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Cover Story
An eye witness account of a tiger sighted in Kosi river corridor, Uttarakhand
   
 What's On The Ground
Thriving tigers bode well in Kosi river corridor
Nandhor valley springs pleasant surprises
Melanistic leopard and bengal tiger camera trapped in Kaziranga National Park
Elusive snow leopard camera trapped in Kargil district
The Elusive Snow Leopard
 Meet The Team
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Debmalya Roy Choudhary had known from a young age that he would tread the less taken path of working for wildlife conservation.
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The Indian house sparrow (Passer domesticus indicus), once the most commonly seen bird in urban areas, is rarely sighted in cities today.
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Species & Landscapes
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Dear Nature Lover,
This issue opens with an eye witness account of a tiger sighted by our field team in the Kosi river corridor in Uttarakhand. Just a few weeks after, camera trap images revealed the presence of at least 13 more tigers in this corridor. Next, read about the unique wildlife captured on camera in Nandhor valley. Travel to Assam’s Kaziranga National Park to read about the rare melanistic leopard captured on camera in the Karbi-Anglong corridor. From the Kargil district of Jammu and Kashmir, we bring to you first time documented images through camera traps of two adult snow leopards, read about this unique find, and enjoy a short film of the images. In the end, please consider supporting our work financially by clicking the donate button.
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Species and Landscapes Team
An eye witness account of a tiger sighted in Kosi river corridor, Uttarakhand

It was almost 11 o’ clock forenoon of 31 October, 2011. We were about to reach one of the camera trap points along River Kosi, where WWF-India has been conducting the Kosi Corridor Monitoring Study for past two months. Just after crossing the river bed, a team member screamed out “Sir, tiger-tiger.”
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Thriving tigers bode well in Kosi river corridor
A few weeks after the first eyewitness photo documentation of a wild tiger crossing the Kosi River corridor our team has collected camera trap photo evidence of the corridor being used by at least 13 tigers!
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Melanistic leopard and bengal tiger camera trapped in Kaziranga National Park
For the first time ever, WWF-India's camera traps in the Kaziranga Karbi Anglong corridor captured a picture of a melanistic leopard cat. More good news followed as the field team retrieved the image of a bengal tiger, indicating the active use of the corridor by wildlife.
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Elusive snow leopard camera trapped in Kargil district
Two adult snow leopards have been identified from pictures captured using infrared camera traps in the district by WWF-India’s field team led by researcher Mr. Aishwarya Maheshwari, a few kilometres from the line of control separating India from its neighbour Pakistan.
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The Elusive Snow Leopard

Here is footage made from the first ever camera trap images of a snow leopard (Uncia uncia) taken a few kilometres from the Line Of Control (LOC) in Kargil (J&K), India. Two adult snow leopards were identified from pictures captured in Feb. 2012 using infrared cameras. This clip shows one of them.
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