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Fox, J.L.
Status of the snow leopard Panthera uncia in Northwest India
1991 Biological Conservation (55): 283-298
A nine-month survey of snow leopard status was carried out in selected regions of India's three northwestern Himalayan states. Evidence of snow leopard presence was most abundant in central Ladakh and decreased southward. Prey populations, primarily blue sheep Pseudois nayaur and Asiatic Ibex Capra ibex, were also more plentiful in the areas surveyed to the north of the Himalaya. Perhaps 400 snow leopards occur throughout northwest India. Several national parks in India's Himalaya probably include small numbers of snow leopard, but the stronghold of this species is apparently the trans-Himalayan ranges in Ladakh where new parks and reserves are being established, some in association with a 'snow leopard recovery programme' of the state of Jammu and Kashmir and a 'Project Snow Leopard' of the central Indian government. Because of the generally low density of snow leopards, conservation measures must also be considered within the large areas of its range lying outside parks and reserves.
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