KYRGYZSTAN – LEOPARDS
August 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLA HIGH profile environmental project protecting endangered snow leopards has been launched in association with central Asia's largest gold deposit, the Kumtor gold mine, in Kyrgyzstan's inaccessible Tien Shan mountains. Environmentalists have consistently attacked the development, particularly after sodium cyanide from an overturned truck spilled into the Barskoon River in 1998. But this new project, run and implemented by Fauna & Flora International, the Community & Business Forum and the International Snow Leopard Trust could mollify ...
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