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Hidden HimalayasA farmer walks her calf back towards the village of Amdi as night approaches. In autumn, darkness can bring
freezing temperatures but that isn’t the only threat to livestock. Loss of animals through snow leopard attacks
has become so bad the Indian government has brought in a scheme to compensate herders. The conflict
between the needs of humans to raise cattle and the needs of predators to survive is never more acute than it is
here in the craggy, inaccessible mountains in winter.
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