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At the forum, held in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, officials and conservationists discussed urgent actions and a new global strategy to address conservation of the endangered snow leopard and its habitat in the critical ecosystems of Central Asia; culminating in the adoption of the Bishkek Declaration on the Conservation of the Snow Leopard and ...
A small reservoir on the Kargay-Bulak river was built to study the Amu Darya trout. Other wildlife includes the very rare snow leopard (in Kyrgyz: "ilbirs") on the alpine meadows and snowfields above 2,500 m elevation, wild goats, roe deer and marmots. A park camera photographed a snow leopard for the first time in May 2017. [4]
Snow leopard on the reverse of the old 10,000-Kazakhstani tenge banknote Emblem of Tatarstan, depicting the Aq Bars, a mythical winged Snow leopard. The snow leopard is widely used in heraldry and as an emblem in Central Asia. The Aq Bars ('White Leopard') is a political symbol of the Tatars, Kazakhs, and Bulgars.
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Dr Francksen said snow leopards are native to the mountain ranges of central and south Asia, such as Afghanistan, the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau. They live above 10,000ft (3,000m), though ...
Aq Bars (or Ak Bars) (Tatar: Ак Барс; Russian: Ак Барс) is the emblem of Tatarstan.It is an ancient Bulgar symbol translated as "White Leopard" or "Snow Leopard", and has been in use since 1991 as the official symbol of Tatarstan.
The coat of arms of the city of Bishkek «represents a rectangular silhouette of a fortress, where '"Bishkek" is written below under the broken line of mountains in large letters, and above it on the wall of the fortress is a light square in Kyrgyz language with "Ilbirs" (snow leopard) in the center of the circle. [1]
On November 19, 2014, KEP issued the second series of stamps, dedicated to the Fauna of Kyrgyzstan. These stamps depict typical representatives of the Kyrgyz animal world: Saker Falcon, Yak, Central Asian Ibex and Snow Leopard. The KEP stamps can be purchased at the main office of the postal operator in Bishkek, as well as online on the KEP ...