LOLC’s Livestock Insurance promotes Human-Leopard coexistence

T he Sri Lankan Leopard (Panthera pardus kotiya), endemic to the island and with fewer than 1,000 mature individuals remaining in the wild, faces a precarious future as it struggles against habitat loss, prey depletion, snares, and retaliation killings.

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As a keystone species and a vital contributor to Sri Lanka’s ecosystems, ecotourism, and national economy, its survival is of immense importance.

However, human-leopard conflict continues to pose one of the greatest threats, with predation on unattended livestock and pets often leading to retaliatory killings, an instinctive act of protection by rural communities, but one that tragically diminishes the nation’s most iconic wildlife.

To break this cycle, LOLC Holdings, together with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Sri Lanka’s Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN) and the Wildlife and Nature Protection Society of Sri Lanka (WNPS), under the guidance of the Department of Wildlife Conservation, has introduced a pioneering Livestock Insurance Scheme through LOLC General Insurane: