Panthera Corporation

PANTHERA'S MISSION IS THE CONSERVATION OF THE WORLD'S 40 WILD CAT SPECIES.

LION - PANTHERA COMBINES AN UNDERSTANDING OF LION ECOLOGY IN HUMAN DOMINATED LANDSCAPES WITH TECHNIQUES THAT PROVIDE LOCAL COMMUNITIES WITH THE ABILITY AND INCENTIVE TO AVOID CONFLICT WITH LIONS. IN ADDITION, PANTHERA ALSO WORKS TO CURTAIL WIDESPREAD WIRE-SNARE POACHING, WHICH IS PERVASIVE IN MANY KEY LION LANDSCAPES, INCLUDING PROTECTED AREAS SUCH AS KAFUE NATIONAL PARK (ZAMBIA) AND NIOKOLO-KOBA NATIONAL PARK (SENEGAL).

CHEETAH - PANTHERA SEEKS TO PROTECT CHEETAHS BY ADDRESSING DIRECT THREATS TO THEM, THEIR PREY BASE AND THEIR HABITATS. TO DO THIS, PANTHERA GATHERS CRITICAL ECOLOGICAL DATA BY SURVEYING AND MONITORING POPULATIONS AND THEIR PREY, COLLABORATING WITH LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS AND PARTNERS, AND WORKING WITH LOCAL COMMUNITIES TO MITIGATE CONFLICT AND CREATE CHEETAH-POSITIVE AND SCAPES WITHIN COMMUNITIES.PANTHERA'S APPROACH TO PROTECTING CHEETAHS FOCUSES ON DEVELOPING AN INTEGRATED TRANSBOUNDARY PROGRAM BASED IN ZAMBIA, BUT OPERATING OVER THE 5-COUNTRY KAZA LANDSCAPE, WHICH IS THE LANDSCAPE IN THE KAVANGO AND ZAMBEZI RIVER BASINS, AND EVENTUALLY EXPANDING ACROSS THE CHEETAH'S AFRICAN RANGE. MIXED SPECIES LANDSCAPE WITH MULTIPLE CAT SPECIES BENEFITING FROM PANTHERA'S INTERVENTIONS.SNOW LEOPARD - PANTHERA DEVELOPED A STATE-OF-THE-ART GLOBAL RANGE MAP AND DATABASE OF SNOW LEOPARD HABITATS AND HELPS DELINEATE CRITICAL CONSERVATION UNITS AND IDENTIFY PREVAILING THREATS. USING THE DATABASE TO TARGET POPULATIONS THAT REQUIRE CONSERVATION, PANTHERA'S EFFORTS ARE GEARED TOWARDS A RANGE-WIDE APPROACH IN CONSERVING THE SNOW LEOPARDS.PUMA - PANTHERA IS WORKING TO BETTER UNDERSTAND AND PROTECT PUMAS IN THE WESTERN U.S. (NORTHWEST WYOMING, THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA AND OLYMPIC PENINSULA) AND IN THE TORRES DEL PAINE NATIONAL PARK REGION IN THE CHILEAN PATAGONIA. PANTHERA'S WORK INCLUDES STUDYING THE EFFECTS OF WOLF REINTRODUCTION AND HUMAN HUNTING ON PUMA POPULATIONS, UTILIZING INNOVATIVE CAMERA TECHNOLOGY TO OBSERVE THE SECRET SOCIAL LIVES OF PUMAS, CHARACTERIZING DISPERSAL DYNAMICS AND IMPEDIMENTS, AND MITIGATING HUMAN-PUMA CONFLICT. A RANGE-WIDE ASSESSMENT OF THE STATUS OF