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Understanding People’s Relationship With Wildlife in Trans-Himalayan Folklore
Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2021 People’s views and values for wild animals are often a result of their experiences and traditional knowledge. Local folklore represents a resource that can enable an understanding of the nature of human-wildlife interactions, especially the underlying ...
Saloni Bhatia +8 more
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Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 2020 1. Camera trapping is a widely employed tool in wildlife research, used to estimate animal abundances, understand animal movement, assess species richness and understand animal behaviour.
Koustubh Sharma +7 more
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Preliminary results from applying satellite-tracking on snow leopards for the first time in China
Global Ecology and Conservation, 2022 The lack of snow leopards telemetry studies in China has hampered researchers in studying the movement ecology and home range sizes of snow leopards, the knowledge gap of which has affected effective planning and improvement of snow leopard protected ...
Chenxing Yu +13 more
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Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 2020 Some mammalian species that inhabit cold environments are known to eat snow to fulfill their water requirements. However, there is a potential trade-off between eating snow and drinking water because of the considerable energy that the body invests in ...
Dale M. Kikuchi +4 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Accurate assessments of the patterns and drivers of livestock depredation by wild carnivores are vital for designing effective mitigation strategies to reduce human-wildlife conflict. Snow leopard’s (Panthera uncia) range extensively overlaps pastoralist
Qi Lu +13 more
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Prey preferences of the snow leopard (Panthera uncia): regional diet specificity holds global significance for conservation. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 The endangered snow leopard is a large felid that is distributed over 1.83 million km(2) globally. Throughout its range it relies on a limited number of prey species in some of the most inhospitable landscapes on the planet where high rates of human ...
Salvador Lyngdoh +5 more
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Factors affecting livestock depredation by snow leopards (Panthera uncia) in the Himalayan region of Nepal [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 The snow leopard (Panthera uncia) found in central Asia is classified as vulnerable species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Every year, large number of livestock are killed by snow leopards in Nepal, leading to economic loss
Ajay Karki, Saroj Panthi
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Snow leopard distribution in the Chang Tang region of Tibet, China
Global Ecology and Conservation, 2020 In 2006 and 2007, the authors conducted human-wildlife conflict surveys in the Tibet Autonomous Region’s (TAR) Shainza, Nyima, and Tsonyi Counties, located in the TAR’s remote Chang Tang region.
John D. Farrington, Dawa Tsering
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An empirical demonstration of the effect of study design on density estimations
Scientific Reports, 2021 The simultaneous development of technology (e.g. camera traps) and statistical methods, particularly spatially capture–recapture (SCR), has improved monitoring of large mammals in recent years.
Muhammad Ali Nawaz +5 more
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Global Ecology and Conservation, 2021 The habitats of snow leopards (Panthera uncia) are heavily utilized as pasturelands on the Tibetan Plateau. Livestock can benefit the snow leopard populations via providing extra prey resources.
Chuangming Yang +7 more
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