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Co‐designing conservation interventions through participatory action research in the Indian Trans‐Himalaya

Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 2023
Community‐based conservation, despite being more inclusive than fortress conservation, has been criticized for being a top‐down implementation of external ideas brought to local communities for conservation's benefit.
M. Khanyari, R. Dorjay, S. Lobzang, A. Bijoor, K. Suryawanshi   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

A mixed‐methods approach for identifying high conservation value areas in the high‐altitude landscapes of the Indian Himalayan region

Geo: Geography and Environment
High conservation values (HCVs) are a set of characteristics or attributes that are considered to be of exceptional significance for the conservation of biodiversity and ecosystem services.
Mehebub Sahana, Gopala Areendran, Akhil Sivadas, Md Masroor, C. S. Abhijita, Krishna Raj, Kumar Ranjan, Diwakar Sharma, Md Sajid Sultan, Abhishek Ghoshal, Siddharth Parameswaran, Haroon Sajjad, Samrat Deb, Kashif Imdad   +13 more
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Perceived conflicts between pastoralism and conservation of the kiang Equus kiang in the Ladakh Trans-Himalaya, India. [PDF]

Environ Manage, 2006
An emerging conflict with Trans-Himalayan pastoral communities in Ladakh¿s Changthang Plateau threatens the conservation prospects of the kiang (Equus kiang) in India.
Bhatnagar YV, Wangchuk R, Prins HH, Van Wieren SE, Mishra C.   +4 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Pashmina Goat Farming in Cold Arid Desert of Changthang and Its Impact on Economy of Changpa Nomads of This Region [PDF]

, 2020
In Changthang, there is a trend towards increasing the livestock population, especially a breed of goat (Capra sibirica) that produces one of the finest natural fibres: pashmina, which is the mainstay of economy of Changpa nomads.
Bashir, Beigh, Akeel, Samina, Bashir,
openaire   +4 more sources

A little known past tense marker of the northern Changthang dialects of Ladakh [PDF]

Himalayan Linguistics
This article describes the various usages of a little known past tense morpheme of the northern part of the Ladakhi Changthang: /-pak/, /-phak/, or {-puk} (< pa.-ḥdug). To some extent, the functions of this morpheme correspond to the so-called ‘evidentially neutral’ or ‘factual’ marker pa.red of Standard Spoken Tibetan.
Zeisler, Bettina
openaire   +3 more sources

Adoption of Traditional and Indigenous Storage and Drying Method of Vegetables in Cold Arid Region of Changthang [PDF]

International Journal of Agricultural Sciences and Technology
The process of drying or dehydrating food involves removing moisture to preserve and store it, in changthang , this has been a long-standing tradition, especially in the winter months due to harsh climate not availability of fresh vegetables.
Tashi Dolkar, Phungtsog Tundup
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Biomass and diversity of dry alpine plant communities along altitudinal gradients in the Himalayas. [PDF]

J Plant Res, 2012
Namgail T, Rawat GS, Mishra C, van Wieren SE, Prins HH.   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Tibetan brown bear recorded in Changthang, Ladakh, India—ERRATUM

Oryx
Vineet Kumar, B.M. Sharma, Lalit Kumar Sharma, Beem Dutt Joshi   +3 more
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Tibetan brown bear recorded in Changthang, Ladakh, India

Oryx
Vineet Kumar, B. M. Sharma, Lalit Kumar Sharma, Bheem Dutt Joshi   +3 more
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Climate warming promotes growth in Himalayan alpine cushion plants but threatens survival through increased extreme snowfall. [PDF]

New Phytol
Summary Climate warming stimulates growth and reproduction in cold‐adapted plants but also leads to extreme weather events that may hinder their performance. We examined these predictions in the cold‐arid Himalayan subnival zone at 5900 m, where unprecedented warming and extreme snowfalls occurred over the past three decades.
Jandova V, Altman J, Sehadova H, Macek M, Fibich P, Ruka AT, Dolezal J.   +6 more
europepmc   +2 more sources