{"id":37405,"date":"2025-12-12T12:43:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T06:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=37405"},"modified":"2025-12-12T12:43:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T06:58:18","slug":"19-sheep-killed-in-snow-leopard-attack-in-mustang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/19-sheep-killed-in-snow-leopard-attack-in-mustang\/","title":{"rendered":"19 sheep killed in snow leopard attack in Mustang"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Mustang, Dec 12: Sixteen sheep and three mountain goats were killed in a snow leopard attack nearby Temperate Horticulture Development Centre at Gharpajong-2, Marfa last night.<\/p>\n<p>The Annapurna Conservation Area Project Jomsom has reported that a snow leopard entered the sheep pen of Santosh Pariyar, a local, and killed the sheep.<\/p>\n<p>There were 45 sheep in his farm. 19 sheep among them were killed in the attack by the leopard, informed Rajesh Gupta, head of the ACAP Jomsom office.<\/p>\n<p>The preliminary estimate indicates a loss amounting to Rs 600,000. He shared that representatives from the Annapurna Conservation Area Project Jomsom, and a team from the District Police Office are heading to the incident site.<\/p>\n<p>As reported, conflicts between humans and snow leopards have been increasing visible in the area lately.<\/p>\n<p>During winter, snow leopards search for prey species and come closer to human settlements in lack of grass in grazing areas.<\/p>\n<p>Snow leopards, following their prey, also approach settlements and cause damage to local herders\u2019 livestock.<\/p>\n<p>In the recent times, establishing coexistence between humans and snow leopards has become tricky due to climate change effects.<\/p>\n<p>Citing these reasons, some farmers have started abandoning livestock rearing business in the district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mustang, Dec 12: Sixteen sheep and three mountain goats were killed in a snow leopard attack nearby Temperate Horticulture Development Centre at Gharpajong-2, Marfa last night. The Annapurna Conservation Area Project Jomsom has reported that a snow leopard entered the sheep pen of Santosh Pariyar, a local, and killed the sheep. There were 45 sheep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37408,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37405\/revisions\/37408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}