AST South Africa: Proud Sponsors of the 2010 Leopard Census
[Johannesburg, 13 August 2010] -
AST South Africa adopted the Leopard Conservation Project as their leading “cause” in Southern Africa in 2009.Conservation has always been a priority for the staff of AST South Africa and the Leopard Conservation Project has become not only a corporate, but a personal goal for the staff helping to support the project.What is the Leopard Conservation Project? The Leopard Conservation Project, established in 2000, was registered as a non-profit, section 21 company in 2007. The primary focus of the project has been to protect leopards from poaching, poisoning, trapping and being over-hunted. In recent years however, the focus has shifted to include the collection of population data and territory size as well as information on the genetic relationship and diversity of the leopard community within different regions of the country.
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