network of Indigenous Cultural Practitioners being facilitated by the Conservancy, attended the conference. Seen here is Almaz Akunov, Kyrgyz traditional Eagle Hunter (Falconer as the ancient practice is known in the West), making a presentation about his organization, which is reviving Eagle hunting by involving Kyrgyz young people.
After the conference, our Sacred Sites–Sacred Species network met to lay groundwork for a workshop in 2016 aimed at engaging Indigenous Cultural Practitioners in improving cultural components of education programs, monitoring wildlife, and recording data in a way that supports the goals laid out by the Global Snow Leopard Ecosystem Protection Plan. We also began defining Indigenous indicators of conservation success, such as a significant dream or encounter.
10 . . . . . Annual Report 2015 . FRIENDS...... & . . . . IN. .- KIND. . . . DONORS...... IN APPRECIATION
In-Kind Donations ESRI, mapping software Genentech, Macbook Pro computer Glitchbusters, computer tech support discount Jens Hauser, wildlife photographer Seagate, external computer file storage Watermark Press, printing discount Ian Whalen, Foxlights
Chris Chris Llewellyn,Sacramento Zoo
The Conservancy’s staff, board and volunteers gave 460 hours of their time, worth $10,000. The individuals below have given extraordinary gifts of time and expertise. The organizations have provided a platform for outreach and donations
Ebay Giving Works Charleen Gavette, GIS mapping Sujin Lee, website design Network for Good OneToday by Google Paypal Giving Fund John Sichi, website design Fauna Tomlinson, predator deterrent coordination
Kid Power!
Maya Erlenbaeva Snow Leopard Day celebrant, Teenager Kyle Trefny’s greeting cards, made from Sailugmsky National Park, Altai Republic his own paintings, generated $475, close to matching the amount he raised in 2014. Thank you Kyle!
Annual Report 2015 . . . . . 11 . OUTREACH...... &. . . . PUBLICATIONS......
Taking Techology Out On-line feature: in the Cold: Working Homestays for to Conserve Snow Leopards Snow Leopards in the Himalayas
Drawing: AhlbornRoxy
Episode 51: The Leopard in the Land
Wendy Lama, ecotourism development specialist & co-owner of Karma Quest Ecotoursim and Adventure Travel, was senior author on an article, Marriages of Convenience: Tips for Win-Win Partnerships in Sustainable Community-based Tourism. The piece featured Himalayan Homestays in Ladakh, a program facilitated by the The Leopard in the Land Conservancy. Karma Quest is our partner in annual fundraising trips to DVD is now available Ladakh in search of the snow leopard. through Amazon.
Rodney Jackson’s paper, Human Wildlife Conflict: Ten Years Later: Successes and Shortcomings of Approaches to Global Snow Leopard Conservation, was published in Human Dimensions of Wildlife: Wine Country Nature Lecture Volume 20, Issue 4, July 2015, pages 310-316. Series Kickoff
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Special Donations In Memory of In Honor of Mel: Christyna Ivers Robert Aitchison: Chicago Cornea Consultants Ltd. Peter Mathiessen: John Lloyd Allison Anders: Ashley Beckham Bob Musgrove: Lisa Musgrove Paul Dubois: Crystal Martin Susan Simpson: Jenny Randall Fabien Dubuet: Shadia Savo Tango: Duncan Ward Lonnie Dupre’s Vertical Nepal Expedition: Robert Marshall Rinchen Wangchuk: Joanna Collins Eidbo Family: Nannette Fischer Caroline Gabel: John Cutler Rod Jackson & Darla Hillard: Duncan Ward Legacy Gift Ed Jarret: Kathleen Burke Estate of Sherry Goodman Colleen Lambo: David Orban Marshall Mott: Michelle Strong In Aid Of Nepal Earthquake Victims Perry Nelson: Amy Tao Barbara George & Jerry White Hope Peterson: Laura Valentini Johanna Schumy: Zoe & Annika Barsness Spot: Janet Williams 14 . . . . . Annual Report 2015 . .FOUNDATION ...... &. . . . CORPORATE...... SPONSORS......
Special shout-out for including the Conservancy in Quarters for Conservation!
Thanks to our sponsors for helping save wild snow leopards like this beauty, Australia caught via trail camera in Ladakh, northern India by SLC-India Trust Program Manager Jigmet Dadul.
FINANCIALS
Since its creation, the Conservancy's average percentage of Fundraising and G&A is less than 20%. Our higher-than-average percentage for this category in 2015 reflects one-time expenses associated with strategic planning, staff expansion, and the temporary cessation of our work in Nepal as a result of the earthquakes that devastated that country in April and May.
Annual Report 2015 . . . . . 15 Current U.S. Headquarters Staff
Rodney Jackson, Ph.D. Founder-Executive Director Kurt Zimmerman Assistant Director Darla Hillard Education Director Stefanie Shackelford Development Director Joyce Robinson Bookkeeper
Current Board of Directors
Caroline Gabel Chair Rodney Jackson President Chris Wemmer Vice-President Mary Herrmann Secretary Tshewang Wangchuk Director Misha, by Chris Llewellyn, Education Specialist, Sacramento Zoo Current Advisory Board
Christine Breitenmoser- IUCN Cat Specialist Group Würsten, Ph.D. Renee Bumpus Conservation Manager, Houston Zoo Sign up for our newsletter: Don Hunter, Ph.D. Founder, Rocky Mountain Cat Conservancy Kristin Nowell Director, Cat Action Treasury http://snowleopardconservancy.org/stay-in-touch Barb Palmer Large Mammal Keeper, Denver Zoo Camille Richard Rangeland Ecologist Follow the Snow Leopard Conservancy Blog: George Schaller, Ph.D. Panthera http://snowleopardconservancy.org/blog Mike Weddle Former Science Instructor Bob Wilson Treasurer, Farallones Marine Sanctuary Association
2015 COUNTRY PARTNERS
Bhutan Nepal Russia Bhutan Foundation National Trust for Nature Conservation/ Altai Alliance: Jigme Dorji National Park Annapurna Conservation Area Program Altai Assistance Project Nature Recreation and Ecotourism The Altai Project Department Foundation for Sustainable Development of Altai WWF–Russia India Pakistan Kalpavriksh Baltistan Wildlife Conservation & Snow Leopard Conservancy–India Trust Development Organization-Project Snow Leopard United States-based Collaborators Denver Zoo Mongolia Duquesne University Irbis Mongolia ______Snow Leopard Network
Snow Leopard Trust Mongolian Academy of Sciences, All photos by Snow Leopard Conservancy Institute of Biology unless credited otherwise. Worldwide Indigenous Science Nomadic Nature Conservation Cover photo © Jens Hauser Network
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