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How does The Red Panda Project save red pandas?

The Red Panda Project saves wild red pandas and preserves their habitat through the empowerment of local communities by adaptive community-based:

1. Research
2. Education
3. Sustainable Development

For example, in eastern Nepal, based on our initial consultations with the local villagers, we created the world’s first community-based monitoring of a red panda population called Project Punde Kundo. In this program we have employed local villagers to monitor their community forests and educate their community forest users about red panda and asked them what they needed in order to preserve their forests. With our other non-profit partners we then support the management and creation of community-based organizations that fulfill theses needs. To date we have supported medicinal plant growing, livestock management and improved breeds and reforestation efforts. We have also promoted local products such as organic tea. Our long-term goal is that community capacity will be reached that we are no longer needed and that the community-based organizations will be run on their own.

In order to run these organizations, we have taken 95% of your donations and sent them to Nepal to manage these activities. The other 5% has been used to support our administrative costs in the United States. None of our staff in the US makes a salary, we are all volunteers. We thank you for your support in enabling us to make a difference for red panda and the people of eastern Nepal.

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