Mount Ceder Social & Environment Initiatives

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Social & Environment Initiatives

The Cape Leopard Trust

The Cape Leopard Trust aims to optimally facilitate conservation of the Cape's predator diversity through simultaneously implementing conservation strategies, research projects and tourism initiatives. It will also educate and encourage the youth of disadvantaged communities to have a vested interest in the environment

Why The Leopard?

The leopard fills the role of the apex predator in the Western Cape ecosystem and acts as an “umbrella species” which will effectively help in the conservation of smaller, lower profile predators.

Its resilience to persecution notwithstanding, the leopard has suffered extensive range loss in the Cape and is now extinct in many areas of the province where it formerly occurred. The species is routinely and regularly removed from farms with little knowledge of population or genetic status, whether removals are sustainable or whether the factors giving rise to conflict are established. Today, the long-term persistence of leopard populations pivots on their densities within protected areas. Reliable population estimates of large carnivores are, therefore, essential for effective conservation management.