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The snow leopard conservation education initiative, led by partner Teka Samuha Nepal (TSN), is designed to solidify a culture of coexistence between mountain communities and snow leopards. The collective goal of this program is to combine formal education with memorable, participatory experiences for all, while highlighting local voices and their experience of living among snow leopards.
Beyond the classroom, Teka Samuha Nepal conducts its highly coveted Snow Leopard Scouts program, an immersive field experience that brings conservation education to life in actual snow leopard habitat. Participants, including students, conservation teachers, local government representatives, field rangers, and community members, gather at high-altitude sites for hands-on learning about snow leopard monitoring and conservation.
Teka Samuha Nepal conducts snow leopard conservation curriculum advocacy workshops across rural municipalities that have proved instrumental in advancing institutional adoption of snow leopard conservation education. The workshops bring together governmental officials and administrators, forest officers, headmasters, teachers, and journalists. They represent a strategic success in ensuring that snow leopard conservation education becomes permanently embedded in local educational systems.
Teka Samuha Nepal has partnered with a local radio station to broadcast a series of snow leopard conservation programs. The station covers six districts in Nepal with an estimated 100,000 listeners and 69,000 followers, making it an ideal platform for reaching remote mountain communities. Broadcasts cover issues related to snow leopard conservation, focusing on community-based approaches.
Teka Samuha Nepal has introduced an innovative approach to community engagement through intimate "Snow Leopard Tea Talks,” - small, informal gatherings designed to create spaces for open dialogue about local conservation issues. Participants include senior citizens, former rural municipality chairmen, women's group members, herders, homestay and hotel owners, teachers, and local government representatives.
International Snow Leopard Day provides an opportunity to bring conservation education into the public sphere through celebrations and community events which successfully raise public awareness and generate visible community support for snow leopard conservation.
We are reigniting our partnership with Bhutan Foundation in 2026 to sponsor the Promoting Ecological and Community Engagement (PEaCE) project in Jigme Dorji National Park. This program will bring our mission to protect snow leopards and support local communities to the highlands of Bhutan.
We are expanding our One Health - One Welfare program by partnering with zoologist Kartik Thevar, who will work with Sikkim's Himalayan Zoological Park to empower wildlife caretakers through hands-on training and mentorship. With this partnership, he will be advancing care standards for wildlife unable to return to the wild.
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Snow Leopard Sisters
documentary
The Snow Leopard Conservancy is proud to be the impact partner for the upcoming feature documentary, Snow Leopard Sisters, featuring the work of our longstanding local partner Tshiring Lhamu Lama and her ground-breaking conservation efforts to preserve the snow leopard population in her home district of Dolpo, Nepal. We are working together to reduce retaliatory killings through local education programming, construction of predator-proof corrals, and establishing a green local economy enmeshed with snow leopard conservation.
- Directors: Ben Ayers, Sonam Choekyi, Andrew Lynch
- Writers: Ben Ayers, Andrew Lynch
Art & Poetry Contests
Each year, the Snow Leopard Conservancy holds an Artwork & Poetry Contest with the hope that these creative works will be instrumental in helping us to develop awareness of the snow leopard and foster an understanding not only of its importance to the high mountain ecosystem but also its value to local communities as both a cultural and spiritual icon.
