Ensure that industry, mining, infrastructure, and rural development programs and projects are fully sensitive to the conservation
needs of snow leopards and their ecosystems, do not adversely affect or fragment key populations or critical habitats, and employ wildlife - friendly design, offsets, and other mitigation tools.
Not exact matches
Uzbekistan has identified the
need to update the Strategy and National Action Plan for the Conservation
of Snow Leopards.
But
snow leopard habitat is so large, hundreds
of square kilometers in fact, that Volodya
needs help to survey the region so I joined the team to do this with him this year.
Snow leopards move across vast territory and we
needed to cover as much
of this area as we could.
For us, this means we
need to work harder than ever to secure abundant wild prey, so that
snow leopard moms don't come into conflict with herders over livestock losses — one
of the biggest threats to
snow leopards across their range.
The movements between landscapes through steppe underscore the
need for paying attention to the intervening steppe habitats
of Central Asia while planning for
snow leopard conservation.