Most visitors don’t consider the Himalaya a wildlife destination, but the world’s highest mountains hold a surprising amount of diversity. From snow leopards and grumpy Pallas’s cats to blood ...

SRINAGAR: In a rare and positive development for wildlife conservation, the critically endangered Himalayan Ibex, has been ...

A Bengal tiger has been spotted at nearly 10,000 ft in the Himalayas, raising questions about habitat shifts and mountain ...

Bageshwar: A Bengal tiger has been sighted at an altitude of over 9,875 ft in the Sunderdhunga Glacier Valley of ...

The sighting is a huge surprise as the Bengal tiger is typically associated with lowland forests, plains or foothill jungles, ...

Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand, India, 2nd April 2019—Last month, SECURE Himalaya, a new initiative to document and combat illegal wildlife trade in the Himalayas region was launched through a stakeholders’ ...

In the Himalayas, when the elevation surpasses 8,000 feet, it starts to get hard to breathe. As you continue to climb, the air gets even thinner and barely anything is seen growing or living that high ...

The world's smallest deer, a flying frog and catfish that stick to rocks -- as well as more than 350 other species -- have been discovered over the past 10 years in the Himalayas, making them one of ...

A surge in “helicopter tourism” at Sagarmatha, the Nepali name for Mount Everest, is adversely affecting the local community and wildlife, reports Mongabay contributor Shashwat Pant. Helicopters have ...

As human populations expand and natural habitats shrink, people and animals are increasingly coming into conflict over living space and food. The impacts are often huge - people loose their crops, ...

Mingma Norbu Sherpa, 50, managing director of the World Wildlife Fund in the eastern Himalayas, died Sept. 23 in a helicopter crash in Nepal. He had been a resident of Falls Church, Va., but spent ...

New Delhi, India: Organised wildlife crime needs an organised response. In light of this, TRAFFIC brought together various law enforcement agencies whose mission it is to stop poaching and illegal ...