Oct. 23 - International Snow Leopard Day!

[Becky]

According to the Snow Leopard Conservancy, October 23 is the first International Snow Leopard Day! To mark this special day, they are happy to share the release of the updated Snow Leopard Survival Strategy (SLSS), and celebrate a new and invigorated effort to secure the future of these magnificent cats, with local communities and range state governments in the forefront. The SLSS assesses threats, opportunities and the most effective initiatives for meeting the goals of the Global Snow Leopard Ecosystem Protection Plan. Under the banner of “20 by 2020” they aim to protect twenty landscape populations of snow leopards, each comprising at least 100 breeding adults, with sufficient prey and functional genetic connectivity. They give many thanks to the entire community of snow leopard conservationists and researchers for the hard work that went into this crucial document.

Details here: http://snowleopardconservancy.org/wp-...

[Becky]

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[Paul]

Becky wrote: "According to the Snow Leopard Conservancy, October 23 is the first International Snow Leopard Day! To mark this special day, they are happy to share the release of the updated Snow Leopard Survival..."

Thanks for posting this info, Becky! Good to hear about efforts to preserve Snow Leopards. If I could see ANY animal in the wild, I might choose Snow Leopards-they are so stunning in appearance. But even if I could travel to where they still live, I wouldn't actually do it, so as not to harass the ones that are trying to survive. It's heartbreaking to read about how their habitat has shrunk so.