Snow Leopard Survival Strategy - Panthera

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Income Generation Wildlife-based Ecotourism Establishing wildlife-based tourism that provides jobs and financial benefits to local people will add economic value to wildlife and create incentives to protect the resource. Research required prior to taking actions: • Identify target communities where tourism may alleviate a conservation issue, and where the community has indicated a willingness to initiate a program (using PRA or APPA) • Identify potential physical attractions: sites, views, locations, cultural events (festivals, etc. in particular ones connected to the snow leopard) • Identify wildlife attractions and determine chances of satisfying wildlife oriented tourists • Conduct market research to determine demand and identify target market • Conduct a feasibility study to assess infrastructure: access; transport; lodging etc. • Conduct socio-economic assessment of target community to enable positive impact monitoring • Conduct biological baseline survey to enable negative impact monitoring Action Guidelines Policy level Community level Steps: • Review country tourism policy • Educate decision makers about potential benefits of ecotourism • Integrate tourism development with any national or international campaigns such as Year of Tourism, or Year of the Mountain, etc. • Leverage any available government or multi-lateral aid funding for tourism development • Determine stakeholder groups, including local community representatives • Assess capacity of local community to provide guest service, wildlife guiding, etc, build on that to make it better • Determine training needs and sources of training • In collaboration with all stakeholders develop wildlife-tourism Plan with transparent distribution of financial benefits • Identify specific actions to be taken to benefit wildlife, such as establishment of conservation fund, grazing set asides, etc. • Develop monitoring protocols and success indicators with community input • Develop wildlife-tourism marketing strategy Stakeholders: • Local, regional, national governments • NGO’s • Local communities • Tour operators and travel agencies • Transportation agencies • NGO’s, Community Based Organizations (CBO’s) Potential Pitfalls: • <strong>Snow</strong> leopards inhabit remote, inaccessible areas with unpredictable weather and a short season, tourist health and wellbeing should be carefully considered • Political instability and health issues are a concern in many parts of snow leopard range and the tourist market is easily impacted by negative media image • Relatively low abundance of wildlife (compared to popular viewing destinations such as east Africa) and extreme unlikelihood of seeing snow leopard • Market saturation; all of snow leopard range can not be made a tourist destination • The financial benefits of tourism may not be equitably distributed leading to resentment and of lack of commitment to the conservation goals • May expose otherwise remote snow leopard area to international poachers 34 | SNOW LEOPARD SURVIVAL STRATEGY
Monitoring Protocols / Success Indicators: Biological: • Numbers, trends and productivity of wild ungulates • Density of snow leopard sign • Quality of pasture lands Socio-economic • Level of economic benefit from eco-tourism to local people • Local attitudes toward wildlife and tourists • Involvement of travel agents and other providers • Tourist awareness of local conservation issues Public Awareness: • Publicize examples of best practice conservation linked wildlife-tourism at policy making levels • Publicize examples of best practice conservation linked wildlife-tourism • Promote ecofriendly business partners • Publicize success indicators, both biological and socio-economic SNOW LEOPARD SURVIVAL STRATEGY | 35
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