Cameras with 56 sensors have been installed on the mountain and road to be able to see the snow leopards moving around. The cameras will be installed for one and a half months to count the snow leopards.
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Every year, deer, wild boar and wild boar can be hunted in the Dhorpatan Hunting Reserve. Other animals are protected in this reserve.
Many animals, including the endangered red panda, snow leopard, hyena, and Himalayan bear, are protected here. However, the number of animals here is not certain. For that, for the first time, the Dhorpatan Hunting Reserve has started the work of counting snow leopards. Ranger Sagar Subedi, the reserve's information officer, informed that cameras have been installed on the potential path of the leopard.
The main habitat of the snow leopard is around the snow line. Therefore, cameras have been installed from an altitude of 3,200 meters to 5,000 meters in 6 blocks of Dhorpatan.
56 cameras with sensors have been installed on the mountain and road so that the snow leopard can be seen walking. Cameras will be installed for one and a half months to count the snow leopard. Cameras have been installed in Falgune, Barse, Dhustung, Seng, Sun Daha and Togadi, where there is a possibility of finding snow leopards. The reserve has deployed a technical team and installed cameras in those places. The snow leopard especially lives in dens around the snow line. Since it moves by slicing snow, the technical team has also reached the same place and started a search campaign. ‘The snow leopard is counted based on the images, footsteps and directions captured by the camera,’ said Subedi, ‘15 employees and experts have been deployed in this campaign.’ The technicians will visit the place repeatedly to change the camera batteries every 15 days.
A decade ago, the Dhorpatan Hunting Reserve also counted red pandas. Cameras and search methods were also adopted for that. But although detailed information was not available, the reserve estimated that there were 1,200 red pandas. In 2039 BS, the government of Nepal declared an area of 1,325 km2 in Baglung, Myagdi and Rukum as a hunting reserve. The Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation opens hunting in Dhorpatan on the basis of global tenders. This year too, in the first season, 11 wild boars and 8 wild boars were hunted in the last Kartik and in the second season, from the last week of Chaitra to the second week of Baisakh, 14 wild boars, 10 wild boars and 13 wild boars were hunted. This year, the reserve has collected 41.779 crore rupees in revenue from hunting.
