As many as 400 snow leopards are believed to exist across the
two northern most provinces of the Pakistan where the Hindu Kush
and Karakorum ranges merge.
In 2009 the Snow Leopard Trust was able to double the size of
the "snow leopard friendly" vaccination program. Having surveyed
over a dozen communities in the northern district of Chitral five
sites were prioritised for expansion. All the new villlages
signed Conservation contracts with the Trust to refrain from
poaching and in return over 9000 animals from 700 households
received inoculations.
What was of particular significance was the new area joining the
progam forms a connective corridor to other snow leopard ranges
which allows a genetic flow between these distinct portions of snow
leopard range.