“Kazakhstan has successfully doubled its snow leopard population to approximately 180 individuals, according to the country’s Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources, Yerlan Nysanbayev, reports a Kazinform News Agency correspondent…

‘Thanks to efforts in protecting and monitoring snow leopards, we have increased their population from the critical levels of the 1990s by more than twofold, reaching around 180 individuals.'”

From Kazinform Agency.