Snow leopard population
: 500-1,000
Snow Leopard Enterprises, founded in Mongolia in the late 1990s,
encourages snow leopard conservation while helping increase the
incomes of rural Mongolians through handicraft
production. Nearly 300 herder-artisans and their families in
six provinces of Mongolia are involved today.
In 2009 conservation efforts were improved by SLT and Snow
Leopard Conservation Fund (SLCF) by introducing village-run
insurance programs which were created to directly compensate
herders for losses. 16 families piloted the new program, insuring
2,325 heads of livestock