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Post by Owen on Oct 31, 2020 19:53:27 GMT
1 ~~~ What it's like to trek with snow leopards in Ladakh ~ Conde Nast Traveler ~~~ Amid the craggy himalayan peaks, a grassroots scheme in which humans co-exist with the wildest of creatures makes a compelling case for community-driven conservation
What are we to make of elusiveness in an animal? If a creature is difficult for humans to see in the wild, is that nature’s way of hanging a Do Not Disturb sign? When the animal lives in a fragile ecosystem imperilled by human activity, what are the ethics of going there, even when tourism might drive conservation? As I looked out over the Himalayas on my flight into the city of Leh, in India’s far-northern region of Ladakh, I found myself picking at these questions. I was on my way to join a trip – an expedition, in the preferred nomenclature of adventure travel – that had as its goal the sighting of an animal that has become so defined by elusiveness it wears the adjective like an epithet. There is the brave lion, the sly fox and the elusive snow leopard. www.cntraveller.com/article/snow-leopards-in-ladakh ~ 31 October 2020 ~
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