Srinagar, Dec 13: High above the fault lines of borders and weather, a male ibex stepped into view in Gurez, quiet proof that the Himalayas are still holding life.

Filmed in a sensitive border zone, repeated sightings of Asiatic ibex females with fawns, along with the sighting of the lone male ibex, suggest healthy breeding and stable habitat, strengthening a fragile ecosystem where the near-threatened wild goat underpins the future of apex predators like the snow leopard.

The sighting of a near-threatened Asiatic ibex in the high-altitude Gurez Valley in north Kashmir is being seen by wildlife officials as evidence of healthy breeding and improved habitat conditions in the fragile Himalayan ecosystem.

The wild goat was filmed by a staff member of the Jammu and Kashmir Wildlife Departme

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