Snow Leopard Adoptions and Conservation

Care for the Wild International’s work to help snow leopards is wide ranging and is funded by our snow leopard adoption scheme and donations from supporters. As with all of our work we aim to make a difference by providing practical help to aid animals in most need.

Only 4,000 to 7,000 snow leopards are believed to survive in all of central Asia and the Himalayas. Already extinct in some of their former range, the species as a whole is declining and is in danger of becoming extinct altogether!

Threatened not only by destruction of their natural habitat and a lack of prey due to hunting, snow leopards are being decimated by poachers. Snow leopards are trapped, killed and traded for pelts and other body parts. They are also sold live to zoos, circuses and private collections.


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Care for the Wild International provides sanctuary and long-term care for rescued and orphaned snow leopards in Kyrgyzstan. We also work with the German Society for Nature Conservation (NABU) to protect wild snow leopards from poachers.

Care for the Wild International has built a Snow Leopard Rescue Centre in Kyrgyzstan where confiscated and orphaned snow leopards can be cared for and eventually returned to the wild. The animals are guarded 24 hours a day to protect them from poachers.

Alcu and Bagira are two orphaned snow leopards that live at the centre. In 2003, Care for the Wild International funded the construction of what is believed to be the world’s largest snow leopard enclosure where the two leopards now live.

Much of the work we do is funded by our snow leopard adoption scheme which allows people to support these helpless animals. The rest of our work is funded by donations from our supporters.

Our aim is to make a difference and help snow leopards wherever they are in need which is why we are fighting to stop poaching in Asia and the trade of snow leopard parts all over the world.

Our work with snow leopards is just part of Care for the Wild’s practical work to fight animal cruelty, promote animal welfare, rescue and help animals in need and make a difference!

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