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In India, around 378 of the species are left, distributed in the upper Himalayan region in Lahaul, Spiti, Ladakh and in parts of Sikkim and Uttarakhand.
Satellite images released by ISRO showed the Himalayan town sank 5.4 cm in just 12 days
Markhor struggles to survive in Kashmir as its Hirapora habitat is overgrazed, fragmented by roads and power lines By Mudassir Kuloo Abdul Hamid Bhat, 58, of Shopian district in Kashmir, vividly remembers the days he could easily sight a herd of Markhor in the nearby Hirapora Wildlife Sanctuary. But he has not seen any of the famous mountain goats in the last two decades. Surveys by the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) say the Markhor population in Hirapora has fallen from 70 in 2004 to 30-35 now. “The construction of the Mughal Road and overgrazing by [the sheep and goat flocks of] nomad Baka...