The urial has roamed the high mountains of Asia since the Ice Age, but recent climate changes, new developments, competition with livestock, and other shifts are testing its survival skills. Will this monarch of the mountains survive the challenges we throw at it?
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Sustain Team
We are a driven group of people from diverse backgrounds, bound by an abiding love for India’s natural world.
Imran Frozen
is a filmmaker, photographer and naturalist based in the Himalayas. He is lucky to have captured rare footage of the Eurasian lynx, Pallas’ cat, Himalayan brown bear and the snow leopard.
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Updated: Sep 26, 2023
Published: Mar 27, 2020
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