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International Snow Leopard Day: Journey Through Kazakhstan’s Quest to Save ‘Mountain Ghost’

By Aibarshyn Akhmetkali on 23 October 2024

ASTANA – On International Snow Leopard Day, marked on Oct. 23, The Astana Times explores Kazakhstan’s journey to preserve snow leopards, one of the world’s rarest mammals often referred to as “ghost of the mountains.” In the remote high-altitude expanses of the Dzhungar Alatau mountains, camera traps are shedding...