Leopard attacks forest official during capture mission in Kashmir

Jammu & Kashmir was in the news once again last week, this time for a viral video of a leopard attacking a man during a farcical attempt to capture the animal. News reports said the leopard entered Fatehpura village in Ganderbal district of central Kashmir and injured two women and a man. Fearing for their safety, locals alerted the authorities. So far so good. What wasn’t good was what followed, as some uniformed men, supposedly...

Numbers of hangul rising again in Kashmir

Kashmir is home to several wild animals. However, it was the critically low numbers of hangul, a species of deer, that alarmed wildlife experts. Now, however, the state is reported to have experienced one of the healthiest rutting, or mating, seasons in recent times. Experts estimate that there will be more than 300 hangul this spring. This threshold will be crossed after three decades, thanks to the painstaking efforts by wildlife preservation staff there. In...