KATHMANDU: Forest and Environment Minister Ain Bahadur Shahi Thakuri has emphasized the need for increasing investment in conservation of snow leopard. Minister Shahi said it during a conference organized here in a bid to promote the conservation of snow leopard and its study and research. Since the snow leopard is gradually becoming rare, more investment […]
Mustang district, which lies within the country’s Central Snow Leopard Conservation Landscape, has started to teach the importance of snow leopard for healthy ecosystem to school children through their textbooks.
TAPLEJUNG: The snow leopard has continued prowling in the Kanchanjungha area. In the last fiscal year alone, the snow leopards killed 16 yaks reared by the farmers. The yaks kept in enclosures were killed by the wild cats, according to Kanchanjungha Conservation Area Management Council. The yaks belonging to farmers from Phaktanglung rural municipality-7- Angmu […]
INDIA: India is home to 718 snow leopards, according to the first-ever survey of the animal in the country, the federal environment ministry has said. This means that Indian snow leopards account for roughly 10-15% of the big cat’s global population. The snow leopard is classified as vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of […]
KATHMANDU: The rare snow leopard which was rescued from Urlabari Municipality in the Tarai belt was made public in Kathmandu on Friday. The snow leopard is kept at the Central Zoo. At a news conference, the Department of the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation and National Trust for Nature Conservation and the Central Zoo revealed […]
