Rich Wildlife of Jammu, Kashmir & Ladakh Introduction The erstwhile state of Jammu & Kashmir has a special responsibility towards the rest of the country and indeed the world at large. Owing to events that took place as far back as 25 million years, the region has been endowed with a truly unique variety of life forms. These creatures had to adjust to the very special environment created when the break-away island that was to gorm the Indian peninsula met with the Asian mainland in the cataclysm birth of the Himalayas. The mountains, foothills and plain house a zoogeographic diversity ranging from Oriental to Paleractic flora and funa. And it is the conservation of this diversity that is the principal responsibility of the Jammu and Kashmir Department of Wildlife Protection. The animals that are to be protected are, snow leopard (Panthera uncia), the common leopard (Panthera pardus), brown bear (Ursus arctos), the Himaliyan black bear (Selenarctos thibetanus), the ...
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