What is it about?
The Himalayan wolf faces many threats from illegal poaching due to depredation and traditional uses of body parts to habitat encroachment by livestock and associated decreasing wild prey populations. In this article we present observations on the denning ecology of Himalayan wolves in Nepal together with social surveys of the local mountain communities. A tempo-spatial overlap of wolf home sites used for denning and seasonal livestock herding during spring and summer in the Himalayan high altitude pasturelands promotes human-wolf conflict. We provide recommendations for Himalayan wolf conservation in Nepal and summarized the current legal basis present for this.
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Why is it important?
The Himalayan wolf is an overlooked wolf of the high altitudes of Asia and is under severe conservation pressure from illegal killing and trade.
Perspectives
This interdisciplinary paper outlines the human wolf conflict related with insights around wolf ecology, and gives pragmatic recommendations for first steps towards Himalayan wolf conservation in Nepal.
Geraldine Werhahn
University of Oxford
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This page is a summary of: Conservation implications for the Himalayan wolf Canis (lupus) himalayensis based on observations of packs and home sites in Nepal, Oryx, September 2017, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0030605317001077.
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