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 ...

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

A tiger sighted in the mountains at 9,875 feet has left researchers stunned.

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’ ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Mountain residents are becoming the frontline protectors of Sikkim’s wildlife by tracking snow leopards and assessing ...

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 ...

Panic gripped Srinagar as a Himalayan black bear was sighted at the University of Kashmir and later at SKIMS hospital, nearly ...

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 ...