PUMAS, FROM PATAGONIA TO BRITISH COLUMBIA IS ALSO UNDERWAY.PANTHERA'S WORK INCLUDES STUDYING THE EFFECTS OF WOLF REINTRODUCTION AND HUMAN HUNTING ON PUMA POPULATIONS, UTILIZING INNOVATIVE CAMERA TECHNOLOGY TO OBSERVE THE SECRET SOCIAL LIVES OF PUMAS, CHARACTERIZING DISPERSAL DYNAMICS AND IMPEDIMENTS, AND MITIGATING HUMAN-PUMA CONFLICT. A RANGE-WIDE ASSESSMENT OF THE STATUS OF PUMAS, FROM PATAGONIA TO BRITISH COLUMBIA, IS ALSO UNDERWAY.SMALL CATS - PANTHERA ALSO WORKS TO UNDERSTAND AND CONSERVE THE 33 SPECIES OF SMALL WILD CATS. PRIORITIES FOR THIS PROGRAM ARE TO FOCUS ON THE LEAST UNDERSTOOD CATS, TO ENHANCE CURRENT DATA COLLECTION ON BIG CAT STUDY SITES TO GATHER SMALL CAT DATA, AND TO STRATEGICALLY ESTABLISH NEW SITES OF HIGH CONSERVATION VALUE FOR SMALL CATS. TECH - PANTHERA'S TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM DEVELOPED DEVICES AND SOFTWARE SUPPORTING SPECIES PROGRAMS, INCLUDING CAMERA TRAPS AND POACHERCAMS. PANTHERA INTEGRATES THIRD PARTY PRIVATE GSM (GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE) WIRELESS EQUIPMENT, AS WELL AS SYSTEMS TO MONITOR POACHERCAM DEPLOYMENTS.SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS - PANTHERA PROVIDES SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS TO POST-GRADUATE STUDENTS IN ADVANCED DEGREE PROGRAMS TO WORK ON RESEARCH AND PROJECTS IN THE CONSERVATION EFFORTS OF LARGE CAT SPECIES AND THEIR ENVIRONMENTS. PANTHERA, IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, DEVELOPED A GLOBAL FELID GENETIC DATABASE TO UNDERSTAND THE IMPACT OF LARGE SCALE GENETIC ISSUES IMPACTING FELIDS, AND NOW WORKS THROUGH THE NATIONAL GENOMICS CENTER FOR WILDLIFE AND FISH CONSERVATION IN MISSOULA, MONTANA, FOR MOST OF ITS GENETIC ANALYSIS NEEDS.THE INDIVIDUAL PROGRAMS ARE ESTABLISHED AND OVERSEEN BY TWO DIVISIONS: CONSERVATION SCIENCE AND CONSERVATION ACTION. CONSERVATION SCIENCE IS THE GROUP THAT EVALUATES, FROM A SCIENTIFIC BASIS, THE SCIENCE RESEARCH OUTCOMES AND HOW THEY WILL BE USED TO DEVELOP ACTIVITIES THAT INTEGRATE INTO CONSERVATION ACTION. THE CONSERVATION ACTION DIVISION CONTAINS PANTHERA'S GLOBAL AND REGIONAL FIELD PROGRAMS, ASSOCIATED PERSONNEL AND INFRASTRUCTURE TO IMPLEMENT THE CONSERVATION ACTION PLANS DEVELOPED BY THE CONSERVATION SCIENCE DIVISION.

