Time for a little breather! It’s been quite a year – the Cape Leopard Trust team is following the lead of this relaxed klipspringer and taking a year-end break until mid-January 2025. Wishing you all a happy, peaceful and healthy holiday! Have a look at what kept us busy this year – bit.ly/CLT2024IR (pdf size 13MB, best viewed on a computer or tablet) #FestiveGreeting #CLTthrowbackpic
Cape Leopard Trust
Non-profit Organizations
Working to ensure continued survival of leopards, their prey & their habitat through research, conservation & education
About us
The leopard is the last big predator to still roam free in the Western Cape, South Africa. The species faces multiple threats, including limited and fragmented habitat, reduction in prey numbers and high levels of conflict with people. The Cape Leopard Trust (CLT, established 2004) is a non-governmental, non-profit, public benefit organisation that aims to facilitate and promote the conservation of biological diversity, with a focus on the leopard as a flagship species. The CLT consists of a small, highly dedicated and enthusiastic team, spread across a number of project areas, and for the past 15 years they have been working to ensure the long-term survival of leopard populations for the benefit of nature and society. The CLT uses a combination of rigorous scientific research, applied conservation, and environmental education and outreach to better understand leopards, inform management policies, mitigate human-leopard conflict, promote biodiversity conservation and habitat connectivity, uplift and upskill community members living in leopard areas, and inspire the next generation to become conservation ambassadors.
- Website
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http://www.capeleopard.org.za
External link for Cape Leopard Trust
- Industry
- Non-profit Organizations
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Cape Town
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2004
Locations
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Primary
Cape Town, ZA
Employees at Cape Leopard Trust
Updates
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Holiday #CallToAction ~ 𝗪𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 & 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻? If you are spending time in nature anywhere in the Western, Eastern or Northern Cape this festive season, please keep your eyes peeled for any field sign of leopards (like spoor, droppings, scratch marks on trees) and any potential threats to leopards (like snares and traps). Record your observations with a photo and location pin and submit these records to our Cape Leopard Trust online database at app.capeleopard.org.za. Your data can help us identify suitable leopard habitat and predict leopard movement corridors in the Cape region. If you discover a 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗹 caught in a snare in the Western Cape, call the Snare Free hotline for assistance on 𝟬𝟳𝟲 𝟭𝟮𝟳 𝟴𝟰𝟴𝟱. Go to snarefree.co.za for more. #LeopardResearch #LeopardConservation #CitizenScience #SnareFree #SnareFreeWesternCape
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Today is #InternationalMountainDay, and what better way to celebrate than with a photo of a leopard on a mountain! 😉 The greater Cape region is known for its spectacular mountainscapes, home to a huge array of plant, insect, bird and mammal species – although many people hardly ever notice the animals because they are cryptic, elusive and nocturnal. Perhaps the most elusive of them all is the leopard, the apex predator in this system – a ‘ghost cat’ that has found safe refuge in the rugged mountains of the Cape for millennia. Learn more about what the Cape Leopard Trust is doing to research and conserve these magnificent animals and their habitats – find our downloadable 2024 showcase report at bit.ly/CLT2024IR (size 13MB, best viewed on computer or tablet) #InternationalMountainDay2024 #IMD2024 #MountainDay #mountainsmatter #capemountains #mountainwildlife #mountainwilderness
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The Cape Leopard Trust is proud to share our 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 – not a dense, text-heavy edition, but a visual showcase of our latest projects, activities and achievements 🐆🐾 As we approach the end of another busy year, we want to take this opportunity to thank you – our friends, funders, donors, sponsors and partners – for your loyal support. As a small environmental NGO, navigating this complex landscape can be challenging, and the obstacles to biodiversity conservation can at times seem overwhelming. However, while major challenges will always lie ahead, it is important to celebrate the successes, and we thank you all for helping us make them possible. Find the downloadable pdf at bit.ly/CLT2024IR (size 13MB, best viewed on computer or tablet) #WildlifeWednesday #LeopardConservation
