Today is the International Day of the Snow Leopard

23 October 2019, Wednesday

The start to this new holiday was laid by the irbis conservation forum, which was held in Bishkek in 2013. The habitat of a large predatory mammal of the cat family is the highlands of Central Asia. In addition to Russia, leopards are found in Afghanistan, Myanmar, Bhutan, China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Today, Tatarstan is studying the issues of studying the conservation of the snow leopard population.