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Nepal's red panda in peril from yaks.
(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)
Kathmandu Post via Kantipuronline.com web site on 13 April
Langtang National Park, Rasuwa, 12 April: The yummy yak cheese is not so tasty to the red panda inhabiting Langtang National Park.
As the demand for yak cheese among foreigners and city dwellers increases, the encroachment of yaks in the Cholangpati area near Gosainkund also rises. As a result, a steady decrease in the number of Nepal's red panda population has been observed. There are about only 300 red pandas left in the wild, of which a significant number of the endangered, shy mammal (a small bear-like animal) is found in Gosainkund area.
The increased number of yaks has increased the movement of people as well as their yak herding dogs, which is scaring away the red panda (Ailurus Fulgens) from its natural habitat.
The barking dogs, movement of yak-herders and the more than 600 yaks, kept in 32 sheds in the area have been forcing this gentle creature to desert its habitat. In moments of extreme fear mother pandas even forsake their young.
"Except for mother pandas with small cubs, found under tree hollow and crevices in rocks, the red panda leads a solitary life among the trees. Even the mother leaves her cubs if she hears any strange sound or senses danger," said Megh Bahadur Pandey, chief conservation officer of the Langtang National Park (LNP).
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