To go with 'MONGOLIA-ENVIRONMENT-FARMING, FOCUS' by Khaliun Bayartsogt
This photo taken on March 13, 2023 shows a snow leopard on Jargalant Mountain, in Mankhan, in Mongolia’s western Khovd province. The icy peaks of Jargalant Mountain are supposed to belong to snow leopards, whose numbers have dwindled to fewer than 1,000 in Mongolia, but hard-pressed herders are increasingly pushing into the vulnerable animals' traditional habitat. (Photo by Odbayar Urkhensuren / AFP) / To go with 'MONGOLIA-ENVIRONMENT-FARMING, FOCUS' by Khaliun Bayartsogt