This stunning picture of a snow leopard has netizens in awe

The picture was taken by a photographer Sascha Fonseca.

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As per the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), there are less than 10,000 snow leopards in the world.

Snow leopards are elusive animals and are hard to spot. It takes wildlife photographers and big cat enthusiasts much effort to get one shot of snow leopards.

However, earlier this week, a photograph of a snow leopard, clicked by photographer Sascha Fonseca, went viral across social media.

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The photograph, which was originally posted by Sascha Fonseca on his Instagram account on June 17, 2022, was also shared across social media platforms by others.

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On Sunday, a Twitter user named Dhruva Jaishankar (@d_jaishankar) shared the picture.

What a fantastic picture of an elusive snow leopard in Ladakh, probably reacting to the shutter sound of the camera trap. https://t.co/g9ZsSjy1ip pic.twitter.com/cfwpd9xNbZ

— Dhruva Jaishankar (@d_jaishankar) June 26, 2022

The tweet soon went viral with over 1.2 lakh likes and over 12,000 retweets. Commenting on it, a Twitter user wrote, “What a gorgeous creature”. Another person remarked, “So fierce, and yet so cute”.

What a gorgeous creature. https://t.co/wGWJemTWU8

— Schrödinger’s cat (@ann_hemingway) June 28, 2022

when someone talks to me on a damn monday morning before I’ve had my freakin’ coffee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! https://t.co/ocjtOHrYcj

— not the guy (@notnotnuanced) June 27, 2022

Reminded me of this pic.twitter.com/DDy19rkG9c

— Correct me if I am wrong (@CorrectmeifIam1) June 26, 2022

https://t.co/xL5Kfzs2eT

— K. Boristovich 🇺🇦 #GRINDCORE #ARG #Eurovision (@HardSciFiMovies) June 27, 2022

So fierce and yet so cuddly! Sorry had to be said #catperson

— Shakti Salgaokar (@shaaqT) June 26, 2022

I have seen him pic.twitter.com/8lWjtMzlQA

— Max (@max51_51) June 26, 2022

😅 pic.twitter.com/JyIYOvSlWz

— Iván Portilla (@IvanPortillaGil) June 26, 2022

Same vibes but with opposite head position:- pic.twitter.com/k3eoBDO2GS

— Kartikey Singh (@murugan_singh) June 26, 2022

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In India, snow leopards are found in the trans-Himalayan landscape of Himachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir and Sikkim.

As per the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), there are less than 10,000 snow leopards in the world which puts them in the IUCN Red List’s “Vulnerable” category.

In 2019, Prakash Javadekar, the then Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, launched a national-level protocol called the Snow Leopard Population Assessment in India (SPAI) that aimed to estimate the population of snow leopards in India.

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