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Over the past several months, the Cape Leopard Trust Education team has been developing our new virtual reality (VR) project, with funding support from The Royal Commission for AlUla. This immersive experience is specifically focused on differently-abled learners and learners who never get the opportunity to explore and experience our incredible protected areas and heritage sites. In 2025 we’ll be bringing the wonders of the natural world to classrooms where learners will explore sandstone caves with ancient San & Khoi rock art, meet a leopard in its natural habitat, and experience the incredible fynbos biome, all in a safe, controlled environment. Designed to inspire, educate, and promote inclusivity, this pioneering project connects learners to nature, inspiring curiosity, appreciation, and a passion for protecting our planet. While it remains our top priority to teach children about nature in nature, VR introduces a new world of possibilities for environmental education and offers an innovative way to get children interested in the natural world. #TeachingTuesday #EnvironmentalEducation #VirtualReality
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The Cape Leopard Trust was fortunate to have one of our own participate in the recent Earthshot Prize Youth Leadership Programme: Africa. CLT Research & Conservation Field Officer Matthew Arendse joined climate youth leaders from across Africa and Asia in the youth leadership programme – four days of masterclasses, discussion panels, workshops and keynotes, all set against the backdrop of the Earthshot week of activities and events. The youth leaders had the opportunity to meet and interact with The Earthshot Prize 2024 finalists and attend the prestigious awards ceremony. Matthew was particularly inspired by the Earthshot Prize category ‘Protect and Restore Nature’. He hopes take the valuable lessons learned and connections made at the youth leadership programme into his work at the CLT and continue to play a part in the protection and restoration of the biodiversity of the Western Cape – home to the leopards of the Cape! #MotivationMonday #WhatIsYourEarthshot #ThisIsMyEarthShot #TheEarthShotPrize2024
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The Cape Leopard Trust #Mobikraal project has been working closely with five test sites across southern Africa where prototypes of our design for an affordable, mobile and predator-proof kraal will be rigorously tested in 2025. Our pre-monitoring camera traps have spotted a wide array of species roaming around the farms, providing important baseline information. We look forward to the next phase of the project when the innovative design will be put through its paces, hopefully resulting in an effective, useful tool for predator-livestock conflict mitigation that will benefit communities globally. We would like to sincerely thank the test farms, partners and funders for their support in 2024. Mobi-kraal is supported by The Royal Commission for AlUla, Hans Hoheisen Charitable Trust, Van Tienhoven Foundation, Oppenheimer Generations Research & Conservation and Spoor & Fisher along with facilitating partners Shangani Holistic Ranch and Primate and Predator Project.
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Leopard camera trap photos are always exciting, but every once in a while we get absolutely cracker images that gives us goosebumps! This sequence from our recent Cape Leopard Trust Piketberg survey is a perfect example 🐆😻 Leopard mating is known to be an energetic, feisty and sometimes drawn-out affair. This pair of cats first arrived on the scene at 20h36, and what followed was a series of photos showing the two intermittently circling each other, laying down and mating, more circling, snarling, hissing and even some aerial manoeuvres, with the last images only taken at 22h13! How wonderfully exhilarating to catch this behaviour on camera and learn more about the secret lives of these elusive big cats – and a perfect post to celebrate World #WildlifeConservationDay 🐾 #WildlifeWednesday #CamTrapChronicles #CLTcreaturefeature #leopard #pantherapardus
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Calling our international supporters this #GivingTuesday! 🐆🐾 Conservation Allies is hosting an end-of-year fundraising matching campaign, where all donations made to Conservation Allies partners will be DOUBLED through December 31, 2024! As one of these partners, the Cape Leopard Trust could benefit greatly from this campaign. Please go to our institutional donation page https://lnkd.in/dv_PaCKv and click on the orange 𝗗𝗼𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝗟𝗧 button on the left of the page. 100% of your donation comes to us! 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘺 𝘨𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘺: 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘈𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩 𝘶𝘱 𝘵𝘰 $5000 𝘰𝘧 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦. 𝘖𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 $2000 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘥. 𝘋𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘷𝘪𝘢 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘱𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘈𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴’ 𝘸𝘦𝘣𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘦.
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Getting ready to launch into the weekend like this dassie 😆 Lil’ guy clearly did not want to get his paws wet 🐾 📸Caught on Cape Leopard Trust camera trap in the Piketberg Happy weekend all! #FridayFeelgood #FridayFunny #FunnyAnimals #CamTrapChronicles