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Examples of habitats include: desert. meadow. woodland. grassland. forest. seashore. ocean.

Hemis National Park is a high altitude national park in Ladakh, India. Globally famous for its snow leopards, it is believed to have the highest density of them in any protected area in the world.

73 individualsFrom this dataset of 44 individuals, we estimated that the snow leopard population size is likely to be 51 individuals and this population can be reliably estimated to be up to 73 individuals, excluding cubs.

Uttarakhand has over 85 snow leopards, according to a rough estimate by the WII, and the countrywide number is estimated to be 450-500 but the first official census is under way.

The snow leopard finds a home in the Hindu Kush and Karakoram mountains in Pakistan’s northern provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit Baltistan, and Azad Kashmir.

State’s State Common name IUCN category Haryana Blackbuck NT Himachal Pradesh Snow leopard VU Jharkhand Indian elephant EN Karnataka Indian elephant EN

They are found in 12 countries—including China, Bhutan, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Russia, and Mongolia.

Snow leopards are also known as “ghost of the mountains” and are notoriously elusive animals. The snow leopard was seen at 12,500 feet near Kaza, Himachal Pradesh. A fully grown snow leopard was sighted at an altitude of 12,500 feet near Kaza in the Spiti Valley of Himachal Pradesh.

Other animals that can be sighted in the wild include the ibex, wild yak, ghoral deer, musk deer, Himalayan black bear, brown bear, leopards and the Himalayan Thar.

Exquisite Ladakh is situated on the northern border of India and is known as Little Tibet or the Roof of the World. A dazzling region, it is here that the elusive snow leopard roams in the high valleys and across jagged mountains cliffs.