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

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

Established in 2019, Ladakh became a union territory after the bifurcation of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir into ...

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, ...

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

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

Hemis sits in the high-altitude region of Ladakh in India’s far north. It’s one of the last great strongholds of the elusive snow leopard, and the only park in India where safaris are done on ...

Comprehensive assessment of snow leopard distribution and population in the Indian Trans-Himalaya, Ladakh: Standardizing methods for evidence-based conservation (IMAGE) ...

In a significant conservation initiative, residents of Phobrang have converted a traditional wolf trap, locally known as ...