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Planet Ark World Environment News - in partnership with Colonial First State Kashmir-Wildlife

Date: 18-Nov-09
Country: INDIAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR
Author: Fayaz Kabli

Kashmir-Wildlife Photo: Fayaz Kabli
Photo: Fayaz Kabli

A leopard rests inside its enclosure in Dachigam national park on the outskirts of Srinagar November 12, 2009.

The wildlife population of Indian Kashmir has registered a "manifold" increase as a two-decade-old separatist rebellion has scared away poachers and hunters from the region, a wildlife official said on Tuesday.

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