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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On a cold January morning in the high-altitude region of Spiti in the Indian Himalayas, a team of researchers set out to study the disappearing snow in the mountains. Along the trail, they stopped to ...