: The mystery of why the elusive Himalayan wolf is stalking the slopes of Mount Everest #IndiaNEWS On a fine morning in April, Mount Everest can be seen clearly from the Sagarmatha (Everest) National

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The mystery of why the elusive Himalayan wolf is stalking the slopes of Mount Everest #IndiaNEWS
On a fine morning in April, Mount Everest can be seen clearly from the Sagarmatha (Everest) National Park office in Namche, northeastern Nepal, the snow from its peak evaporating to form a thin layer of cloud. Bishnu Rokaya, the park’s assistant conservation officer, has little time for the beauty on display as he flips through the pages of their latest annual report. He points to a passage stating that, “from mid-2020 to mid-2021, over three hundred livestock [animals] were killed by wild animals in the park and its buffer zone areas, for which we have paid the communities a sum of over 90 lakh Nepalese rupee as compensation for their losses.�?Himalayan wolves – one of Nepal’s least-studied wild animals – are playing an outsized role in the problem.According to the report, of the 323 livestock animals killed, 234 – over 70% – were killed by Himalayan wolves, known locally as bwasho. And this number has been rising year on year, said Rokaya. “We do not know the exact reason for this increased number of casualties, but it has become a very serious issue for us and the communities in recent years,�? he said.The Himalayan wolf, also called the Tibetan wolf, has a population of several thousand in adjoining...Read more

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