The snow leopard, one of the world's most elusive big cats, though hard to track, is silently not only surviving but thriving and is a resident population in Jammu and Kashmir all year round, ...

Meet Khenrab Phuntsog, a wildlife guard from Ladakh who has rescued 47 snow leopards over two decades, often using just a ...

A snow leopard (R) eyes a dog along a mountainside at Thiksey village on the outskirts of Leh in India’s Ladakh region on February 13, 2024. CREDIT: MOHD ARHAAN ARCHER/AFP via Getty Images.

The researchers estimated that Ladakh is home to 477 snow leopards, representing 68% of India’s total population. The density of snow leopards varied between 1 and 3 individuals per 100 km2, and ...

A 2012 survey using camera traps counted 11 snow leopards in Hemis National Park, up from 7 in 2006. Today, Khenrab estimates ...

A report consolidated on the basis of a study by an NGO has rekindled hopes for maintaining high-altitude biodiversity , ...

Covering approximately 120,000 km of snow leopard habitat across the trans-Himalayan region, including the UTs of Ladakh and J and K, and states such as Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, and ...

This represents over 70 per cent of potential snow leopard habitat across the Trans-Himalayan regions of Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, and Arunachal Pradesh.

Ladakh — once a Himalayan kingdom on the Silk Road — is home to dramatic high-altitude deserts, golden-spired monasteries and the snow leopard’s rugged territory.

They found that Ladakh had the highest number of snow leopards, followed by Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim. Jammu and Kashmir had the lowest number of big cats.

Sonmarg is not just a stop on the way to Ladakh it is a land where snow dances like poetry and meadows glow like gold from glaciers to alpine lakes and sacred pilgrim routes every step here feels like ...

The Snow Leopard Trust, a US-based conservation group, says the exact total number is not known but that “there may be as few as 3,920 and probably no more than 6,390” across 12 countries in Asia.