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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.
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