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Art for snow leopard conservation

By Ishrat Hyatt
February 01, 2020

Islamabad :In collaboration with Snow Leopard Foundation, (SLF) Gallery 6 has organised an exhibition of paintings and photographs depicting the snow leopard in all its glory. The snow leopard can be found in the Hindu Kush and Karakoram mountains in Pakistan’s northern provinces of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit-Baltistan, and Azad Kashmir.

SLF Snow Leopard Foundation (SLF), one of Pakistan’s most respected conservation nonprofits. The organization is led by 2016 Whitley Award winner Dr. Muhammad Ali Nawaz, who is also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Animal Sciences at Islamabad’s Quaid-i-Azam University.

The exhibition will be inaugurated Ambassador of the Kyrgyz Republic, Erik Beishembiev on February 7 at Gallery 6, Second Floor, Plot 15, Al Abraaj Centre, F-6 Markaz, at5 p.m. Participating artists/photographers: Arjumand Faisel, Bushra Khalid, Hamid Hambhi, Sujjal Kiani,Tahir Bilal Ummi and Tariq Zameer.