The International Snow Leopard Trust

“The board of directors has an executive committee that has and may exercise all the authority of the board, but only between board meetings and only when the matter under discussion reasonably requires action by the board prior to the next scheduled board meeting. The executive committee has no authority to fill vacancies on the board; amend the articles of incorporation; adopt, amend or repeal the bylaws; or take any action directly contrary to any action previously taken by the board.”

“Gary podrabsky and gayle podrabsky have a family relationship.”

“The form 990 was reviewed by the executive director and the board's secretary - treasurer prior to filing. The filed form 990 will be shared with the entire governing body and disseminated at a regularly scheduled board meeting.”

“The executive director knows each board member and reviews all contracts entered into by the trust. Each contract is reviewed to ensure compliance with the conflict of interest policy.”

“There is a review committee that conducts the review and salary decision for the executive director. As part of the process the entire board is canvased on any salary recommendation for the ed made by the committee.”

“The snow leopard trust makes its governing documents, conflict of inerest policy and financial statements available upon request by scheduled appointment at our office during regular business hours.”

“Snow leopard conservation, policy and cooperation: we worked with close to 163 local communities (approximately 19600 families) to implement conservation programs that supported rural people with livelihood and conflict management, while securing their support to protect snow leopards, their prey and habitats. Our partner communities directly protected snow leopards over approximately 150,000 sq. Km (c. 57900 sq. Miles). Programs in community engagement included: collaboratively building 17 new predator proof corrals, managing a total of 113 corrals protecting thousands of livestock, training and livelihood improvement of local women through our handicrafts program in 42 communities (295 women, 8 men), supporting community-run livestock insurance programs against depredation by snow leopards in 34 communities (engaging 1064 households and covering at least 12000 livestock), running livestock vaccination programs in 38 valleys immunizing 200,000 livestock and initiating new dairy processing livelihood initiatives in 7 communities benefiting 78 women from herding families. We continued our work with the 12-snow leopard range country governments to promote snow leopard conservation and ensure better policies. We successfully completed the 5th steering meeting (first to be done virtually) of the global snow leopard and ecosystem protection program involving all governments. 125 participants also participated in the update meeting on our collaborative effort called population assessment of the world's snow leopards (paws). Our teams also completed two policy advisory documents made available to all snow leopard range countries, including one on how to manage individual snow leopards in conflict or other unusual situations.”

“Snow leopard research, monitoring and conservation capacity development: although not much field research was possible due to covid-19 pandemic, our scientific research was published in the form of 18 papers during the year in international peer reviewed journals in 2020. Our teams were nevertheless able to conduct camera-trap based snow leopard monitoring in 3 sites (in the trans-himalayas, the tien shan, and the gobi-altai). We were able to conduct wild prey (ungulate) surveys in two of them. In the hindukush, we were able to conduct prey surveys over 15000 sq. Km (nearly 6000 sq. Miles). Our teams were able to conduct multiple trainings largely using online platforms. 20 conservationists from 9 countries were trained in community-based conservation. 8 protection staff from a nature reserve were trained in protected area management. Nearly 50 conservationists from multiple countries received training in ungulate surveys. 38 participants received training in camera trapping and 21 participants from multiple countries received training in social science research.”

“The organization has not changed its oversight in this process.”