The Snow Leopard Training and Evaluation Toolkit allows teams to practice identifying snow leopards, test how well they perform, and improve their skills. The evaluation scores quantify the uncertainty in snow leopard identification and thus can be added when reporting density estimates from camera traps.
camtraining.globalsnowleopard.org
This manual provides practical, step-by-step guidance on how to plan, implement and analyse double observer surveys to estimate ungulate population abundance in mountainous terrain. Such population estimates are useful for the long-term monitoring of ungulate species.
At the International Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Conservation Forum 2017 in Bishkek, the range country governments formally endorsed a plan to develop a global snow leopard population assessment. The ambitious initiative, called Population Assessment of the World’s Snow Leopards, or, in short, PAWS, aims to produce a robust estimate of the threatened cat’s population status within the next 5 years.
The GSLEP secretariat has been tasked with coordinating this initiative, and has developed an Action Plan which has been approved by the GSLEP Steering Committee.
PAWS aims to bring together the global snow leopard conservation community’s resources, manpower and expertise to jointly arrive at a scientifically robust population estimate.
Find out more on the GSLEP Website.
The GSLEP Secretariat and various partners have created a number of tools designed to help snow leopard scientists more effectively and efficiently collect and analyze population data, and to ensure that they are consistent with the recommendations of the PAWS Science Advisory Group.
Macro vs micro-level designs: The PAWS approach breaks assessing the abundance of snow leopard populations into two steps. First, we decide which areas to survey (macro level). Then, we decide where to place cameras in each survey area (micro level).
This GSLEP report provide the first assessment of the economic value of provisioning ecosystem services – the material goods from ecosystems – used by local people
Valuation of Ecosystem Services in Snow Leopard Landscapes of Asia
An Ounce of Prevention: Snow leopard crime revisited estimates that between 221-450 snow leopards have been poached annually since 2008 – a minimum of 4 per week.
https://www.traffic.org/publications/reports/an-ounce-of-prevention/
After nearly two years of effort, a new comprehensive guide to snow leopards has been published by Elsevier. This book is a part of the Biodiversity of the World: Conservation from Genes to Landscapes series edited by Philip J. Nyhus.
Over 200 authors were involved, many of whom are Snow Leopard Network members. The effort was led by editors and SLN members Dr. Thomas McCarthy and Dr. David Mallon.
The Snow Leopard Survival Strategy (SLSS) was designed to provide a clear road map for conserving the species. It is a product of the membership of the Snow Leopard Network.
The Irbis System monitors VHF transmitters and makes an alarm when the state of a transmitter changes. The Irbis System is designed for monitoring of trapsite transmitters such as Telonics TBT-500. It makes an alarm when an animal is trapped. This alarm occurs within a few minutes from capture. The time that trapped animals spend in traps is reduced to a minimum, reducing the risk to the animal. The alarm triggers a siren loud enough to wake a sleeping person. Click on the photo below for more information.
Surveying Snow Leopard Populations with Emphasis on Camera Trapping (2006)
