Killed over livestock
Leopards take goats and calves, and retaliation accounts for more leopard deaths than any other single cause.
Your symbolic adoption supports the Wildlife Connect Leopard Fund, which provides funding to vetted organizations working to protect leopards and their habitats.
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| Item | $25 | $50 | $100 | $250 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold plated 2026 ornamentFree through December 20th, 2026 | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Personalized adoption certificate | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Collectible species cardFront and back | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| 8" plush | Not included | Included | Not included | Not included |
| 12" plush | Not included | Not included | Included | Included |
| Wildlife Connect tote | Not included | Not included | Not included | Included |
The leopard is the most adaptable big cat alive and the one most often killed for being nearby. Behind the ones still hunting wild country is a particular kind of work: livestock enclosures that actually hold, compensation that makes a lost goat survivable for a herder, snare sweeps, and the camera surveys that tell anyone how many cats are left.
A symbolic adoption connects you directly to it.
Your adoption helps support the organizations protecting leopards and the ground they share with people. Coexistence work has a track record, and reinforced enclosures have cut retaliatory killing sharply wherever they have been funded properly. The species is still Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, and the Amur leopard of the Russian Far East and northeast China is Critically Endangered, with a wild population in the low hundreds.
And your adoption gives you something to hold onto, too.
You'll receive a personalized adoption certificate and a collectible, numbered species card that tells the story of the animal you're helping protect. At higher adoption levels, you'll also receive a leopard plush: a small, tangible reminder of something much bigger.
Because the best gifts don't disappear when they're opened. They spark curiosity. They start conversations. They remind us that a leopard lying along a branch at dusk is part of our world, too. Its future is something all of us can help protect.
Adopt a leopard. Help protect its territory. Become part of its story.
Population trend: decreasing. The leopard is Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, and the Amur leopard is Critically Endangered with a wild population in the low hundreds.
Leopards take goats and calves, and retaliation accounts for more leopard deaths than any other single cause.
Leopards are killed for their skins and for bones sold as a substitute for tiger in traditional medicine.
Leopards live closer to people than any other big cat, but the land they hunt over keeps shrinking around them.
Snaring for bushmeat removes the antelope and deer leopards live on, even inside protected areas.
Funds from our leopard adoptions go to the Wildlife Connect Leopard Fund, which supports vetted wildlife sanctuaries and conservation organizations working to protect leopards, their habitats, and the many species that live alongside them.
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