the pontifications of pompuss

I'm giving thanks.   It seems that a  group of snow leopards has been discovered in a wild and rather  inaccessible area of Afghanistan's mountains.  

Because this area is so remote few  people, if any, live there and the war has not affected the terrain or the animals who make it their home.    Long may it stay that way.

It occurs to me that if the endangered animal search team who caught these creatures on their hidden cameras had had the sense to keep their mouths shut about it the leopards would be even safer.