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J&K denies mass deaths of Himalayan goats

Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir government has denied reports that 600 rare Himalayan goats — famed for their Pashmina wool — perished and thousands face starvation after their desert habitat was blanketed with snow during the region’s worst snowfall in three decades.

Disputing the reports of mass scale deaths of Himalayan Goats, the Leh MLA and J&K Minister for Industries and Commerce, Nawang Rigzin Jora, said that his local sources had confirmed that nothing of that sort had occurred in the Ladakh region. Deaths are common every year but there were no deaths on a mass scale.

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