Munib Khanyari

Programme Manager, High Altitudes

PhD in Biological Sciences from Bristol University, UK. Post-Doc ICTA-UAB, Spain.

Munib Khanyari is an interdisciplinary researcher working at the interface of pastoral livelihoods and wildlife conservation. Munib is working towards more participatory and inclusive forms of co-inquiry with local communities such that we can meaningfully co-design conservation interventions that are contextually appropriate. Alongside, Munib is interested in understanding population ecology of high altitude mammals, in particular mountain ungulates and their predators such as snow leopards and wolves.

Projects

Publications

Status of Snow Leopard in Himachal Pradesh

Report

2025

Status of Snow Leopard in Himachal Pradesh

Journal Article

2025

Towards transformative justice in conservation finance: The case for Basic Income for Nature and Climate (BINC)

Imagining Changthang 2050: Ladakh Restoration Visioning Exercise 2025. Leh, Ladakh

Report

2025

Imagining Changthang 2050: Ladakh Restoration Visioning Exercise 2025. Leh, Ladakh

Journal Article

2025

Restoration in the Western Himalaya: a systematic review of current efforts and implications for the future

Tracking Snow Leopards in High Himalayas

Popular Article

2025

Tracking Snow Leopards in High Himalayas

Understanding the
Ecological Characteristics
of Habitat Types across Changthang

Report

2025

Understanding the Ecological Characteristics of Habitat Types across Changthang

Status of Snow Leopards
and other High-Altitude Mammals in Kishtwar Himalayas, Jammu and Kashmir

Report

2025

Status of Snow Leopards and other High-Altitude Mammals in Kishtwar Himalayas, Jammu and Kashmir

Encounter rates and active nests of raptors in the Indian Trans-Himalaya: Towards a long-term monitoring program

Journal Article

2024

Encounter rates and active nests of raptors in the Indian Trans-Himalaya: Towards a long-term monitoring program

Can livestock grazing dampen density-dependent fluctuations in wild herbivore populations?

Journal Article

2024

Can livestock grazing dampen density-dependent fluctuations in wild herbivore populations?

First Photographic Evidence of Pallas’s Cat (Otocolobus manul) from Himachal Pradesh, India

Journal Article

2024

First Photographic Evidence of Pallas’s Cat (Otocolobus manul) from Himachal Pradesh, India

Journal Article

2024

Snow leopards or solar parks? Reconciling wildlife conservation and green energy development in the high Himalaya

Journal Article

2024

Participatory’ conservation research involving indigenous peoples and local communities: Fourteen principles for good practice

Camera trapping survey for snow leopard provides first photographic record of Woolly Flying Squirrel from Kishtwar Himalayas, India

Journal Article

2024

Camera trapping survey for snow leopard provides first photographic record of Woolly Flying Squirrel from Kishtwar Himalayas, India

Predicting and reducing potential parasite infection between migratory livestock and resident Asiatic ibex of Pin valley, India

Journal Article

2024

Predicting and reducing potential parasite infection between migratory livestock and resident Asiatic ibex of Pin valley, India

A new dawn? Population baselines of snow leopards and other mammals of the Kishtwar High Altitude National
Park, India

Journal Article

2024

A new dawn? Population baselines of snow leopards and other mammals of the Kishtwar High Altitude National Park, India

Sustainable Development in the High Mountains - The Case of Ladakh Pashmina

Journal Article

2024

Sustainable Development in the High Mountains - The Case of Ladakh Pashmina

Balancing making a difference with making a living in the conservation 
sector

Journal Article

2021

Balancing making a difference with making a living in the conservation sector

Predicting Parasite Dynamics in Mixed-Use Trans-Himalayan Pastures to Underpin Management of Cross-Transmission Between Livestock and Bharal

Journal Article

2021

Predicting Parasite Dynamics in Mixed-Use Trans-Himalayan Pastures to Underpin Management of Cross-Transmission Between Livestock and Bharal

Identifying relationships between multi-scale social–ecological factors to explore ungulate health in a Western Kazakhstan rangeland

Journal Article

2021

Identifying relationships between multi-scale social–ecological factors to explore ungulate health in a Western Kazakhstan rangeland

The forgotten mountain monarch? Understanding conservation status
of the vulnerable Ladakh Urial in India

Journal Article

2021

The forgotten mountain monarch? Understanding conservation status of the vulnerable Ladakh Urial in India

Estimating snow leopard and prey populations at large spatial
scales

Journal Article

2021

Estimating snow leopard and prey populations at large spatial scales

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Journal Article

2021

A Need for Context-Based Conservation: Incorporating Local Knowledge to Mitigate Livestock Predation by Large Carnivores

Photo: Munib Khanyari

Journal Article

2021

Building an ecologically founded disease risk prioritization framework for migratory wildlife species based on contact with livestock

Understanding population baselines: status of mountain ungulate populations in the Central Tien
Shan Mountains, Kyrgyzstan.

Journal Article

2020

Understanding population baselines: status of mountain ungulate populations in the Central Tien Shan Mountains, Kyrgyzstan.

Population assessment of the Endangered Nilgiri tahr Nilgiritragus hylocrius in the Anamalai Tiger Reserve, using the double-observer survey method

Journal Article

2020

Population assessment of the Endangered Nilgiri tahr Nilgiritragus hylocrius in the Anamalai Tiger Reserve, using the double-observer survey method

Sampling bias in snow leopard population estimation studies

Journal Article

2019

Sampling bias in snow leopard population estimation studies



Population assessment of the Nilgiri tahr (Nilgiritragus hylocrius) using
the Double-observer Survey method in the Anamalai Tiger Reserve

Report

2018

Population assessment of the Nilgiri tahr (Nilgiritragus hylocrius) using the Double-observer Survey method in the Anamalai Tiger Reserve