The Snow Leopard and the Goat - 9780295746579

The Snow Leopard and the GoatPolitics of Conservation in the Western Himalayas\nAuthor(s): Shafqat Hussain, K. Sivaramakrishnan, K. Sivaramakrishnan\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Washington Press, United States\nImprint: University of Washington Press\nISBN-13: 9780295746579, 978-0295746579\nSynopsis\nWho should bear the cost of protecting charismatic wildlife?Following the downgrading of the snow leopards status from endangered to vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature in 2017, debate has renewed about the actual number of snow leopards in the wild and the most effective strategies for coexisting with these enigmatic animals. Evidence from Pakistan and other countries in the snow leopards home range shows that they rely heavily on human societydomestic livestock accounts for as much as 70 percent of their diet. Maintaining that the snow leopard is a wild animal, conservation NGOs and state agencies have enacted laws that punish farmers for at.