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The Green Kashmir Initiative

The Green Kashmir Initiative

Bassam Lone

Welcome to Green Kashmir Initiative, a podcast dedicated to conversations on ecology, climate, sustainability, and development in the Kashmir Valley. Through conversations with scientists, policymakers, conservationists, and local communities, we explore how retreating glaciers, disappearing wetlands, and a warming climate are reshaping the region — and what it will take to build a future that is both resilient and equitable. Each episode brings together scholarship from different fields to promote an informed and inclusive conversation about conservation and sustainability in Kashmir.

4 - EP 4: Finding the Lost Snow Leopard: A Himalayan Adventure
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  • 4 - EP 4: Finding the Lost Snow Leopard: A Himalayan Adventure

    What can one elusive snow leopard tell us about an entire Himalayan ecosystem?
    In this episode of The Green Kashmir Initiative, we sit down with Dr Munib Khanyari (@munibkhanyari ), wildlife researcher and conservation scientist at the Nature Conservation Foundation (@ncf.india ), to explore The Lost Snow Leopard: A Himalayan Adventure — a book created with Nirupa Rao (@niruparao) and Prasenjeet Yadav (@prasen.yadav ).
    We talk about what it takes to study one of the world’s most elusive big cats, how the search for snow leopards becomes a narrative in 'The Lost Snow Leopard', and what Burfila, the protagonist, can reveal about Himalayan ecosystems and the biodiversity thriving in them.
    As climate change reshapes mountain environments, wildlife habitats and human–animal relationships, we also give space to thinking about what the future holds for the snow leopard — and for the ecosystems it represents.Sources:

    1. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2688-8319.70155

    2.

    https://www.ncf-india.org/high-altitudes/finding-the-ghosts-snow-leopard-density-and-distribution-in-the-multi-use-region-of-jammu-and-kashmir-india


    3. Link to buy the book: https://champaca.in/products/the-lost-snow-leopard-a-himalayan-adventure

    Tue, 22 Sep 2026 - 58min
  • 3 - EP 3: From Sound to Biodiversity: Using AI to Monitor the Natural World

    What if we could understand the health of an ecosystem by listening to it?
    Birdsong, insect calls, animal movements, and the rhythms of a forest contain an enormous amount of information about the natural world. But how do we make sense of sounds that are unknown or too complex?
    In this episode of The Green Kashmir Initiative, we speak with Dr. Burooj Ghani (@sighingquark ), a computer scientist and scientific researcher at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, The Netherlands, whose work sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence, machine learning, biodiversity and bioacoustics.
    We explore how AI is learning to recognise animal sounds, what birdsong can reveal about an ecosystem, why transferring AI models across different ecosystems is challenging, and how Kaetij (@_kaetij ), as a platform, seeks to make the hidden relationships within natural soundscapes visible in Kashmir.
    From computer science to the sounds of the wild, this conversation asks:
    If an ecosystem could speak, what could its sounds tell us about its health?

    For more information, check out the following sources:


    https://kaetij.com/

    https://bghani.github.io/

    Sun, 13 Sep 2026 - 1h 05min
  • 2 - EP 2: From Wular to Khushalsar: Kashmir's Changing Waters

    In this episode, we sit down with Wahid Bhat (@talesofwahid ), award-winning environmental journalist and Environmental Editor at Ground Report, who has been reporting on Kashmir’s environment and climate change since 2018.
    From Anchar and Wular to Khushalsar, Wahid takes us into the stories he has encountered on the ground — the shrinking of water bodies, changing fishing livelihoods, pollution and degradation, and the ways communities experience these changes in their everyday lives.
    We also talk about cloudbursts and extreme weather in Kashmir: what happens when these events strike, which communities are most vulnerable, and what years of reporting can reveal about the changing relationship between Kashmir’s water bodies and the livelihoods they sustained.

    Tue, 08 Sep 2026 - 1h 07min
  • 1 - EP 1: What the Kashmiri Himalayan Gray Langur can tell us about Kashmir

    In the first episode of The Green Kashmir Initiative, we speak with Dr. Mehreen Khalil (@mehreen_khaleel), wildlife researcher and founder of the Wildlife Research and Conservation Foundation.
    Beginning with her research on the Kashmiri Himalayan Gray Langur at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, we explore what studying a single species can reveal about the wider ecosystem it inhabits — and how those ecosystems are changing.
    Our conversation moves through primate feeding behaviour, survival strategies, changing ecosystems, human–animal conflict, and the role of conservation education in combating some of these changes.
    What happens to an animal when its environment changes? And what might those changes tell us about the landscapes we inhabit ourselves?
    Episode 1 — What does the Kashmiri Himalayan Gray Langur tell us about Kashmir?
    with Dr. Mehreen Khalil


    For more information about the episode:


    1. https://www.rufford.org/projects/mehreen-khaleel/distribution-ecology-and-habitat-use-of-the-himalayan-gray-langur-semnopithecus-ajax-in-jammu-and-kashmir-india/

    2. https://www.instagram.com/wildlife.research.conservation/

    3. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mehreen-Khaleel-2

    Fri, 28 Aug 2026 - 1h 08min

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