Prime Minister Vladimir Putin stopped in Khakassia on his way to Sakhalin to discuss with researchers the prospects for a snow leopard rehabilitation center in South Siberia. Khakassia is a natural home for snow leopards. One of the predators named Mongol was captured in the region a week prior to the prime minister’s visit.
Zoologists caught the animal under the Program for the Study and Monitoring of the Snow Leopard Population in South Siberia.
Vladimir Putin looks after snow leopard Mongol
11:13 GMT 21.03.2011 (Updated: 19:53 GMT 19.10.2022)
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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin stopped in Khakassia on his way to Sakhalin to discuss with researchers the prospects for a snow leopard rehabilitation center in South Siberia. Khakassia is a natural home for snow leopards. One of the predators named Mongol was captured in the region a week prior to the prime minister’s visit.
Zoologists caught the animal under the Program for the Study and Monitoring of the Snow Leopard Population in South Siberia.