LION - PANTHERA COMBINES AN UNDERSTANDING OF LION ECOLOGY IN HUMAN DOMINATED LANDSCAPES WITH TECHNIQUES THAT PROVIDE LOCAL COMMUNITIES WITH THE ABILITY AND INCENTIVE TO AVOID CONFLICT WITH LIONS. IN ADDITION, PANTHERA ALSO WORKS TO CURTAIL WIDESPREAD WIRE-SNARE POACHING, WHICH IS PERVASIVE IN MANY KEY LION LANDSCAPES, INCLUDING PROTECTED AREAS SUCH AS KAFUE NATIONAL PARK (ZAMBIA) AND NIOKOLO-KOBA NATIONAL PARK (SENEGAL).

CHEETAH - PANTHERA SEEKS TO PROTECT CHEETAHS BY ADDRESSING DIRECT THREATS TO THEM, THEIR PREY BASE AND THEIR HABITATS. TO DO THIS, PANTHERA GATHERS CRITICAL ECOLOGICAL DATA BY SURVEYING AND MONITORING POPULATIONS AND THEIR PREY, COLLABORATING WITH LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS AND PARTNERS, AND WORKING WITH LOCAL COMMUNITIES TO MITIGATE CONFLICT AND CREATE CHEETAH-POSITIVE AND SCAPES WITHIN COMMUNITIES.PANTHERA'S APPROACH TO PROTECTING CHEETAHS FOCUSES ON DEVELOPING AN INTEGRATED TRANSBOUNDARY PROGRAM BASED IN ZAMBIA, BUT OPERATING OVER THE 5-COUNTRY KAZA LANDSCAPE, WHICH IS THE LANDSCAPE IN THE KAVANGO AND ZAMBEZI RIVER BASINS, AND EVENTUALLY EXPANDING ACROSS THE CHEETAH'S AFRICAN RANGE. MIXED SPECIES LANDSCAPE WITH MULTIPLE CAT SPECIES BENEFITING FROM PANTHERA'S INTERVENTIONS.SNOW LEOPARD - PANTHERA DEVELOPED A STATE-OF-THE-ART GLOBAL RANGE MAP AND DATABASE OF SNOW LEOPARD HABITATS AND HELPS DELINEATE CRITICAL CONSERVATION UNITS AND IDENTIFY PREVAILING THREATS. USING THE DATABASE TO TARGET POPULATIONS THAT REQUIRE CONSERVATION, PANTHERA'S EFFORTS ARE GEARED TOWARDS A RANGE-WIDE APPROACH IN CONSERVING THE SNOW LEOPARDS.PUMA - PANTHERA IS WORKING TO BETTER UNDERSTAND AND PROTECT PUMAS IN THE WESTERN U.S. (NORTHWEST WYOMING, THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA AND OLYMPIC PENINSULA) AND IN THE TORRES DEL PAINE NATIONAL PARK REGION IN THE CHILEAN PATAGONIA. PANTHERA'S WORK INCLUDES STUDYING THE EFFECTS OF WOLF REINTRODUCTION AND HUMAN HUNTING ON PUMA POPULATIONS, UTILIZING INNOVATIVE CAMERA TECHNOLOGY TO OBSERVE THE SECRET SOCIAL LIVES OF PUMAS, CHARACTERIZING DISPERSAL DYNAMICS AND IMPEDIMENTS, AND MITIGATING HUMAN-PUMA CONFLICT. A RANGE-WIDE ASSESSMENT OF THE STATUS OF PUMAS, FROM PATAGONIA TO BRITISH COLUMBIA IS ALSO UNDERWAY.PANTHERA'S WORK INCLUDES STUDYING THE EFFECTS OF WOLF REINTRODUCTION AND HUMAN HUNTING ON PUMA POPULATIONS, UTILIZING INNOVATIVE CAMERA TECHNOLOGY TO OBSERVE THE SECRET SOCIAL LIVES OF PUMAS, CHARACTERIZING DISPERSAL DYNAMICS AND IMPEDIMENTS, AND MITIGATING HUMAN-PUMA CONFLICT. A RANGE-WIDE ASSESSMENT OF THE STATUS OF PUMAS, FROM PATAGONIA TO BRITISH COLUMBIA, IS ALSO UNDERWAY.SMALL CATS - PANTHERA ALSO WORKS TO UNDERSTAND AND CONSERVE THE 33 SPECIES OF SMALL WILD CATS. PRIORITIES FOR THIS PROGRAM ARE TO FOCUS ON THE LEAST UNDERSTOOD CATS, TO ENHANCE CURRENT DATA COLLECTION ON BIG CAT STUDY SITES TO GATHER SMALL CAT DATA, AND TO STRATEGICALLY ESTABLISH NEW SITES OF HIGH CONSERVATION VALUE FOR SMALL CATS. TECH - PANTHERA'S TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM DEVELOPED DEVICES AND SOFTWARE SUPPORTING SPECIES PROGRAMS, INCLUDING CAMERA TRAPS AND POACHERCAMS. PANTHERA INTEGRATES THIRD PARTY PRIVATE GSM (GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE) WIRELESS EQUIPMENT, AS WELL AS SYSTEMS TO MONITOR POACHERCAM DEPLOYMENTS.SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS - PANTHERA PROVIDES SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS TO POST-GRADUATE STUDENTS IN ADVANCED DEGREE PROGRAMS TO WORK ON RESEARCH AND PROJECTS IN THE CONSERVATION EFFORTS OF LARGE CAT SPECIES AND THEIR ENVIRONMENTS. PANTHERA, IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, DEVELOPED A GLOBAL FELID GENETIC DATABASE TO UNDERSTAND THE IMPACT OF LARGE SCALE GENETIC ISSUES IMPACTING FELIDS, AND NOW WORKS THROUGH THE NATIONAL GENOMICS CENTER FOR WILDLIFE AND FISH CONSERVATION IN MISSOULA, MONTANA, FOR MOST OF ITS GENETIC ANALYSIS NEEDS.THE INDIVIDUAL PROGRAMS ARE ESTABLISHED AND OVERSEEN BY TWO DIVISIONS: CONSERVATION SCIENCE AND CONSERVATION ACTION. CONSERVATION SCIENCE IS THE GROUP THAT EVALUATES, FROM A SCIENTIFIC BASIS, THE SCIENCE RESEARCH OUTCOMES AND HOW THEY WILL BE USED TO DEVELOP ACTIVITIES THAT INTEGRATE INTO CONSERVATION ACTION. THE CONSERVATION ACTION DIVISION CONTAINS PANTHERA'S GLOBAL AND REGIONAL FIELD PROGRAMS, ASSOCIATED PERSONNEL AND INFRASTRUCTURE TO IMPLEMENT THE CONSERVATION ACTION PLANS DEVELOPED BY THE CONSERVATION SCIENCE DIVISION.

