[HC] Snow Leopards Flourish In Afghanistan

The war torn country is home to a vigorous population of snow leopards.  The World Conservation Society recently laid a number of camera traps in the Wakhan Corridor.  This mountainous area is a long panhandle in the north east of the country and the camera traps captured snow leopards on film in sixteen places.

Panthera uncial is considered one of the most endangered of the big cats.  Their numbers have fallen by twenty percent over the last twenty years.
More info at: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110713121430.htm

Camera trap pictures at: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/07/pictures/110718-snow-leopard-population-rebounding-afghanistan/

More pictures of snow leopards (most of them taken in a zoo) at: http://www.arkinspace.com/2011/07/snow-leopards-discovered-flourishing-in.html