{"id":7337,"date":"2026-05-12T09:33:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/reporter\/?page_id=7337"},"modified":"2026-05-12T09:33:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:33:31","slug":"safeguards-for-snow-leopards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/reporter\/fall-2021\/along-the-walk\/safeguards-for-snow-leopards\/","title":{"rendered":"Safeguards for Snow Leopards"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7341\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7341\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7341 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/reporter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2026\/05\/hussain-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/reporter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2026\/05\/hussain-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/reporter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2026\/05\/hussain.jpg 307w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7341\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shafqat Hussain, George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian Studies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For more than 20 years, Shafqat Hussain, George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian Studies,\u00a0has dedicated his work to protecting the snow leopard species in Northern Pakistan. In 1999, Hussain created an insurance plan that provides economic incentives to regional farmers; the insurance safeguards snow leopards,\u00a0one of the world\u2019s most endangered species,\u00a0from being killed in response to an attack on a farmer\u2019s herd.<\/p>\n<p>Project Snow Leopard, launched in Hussain\u2019s home country, promotes the coexistence of humans and snow leopards. The project has three goals:\u00a0to create compensation for farmers, reducing economic loss; to construct predator-proof corrals for farmers; and to monitor the snow leopard\u2019s population through genetic analysis and camera trapping.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7343\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7343\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7343\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/reporter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2026\/05\/Hushe-Pug-Marks-225x300-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7343\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pugmark of a snow leopard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 2006, with the help of a grant provided by the Rolex Awards for Enterprise, Hussain\u2014a trained economist and environmental anthropologist\u2014expanded the project to 10 additional valleys across Baltistan, impacting approximately 15,000 people. Today, the insurance plan has been adopted in India, Nepal, Bhutan, Afghanistan, and China. Through Hussain and his team\u2019s work, the snow leopard population is now stable.<\/p>\n<p>Hussain\u2019s efforts have won numerous other awards, including the United Nations Equator Prize. In 2009, he was named a National Geographic Emerging Explorer.<\/p>\n<p>Watch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolex.org\/rolex-awards\/milestones\/environment\/shafqat-hussain\">a video on Project Snow Leopard and on Hussain<\/a>, a Rolex Awards Laureate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For more than 20 years, Shafqat Hussain, George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian Studies,\u00a0has dedicated his work to protecting the snow leopard species in Northern Pakistan. In 1999, Hussain created an insurance plan that provides economic incentives to regional farmers; the insurance safeguards snow leopards,\u00a0one of the world\u2019s most endangered species,\u00a0from being killed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"parent":7213,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7337","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.5 (Yoast SEO v25.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Safeguards for Snow Leopards - The Trinity Reporter<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/reporter\/fall-2021\/along-the-walk\/safeguards-for-snow-leopards\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Safeguards for Snow Leopards\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"For more than 20 years, Shafqat Hussain, George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian Studies,\u00a0has dedicated his work to protecting the snow leopard species in Northern Pakistan. 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