The rare and secretive snow leopard is one of the few beasts that has captured human imagination. Fewer than 7,000 Panthera uncia are expected to persist over Asia’s high mountains, according to the red list of threatened species. A fifth of them dwell in Tajikistan’s Pamir mountains, the world’s third-highest environment after the Himalayan and […]
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Rare Tibetan Antelopes Are Killed to Make Expensive Luxury Scarves
The market for an expensive, luxurious scarf is wiping out the population of the rare Tibetan antelope. The shahtoosh shawl or scarf is made from the down hair of these beautiful antelopes. However, it takes the death of four antelopes to make just one scarf. They are not domesticated and can’t be shorn, so the […]
Outrage over trophy hunter who paid $110,000 to kill rare mountain goat
An American man reportedly shelled out $110,000 to hunt and kill a rare mountain goat while on a recent expedition trip in Pakistan’s northern Himalayan region of Gilgit-Baltistan.. Bryan Kinsel Harlan, a trophy hunter from Texas, was photographed on Tuesday kneeling and smiling behind the butchered goat. “It was an easy and close shot,” Mr […]