Higher altitudes beckon more wildlife in Nepal amid warmer climes

Experts and independent studies have assessed warming temperatures could be a contributory factor for movement of animals and insects towards higher altitudes.

Indra Dhara Bista remembers his childhood winters being biting cold. From December to February, the thatched roof of his home in Jomsom, a village in Gharapjhong Rural Municipality in Mustang district, would be blanketed by thick, white snow. Livestock would be kept indoors throughout the season; fed stored, sun-dried hay. When the temperature dipped too low, his family would be compelled to migrate down to lower elevation.