Lord of the Mountains

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Lord of the Mountains

July 3, 2019

This graceful, beauliful and very rare, wild cat is the national 1reasure of the counlry, the property of all mankind. The image of the snow leopard is usually used as a widely known symbol in information malerials about 1he Kyrgyz Republic and a number of other counlries. 
Unfortunalely, 1he number of snow leopards in the world remains small, causing the real 1hreat of its disappearance. What do we need lo realize responsibility for preserving 1he wild cat? Will !he economic activity and poaching tha1 reduces the range of its habi1a1 be slopped? Can we save other species of animals Iha! are connected by a single biological chain in the life cycle? 
To answer these questions we need lo gel to know what is needed lo preserve and lo grow 1he snow leopard's populalion, what we can do for animals that are endangered alongside wilh exhausted nalural resources. Besides being delighted wilh the snow leopard's beauty, we need lo realize tha1 biodiversity is also an essenlial condition of human existence. We need lo do everything lo leave the snow leopard a lord of the mounlains, so tha1 our descendants could admire ii in a preserved nalural environmen1, rather 1han being able to see it in old photographs and painlings.