The Wildlife Conservation Society has released this camera trap photograph of an endangered snow leopard, photographed in the Sast Valley in Afghanistan.

“WCS researchers are conducting ongoing wildlife surveys in this remote area with the goal of establishing a protected area,” says the group. “They found this endangered cat … willing to strike a pose or two.”

Snow leopards (Panthera uncia) are classified as endangered on the IUCN’s Red List.

The conflict in Afghanistan has opened up a new market for products from the animals, says the IUCN, which are also threatened by habitat degradation, shortages of prey animals and killing by farmers worried about their impact on livestock.