Capacity Building Workshop Climate - Smart Snow Leopard Landscape Management Planning 20-23 April 2016 And Capacity Building Workshop for Snow Leopard Landscape Mapping 25-27 April 2016 Hotel Tibet International, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal Government of Nepal& Global Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Protection Program Partners: MEETING REPORT

The Global Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Protection Program (GSLEP) conducted a two-part workshop in Kathmandu from 20-27 April 2016. The first part focused on 'climate-smart' landscape management planning using the 'Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation' framework, integrating climate scenarios to identify threats and prioritize strategies. The second part focused on coordinating geospatial mapping across the snow leopard range, establishing standardized definitions for habitat and climate refugia, and developing data-sharing protocols. Participants from nine range countries worked on templates and GIS shapefiles to support the GSLEP goal of securing 20 landscapes by 2020.

• The GSLEP program aims to secure at least 20 snow leopard landscapes by the year 2020, with current efforts focused on the management planning phase to create landscape-specific blueprints.
• Practitioners used the 'Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation' framework to develop management plans that integrate both conventional threats and climate change impacts.
• Climate change is identified as a critical factor in conservation planning for the high mountains of Asia, as it can exacerbate existing threats such as poaching, retaliatory killing, and overgrazing.
• The workshop established a standardized approach to mapping, including agreed-upon definitions for snow leopard habitat, corridors, bottlenecks, and climate-resilient areas such as refugia.
• Participants agreed to collaborate with the WWF Asia’s High Mountains Project GIS mapping team to develop maps for six specific countries: Bhutan, India, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Nepal, and Pakistan.
• To define exact landscape outlines, participants decided to use local district boundaries along international borders and assess larger subwatersheds outside landscape borders where relevant.

APA

WWF International (2016). Capacity Building Workshop Climate - Smart Snow Leopard Landscape Management Planning 20-23 April 2016 And Capacity Building Workshop for Snow Leopard Landscape Mapping 25-27 April 2016 Hotel Tibet International, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal Government of Nepal& Global Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Protection Program Partners: MEETING REPORT. https://www.worldwildlife.org/documents/886/9skcraqs76_Kathmandu_GSLEP_Workshop_Final_Report_2016.07.29.pdf

Chicago

WWF International. Capacity Building Workshop Climate - Smart Snow Leopard Landscape Management Planning 20-23 April 2016 And Capacity Building Workshop for Snow Leopard Landscape Mapping 25-27 April 2016 Hotel Tibet International, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal Government of Nepal& Global Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Protection Program Partners: MEETING REPORT. 2016. https://www.worldwildlife.org/documents/886/9skcraqs76_Kathmandu_GSLEP_Workshop_Final_Report_2016.07.29.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{wwfinternational2016capacity, author = {{WWF International}}, title = {{Capacity Building Workshop Climate - Smart Snow Leopard Landscape Management Planning 20-23 April 2016 And Capacity Building Workshop for Snow Leopard Landscape Mapping 25-27 April 2016 Hotel Tibet International, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal Government of Nepal\& Global Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Protection Program Partners: MEETING REPORT}}, institution = {WWF International}, year = {2016}, url = {https://www.worldwildlife.org/documents/886/9skcraqs76_Kathmandu_GSLEP_Workshop_Final_Report_2016.07.29.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }