Ecological impacts of climate change on the snow leopard (Panthera unica) in South Asia

The Social Impacts of Climate Change in South Asia

Sujatha Byravan Sudhir Chella Rajan 1. Background Climate change is undoubtedly the most serious environmental crisis Earth has ever witnessed. As the planet enters what many are terming the ‘Anthropocene’ period in its geological history (Crutzen and Stoermer 2000) the impacts of climate change—along with the side-by-side destruction of ecosystems associated with the relentless industrialisati...

Snow leopard (Panthera uncia) surveys in the Western Himalayas, India

We conducted surveys above 3000 m elevation in eight protected areas of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh. These surveys provide new information on snow leopard in Uttarakhand on the basis of indirect evidence such as pugmark and scat. Snow leopard evidence (n = 13) were found between 3190 and 4115 m elevation. On an average, scats (n = 09) of snow leopard were found for every 56 km walked and p...

Prey Preference of Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia) in South Gobi, Mongolia

Accurate information about the diet of large carnivores that are elusive and inhabit inaccessible terrain, is required to properly design conservation strategies. Predation on livestock and retaliatory killing of predators have become serious issues throughout the range of the snow leopard. Several feeding ecology studies of snow leopards have been conducted using classical approaches. These te...

Climate Change Impacts on South American Rangelands

Climate Change Impacts in the Asia/Pacific Region

In the Asia/Pacific region there is evidence of prominent increases in the intensity and/or frequency of many extreme events such as heat waves, tropical cyclones, prolonged dry spells, intense rainfall, tornadoes, snow avalanches, thunderstorms, and severe dust storms in the region. Furthermore, the region is highly subject to natural hazards, such as the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, the 2005 Pa...