Yashin and Nubra have been exploring their new immersive habitat which has been designed to recreate the rocky terrain of the Himalayas.
Two “incredibly playful” snow leopards have arrived at a zoo in Cheshire for the first time in a “huge milestone” in the conservation charity’s 93-year history.
The snow leopards arrived ahead of the opening of a new habitat at the zoo, containing more than 600 tonnes of scree and rocks to recreate the terrain of the Himalayan mountains where they live in the wild.The immersive habitat features two large outdoor areas with rocky outcrops, shallow cave retreats, ledges and steep rugged cliffs to recreate the experience of the wild.
“They’re also both now at the age where they’d naturally start to leave their mother and become independent, which is why they’ve been paired up here at Chester Zoo as part of a European conservation breeding programme, which is working to safeguard the species from becoming extinct. It is first time in the conservation charity’s long history that its experts have cared for the highly threatened species which is vulnerable to extinction, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature .
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