A meeting of the working group on the snow leopard conservation took place in Moscow

16 March 2020, Monday

Airat Shigapov, Deputy Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, took part in the meeting of the Working Group on conservation of snow leopard.

The issues of changing the concept of the project within the framework of the federal program “Preservation of Biological Diversity and Development of Ecological Tourism” were discussed there. Let us recall that Tatarstan specialists, together with academics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, propose creating the “Center for Study of Rare Species of Cats “Ak Bars” in the republic instead of the federal project “Center for Breeding a Snow Leopard” provided for by a passport.