Rangers are forces on the front-line of leopard conservation; they dedicate themselves to protecting the mountains’ most beautiful and vulnerable species. Working under poor working conditions, they are usually needed to spend days away from their families in basic ranger posts.
In Tandoureh National Park, where the world’s largest population of Persian leopards exists, one of the ranger posts lacks proper supplies of electricity. The resident rangers rely on a small generator, which is fuelled with petrol. As enhancing working conditions can directly benefit anti-poaching performance of rangers, the Future4Leopards Foundation prioritized establishing a permanent electricity supply for this ranger post.
Thanks to our recent satellite tracking of Persian leopards in Tandoureh, we were able to pitch the idea publicly through online crowd funding platforms. Our goal was to create a solar-supplied electricity platform for the ranger station. On the last week of December, just days before the end of 2018, the solar panels were installed and the electricity is continuously provided for rangers.