The photo exhibition, “That’s what you’re like, Snow Leopard!”, opened in Sayanogorsk on March 15. The Wild Cats of South Siberia, a project to study and preserve these unique wild cats, was unveiled at the exhibition, as was a book of photographs, “Snow Leopard: Tracking the Mysterious Beast.”

Members of the Russian Geographical Society’s Khakassian republican department, experts of the Strana Zapovednaya National Fund, and employees of the Khakassky and Sayano-Shushensky wildlife reserves will speak about the project to study and preserve wild cats.

The book of photographs, “Snow Leopard: Tracking the Mysterious Beast,” is based on research materials of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, the Russian Academy of Sciences, Strana Zapovednaya National Fund and the Russian Geographical Society, compiled in the Khakassky, Sayano-Shushensky and Pozarym reserves. Photos captured by trail cameras show the snow leopards in their natural habitat in the Western Sayan Mountains.