The Annapurna Conservation Area Project (ACAP) offices in Lomanthang, Jomsom, and Manang have simultaneously launched the survey.
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A simultaneous survey has been launched in Mustang and Manang to determine the number of rare wildlife species, the snow leopard.
The Lomanthang, Jomsom and Manang offices of the Annapurna Conservation Area Project (ACAP) have started the survey simultaneously.
Earlier, ACAP and snow leopard research agencies had been conducting a limited number of camera traps in the areas where the snow leopard is likely to live.
This meant that the number of snow leopards in Mustang and Manang could not be determined. This year, Mustang and Manang are working on camera trapping for the snow leopard survey under the Annapurna Conservation Area Project.
Umesh Poudel, head of the ACAP Lomanthang office, said that the winter season is the right time for the survey. Since snow falls at an altitude of about four thousand meters above sea level during the winter season, there is a lack of grass, and the food species of the snow leopard descend. Chief Poudel said that more than 130 camera traps will be used in four municipalities out of 161 grids in Mustang for the survey.
He said that ACAP technicians and locals have been mobilized to survey the habitat and movement of snow leopards. ACAP Lomanthang has stated that it plans to place more than 99 cameras in various snow leopard habitat areas of Lomanthang and Loghekar Damodarkunda rural municipalities of Upper Mustang.
Similarly, ACAP Jomsom has installed seven cameras for trapping in the areas around the border village of Sangta in Mustang and Dolpa. Earlier, Biocos Nepal and ACAP have placed 16 cameras in Marpha, Chimang, Thini, Jhong and Chengur, among others, informed Rajesh Gupta, the office chief of ACAP Jomsom.
According to Chief Gupta, camera trapping is being carried out to determine the number of snow leopards in Mustang and to study the status of the snow leopard's food species.
ACAP Manang office chief Dhak Bahadur Bhujel informed that the snow leopard survey has started in Manang since the second week of August. According to him, 129 cameras have been trapped for the survey in Manang and the work of monitoring and monitoring the currently placed cameras is underway. 'We have completed the work of trapping cameras in the habitat of snow leopards in four municipalities of Manang, and work has been done to add cameras in some necessary places,' said office chief Bhujel, 'Here we have allocated 22 cameras for the Himalayan wolf and the remaining 107 cameras for the study of snow leopards and leopards.'
It is said that the cameras placed in Mustang and Manang for the snow leopard survey will remain in the field for 6 months. After that, the cameras placed for the snow leopard survey will be removed and the data survey will begin.
