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High altitude wild animals at threat ?

High altitude environment of Himalayan region

By Dr Ramesh Behera
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          The high altitude environment has its own climatic complex of low atmospheric pressure,     atm ospheric cold, atmospheric aridity, light, snow cover, and also microclimate. The high-altitude areas pose threat to wildlife,threatened high-elevation mammal,  Multiple threats to Himalayan biodiversity, Other Threats and also feeling the impacts of climate change. High altitude environment of Himalayan region:- The Himalay, by prudence of its area and staggering level, goes about as an extraordinary climatic separation and manages meteorological circumstances in the subcontinent districts of South Asia. In any case, the related intricacies and their belongings are yet to be set out to figure out the meteorology of the Indian Himalayan District (IHR). In this audit volume, we combine the outcomes and derivations of a few examinations did in the IHR involving in situ information, somewhat detected information, and model-based meteorological perceptions. Results give experiences int
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Himalayan Wolf

By Dr Ramesh Behera
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<>    Himalayan Wolf ( Ladakh wolf):-  Family-canidae, Sp.-canis lupus,  Altitude-4800 to 5150 m.     The Himalayan wolf is like an Alsatian dog. The colour variation are generally found. The wolves from northern slopes of the Himalaya are greyish - brown in colour. The face and limbs are generally redish and the lower surface a dingy white. The winter coat is dense with grey or bright buff under wool. The body length 95-110 cm, height 75-80 cm, tail 35-40 cm and weight 35-55 kg. It hunts during the night hours and hare, fox, antelope, and rodents etc. are primary food items. It does not spare sheep or goats also if available.          They generally move in small groups up and down the valleys along with routes used by man. It breeds mostly at the end of the rains and young are born in the month of December. But at high altitude, it breeds later and pups are born in spring. the pups varies from 3 to 8 nos.  The Himalayan wolf's distribution included the Himalayan
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