Charudutt Mishra

Scientist, High Altitudes

Ph.D. Ecology and Resource Conservation, Wageningen University M.Sc. Wildlife Sciences, Wildlife Institute of India

Charudutt Mishra is the Science and Conservation Director of the Snow Leopard Trust, responsible for guiding research and conservation programmes in snow leopard range countries of Asia. He also serves as the Executive Director of the Snow Leopard Network, a worldwide organization of leading snow leopard experts and over 500 member individuals and institutions. Charu is a Founder Trustee of the Nature Conservation Foundation. He serves on the editorial boards of the journals Animal Conservation and Oryx, on the winner selection panel of the Whitley Awards, and is a member of the IUCN’s Cat Specialist Group. Charu has a Ph.D. in Ecology and Natural Resource Conservation from the Resource Ecology Group, Wageningen University (The Netherlands), MSc degree in Wildlife Sciences from the Wildlife Institute of India, and BSc. in Zoology from the University of Delhi (India).

Projects

Publications

Journal Article

In press

Serow Nemorhaedus sumatraensis

Journal Article

In press

Goral Nemorhaedus goral

Vertebrate species richness in the 395 forest ranges in the Western Ghats

Journal Article

2022

Using interview surveys and multispecies occupancy models to inform vertebrate conservation

Factors affecting the spatial distribution and co-occurrence of two sympatric mountain ungulates in southern Mongolia

Journal Article

2021

Factors affecting the spatial distribution and co-occurrence of two sympatric mountain ungulates in southern Mongolia

Understanding People’s Relationship With Wildlife in Trans-Himalayan Folklore

Journal Article

2021

Understanding People’s Relationship With Wildlife in Trans-Himalayan Folklore

Spatial variation in population-density of snow leopards in a multiple use landscape in Spiti Valley, Trans-Himalaya.

Journal Article

2021

Spatial variation in population-density of snow leopards in a multiple use landscape in Spiti Valley, Trans-Himalaya.

Estimating snow leopard and prey populations at large spatial
scales

Journal Article

2021

Estimating snow leopard and prey populations at large spatial scales

Snow Leopard Population
Assessment in India

Report

2021

Snow Leopard Population Assessment in India

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.

Conservation and people: Towards an ethical code of conduct for the use of camera traps in wildlife research.

Journal Article

2020

Conservation and people: Towards an ethical code of conduct for the use of camera traps in wildlife research.

Keeping predators out: testing fences to reduce livestock depredation at night-time corrals.

Journal Article

2020

Keeping predators out: testing fences to reduce livestock depredation at night-time corrals.

Grazing and climate change have site-dependent interactive effects on vegetation in Asian montane rangelands

Journal Article

2020

Grazing and climate change have site-dependent interactive effects on vegetation in Asian montane rangelands

Relative influence of wild prey and livestock abundance on carnivore-caused livestock predation.

Journal Article

2020

Relative influence of wild prey and livestock abundance on carnivore-caused livestock predation.

Ecosystem service dependence in livestock and crop-based production
systems in Asia's high mountains.

Journal Article

2020

Ecosystem service dependence in livestock and crop-based production systems in Asia's high mountains.

Journal Article

2020

Beyond conflict: exploring the spectrum of human–wildlife interactions and their underlying mechanisms

Journal Article

2020

Understanding people’s responses toward predators in the Indian Himalaya

Journal Article

2020

Grazing and climate change have site-dependent interactive effects on vegetation in Asian montane rangelands

Journal Article

2020

Keeping predators out: testing fences to reduce livestock depredation at night-time corrals

Changing use of ecosystem services along a rural-urban continuum in the Indian Trans-Himalayas

Journal Article

2019

Changing use of ecosystem services along a rural-urban continuum in the Indian Trans-Himalayas

Sampling bias in snow leopard population estimation studies

Journal Article

2019

Sampling bias in snow leopard population estimation studies

A stupa built at the site of a wolf trap in Changthang

Journal Article

2018

Local community neutralizes traditional wolf traps and builds a stupa

Book Chapter

2018

Large Carnivore and Conservation and Management

Journal Article

2017

The value of ecosystem services in the high altitude Spiti Valley, Indian Trans-Himalaya

Journal Article

2017

Impact of wild prey availability on livestock predation by snow leopards. 

Two snow leopards walking

Dataset

2017

Data from: Assessing changes in distribution of the endangered snow leopard Panthera uncia and its wild prey over 2 decades in the Indian Himalaya through interview-based occupancy surveys.

Dataset

2017

Data from: Impact of wild prey availability on livestock predation by snow leopards

Report

2017

Valuation of Ecosystem Services in Snow Leopard Landscapes of Asia

Journal Article

2017

Assessing changes in distribution of the Endangered snow leopard Panthera uncia and its wild prey over 2 decades in the Indian Himalaya through interviewbased occupancy surveys

Data from: Response of the red fox to expansion of human habitation in the Trans-Himalayan mountains

Dataset

2016

Data from: Response of the red fox to expansion of human habitation in the Trans-Himalayan mountains

A group of male Ibex

Dataset

2015

Status of the mountain ungulate prey of the Endangered snow leopard Panthera uncia in the Tost Local Protected Area, South Gobi, Mongolia

Dataset

2014

Multiscale factors affecting human attitudes toward snow leopards and wolves. Dryad Digital Repository.

Journal Article

2003

Discovery of the leaf deer Muntiacus putaoensis in Arunachal Pradesh: an addition to the large mammals of India.