Every month, WCS receives numerous letters from the local communities along the Wakhan Corridor, asking WCS for their help following incidents of predation. In remote, subsistence communities such as those in Wakhan, a family’s whole economic security is centered around their livestock which are used for cropping, transportation, trade and for their meat and skins. However, when predators such as wolves and snow leopards lose significant parts of their habitat and prey, they are left with little choice but to predate on a village’s domestic stock, and this can devastate the income of whole families and the larger community.