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90 rare snow leopards found in She-Foksundo Park
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90 rare snow leopards have been found in the She-Foksundo National Park spread over Mugu and Dolpa districts. In 2019, the park installed 319 automatic cameras in the park and intermediate areas for snow leopard counting. Bishwababu Shrestha, Senior Conservation Officer of the She-Foksundo National Park Office, said that 90 snow leopards were found in the area based on the reports received from those cameras.
The park has informed that the work of analyzing the data of snow leopards has started about 1 year after the installation of automatic camera traps. The government of Nepal and the World Wildlife Fund conducted a sign survey for the first time in 2009, i.e. when counting the footprints of snow leopards using urine technology, from 110 There was an estimated figure of 130.
The number of snow leopards has decreased in the count made by the camera survey technique in 2019. This is the first time that the count of snow leopards has been done in Dolpa using this technique. Chandra Jung Hamal, Research and Field Program Officer of World Wildlife Fund, said that snow leopards have been counted for the first time using such technology.
The main food of snow leopards is Jharal, Ghoral Naur and the number of Jharal Ghoral and Naur is more than 4 thousand in the park. Class K. Mr. is . According to the park, there are two per 100 square kilometers.
The density of snow leopards in She-Foksundo National Park, established in 2040, is the highest in Nepal, according to Hamal, Research and Field Program Officer of World Wildlife Fund. According to official Hamal, snow leopards are found at an altitude of about 2,500 to 5,500 meters in the park area.
The park covers an area of 3555 square kilometers. Within this park, there are 4 local levels including Mugum Karmarong Rural Municipality of Mugu, three of Dolpa. The number of internal and external tourists visiting She-Foksunda National Park is about 4,000. The number of tourists visiting Rara in Mugu is 11 thousand annually.
She-Foksundo National Park is named after the historic She-Monastery and Lake. She-Foksundo lake can be reached by walking for 2 days from Dunai market in Dolpa. The annual revenue of the park is more than 2 crores . The park says that the annual revenue of the park will increase due to the collection of precious herbs Yarsagumba.
She-Foksundo National Park has the rare snow leopard, muskrat, jharla naur, ghoral, langurbadar, jackal, fyauro wild animals and animals including danphe, kalij, chir kalij and sallo uttis deodar juniper vegetation.
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