The International Snow Leopard Foundation (Snow The Snow Leopard Trust, the world's largest and earliest international organization for snow leopard conservation, was founded by Helen Elaine Freeman in Seattle in 1981. The organization aims to protect existing snow leopards and their habitat, as well as to help people living in snow leopard habitat. Currently, the Snow Leopard Foundation operates primarily in China, India, Mongolia, Pakistan and Kyrgyzstan, countries where snow leopards are present.