Farmers face leopard attacks, compensation hurdles

Troubled by snow leopards as the climate warms, mountain dwellers say the government is apathetic to their plight.

Til Bahadur Pariyar, a resident of Marpha in ward 2 of Gharapjhong Rural Municipality in the mountain district of Mustang, complained that snow leopards killed 60 of his mountain goats over the last three years.