Conservation
The vanishing ghost
For two million years the snow leopard has walked the high spine of Asia, so rarely seen that the people who share its mountains call it the ghost. Now the ghost is fading, and most of us will never know what we lost.
Keep scrolling. This is how quietly a species disappears.
What remains
- As few as
0
snow leopards remain in the wild
- Scattered across
0
countries along the high spine of Asia
- At home up to
0
metres above the sea
Three ways a ghost disappears
The pelt and the trap
Poachers take leopards for skins and bones, and herders set traps when a leopard, short of wild prey, turns to their flocks. Most killings are never recorded. A ghost leaves no body of evidence.
The shrinking range
Mines, roads and new pasture push higher every year. The wild sheep and ibex the leopard hunts are crowded off the slopes, and a hungry cat follows them down into danger.
The rising snowline
A warming climate drives the treeline up the mountain, squeezing the leopard's cold country onto the summits. There is no higher mountain for it to climb.
With the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation
Bringing the ghost back
Snow Leopard Gin works in partnership with the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation, operating across Africa and Asia to end wildlife crime and protect endangered species in their natural habitat.
We pledge a donation of £500 from the sale of each bottle: every bottle helps keep the ghost on its own mountain.
Drink to the ghost
A limited edition conservation art gin. £500 from the sale of each bottle goes to the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation's work to keep the ghost of the mountain wild.
