Festival Tails has donated £500 to Panthera, a prominent big cat conversation organisation.

Panthera was founded in 2006 with the sole mission of conserving the world’s 36 species of wild cats; it currently focuses its global conservation strategies on the world’s largest, most imperilled cats – tigers, lions, jaguars and snow leopards.

Festival Tails is a small UK specialist clothing enterprise that have created a range of unique clip-on faux-fur animal tails that add a splash of colour and fun to festival and party attire. In 2011 Festival Tails aimed to raise awareness of the Panthera cause at various UK festivals by creating and selling a special edition Panthera Snow Leopard tail.

Festival Tails’ Mary Jephcott said, ‘We love being associated with the Panthera charity and set out to do our bit by raising some funds to support them in their mission to ensure the future of the snow leopard. The Panthera Snow Leopard tail was developed in partnership with the charity to ensure maximum authenticity’ Festival goers supported the idea, resulting in many snow leopard tails being swung in UK festival fields throughout the summer.

The money has gone directly to Panthera’s snow leopard conservation project in Mongolia. Seldom observed in the wild, or at best a fleeting apparition, snow leopards have appropriately earned the title ‘Ghost of the mountains’. Sadly, as few as 3,500 to 7,000 snow leopards remain in the wild and they are listed as “Endangered” on the list of threatened species.

You too can help the Panthera cause by purchasing one of the few remaining limited special edition Panthera Snow Leopard Tails direct from the Festival Tails website by visiting this link: http://festivaltails.com/shop/category/special-tails £5.00 from the sale of each tail will go to Panthera.