JAGUAR - PANTHERA UTILIZES A RANGE-WIDE APPROACH FOCUSING ON THE KEY POPULATIONS AND INTERVENING GENETIC CORRIDORS. PANTHERA WORKS CLOSELY WITH RANCHERS AND OTHER RURAL COMMUNITIES TO DEVELOP COEXISTENCE STRATEGIES THAT CAN BE DEPLOYED AT LARGE SPATIAL SCALES, ESPECIALLY WITH RESPECT TO COSTA RICA, HONDURAS, COLOMBIA AND BRAZIL.

JAGUAR - PANTHERA UTILIZES A RANGE-WIDE APPROACH FOCUSING ON THE KEY POPULATIONS AND INTERVENING GENETIC CORRIDORS. PANTHERA WORKS CLOSELY WITH RANCHERS AND OTHER RURAL COMMUNITIES TO DEVELOP COEXISTENCE STRATEGIES THAT CAN BE DEPLOYED AT LARGE SPATIAL SCALES, ESPECIALLY WITH RESPECT TO COSTA RICA, HONDURAS, COLOMBIA AND BRAZIL.

TIGER - PANTHERA, THROUGH VARIOUS INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS, SEEKS TO INCREASE WILD TIGER POPULATIONS BY AT LEAST 50% ACROSS KEY SITES OVER THE NEXT DECADE. IN ADDITION, PANTHERA IDENTIFIES AND CREATES SAFE CORRIDORS FOR THE SPECIES TO MOVE BETWEEN CORE POPULATIONS.

TIGER - PANTHERA, THROUGH VARIOUS INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS, SEEKS TO INCREASE WILD TIGER POPULATIONS BY AT LEAST 50% ACROSS KEY SITES OVER THE NEXT DECADE. IN ADDITION, PANTHERA IDENTIFIES AND CREATES SAFE CORRIDORS FOR THE SPECIES TO MOVE BETWEEN CORE POPULATIONS.