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According to the UN Environment Programme, 20 per cent of the world's animal species will disappear by 2050.

One of those on the endangered list is the majestic snow leopard.

The elusive big cats have been hunted almost to extinction for their pelts and for their body parts for use in Chinese medicine.

In 2004, just six wild cats remained in Ladakh, northern India in the remote Indian Himalaya. But now conservationists are educating local villagers to help protect snow leopards.

In this edition of 101 East, we follow a conservation programme that could be a template for saving big cats around the world.

This episode of 101 East can be seen from Thursday, September 3, 2009 at the following times GMT: Thursday: 1230; Friday: 0300; Saturday: 0530, 1730; Sunday: 0330, 1130; Monday: 1630; Tuesday: 1430; Wednesday: 0830, 1930; Thursday: 0630.