Showing posts with label Hangul. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hangul. Show all posts

Friday, June 3, 2011

Recent Census Kindles Hope for Endangered Hangul

Hope has kindled for the survival of the nearly extinct Kashmir antelope ‘Hangul’.  The preliminary findings of the census of Hangul conducted in Kashmir in March 2011 have shown an increase in their numbers.  The state Forest Minister Mian Altaf Ahmad while reviewing the conservation of Hangul in Srinagar recently revealed that census report of the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) has put the number of Hanguls at 218 in Dachigam and adjoining areas.