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Snow leopard cub photographed in Afghanistan

03/01/2012 16:44:25
world/Asia/Asia july 10/snow_leopard_cub_wcs

A snow leopard with her cub recently photographed from a craggy peak in Afghanistan by the Wildlife Conservation Society.

January 2012. Photographing snow leopards with remote cameras in Afghanistan is hard enough, but snapping a picture of a mother and cub is nearly impossible.

Which is why a team of conservationists from the  Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) was delighted to take this recent image from a craggy peak in Afghanistan's Sarkund Valley. This is the first image of a mother and cub taken since WCS began work in the region. WCS has been conserving wildlife and improving local livelihoods in Afghanistan since 2006 with support from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

 

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its awesome to see them thriving!!good way to start the New Year!!

Posted by: abby | 21 Jan 2012 02:22:21

Snow leopards

Nice to start the New Year with some good news. I hope it survives to grow to adulthood.

Posted by: Andrea Polden | 07 Jan 2012 17:50:02

Happy New Year!!!

Always good news to see snow leopard roaming wild....What a great start of 2012!!!!

Posted by: Mirko Macinai | 05 Jan 2012 22:26:56

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