The 2022-2023 National Snow Leopard Survey, inotsigirwa neBhutan For Life initiative uye WWF-Bhutan, yakaratidza kuwedzera kunoshamisa kwe39.5% muhuwandu hweingwe dzechando zvichienzaniswa neongororo yekutanga yakaitwa muna 2016.
Ongororo yakazara yakashandisa yekucheka-kumucheto kamera yekuteya tekinoroji. Yakafukidza 9,000 square kilometers yekugara kwechando ingwe muBhutan (kuchamhembe kweBhutan).
Ongororo iyi yakawana 134 ingwe dzechando muBhutan, inosimuka kubva muhuwandu hwe2016 hwe96 vanhu. Izvi zvinoratidza kubudirira kweBhutan kuchengetedza zvirongwa uye kuzvipira kuchengetedza nzvimbo dzechando ingwe.
Pamusoro pezvo, ongororo iyi yakaratidza mutsauko mukuwanda kwembada dzechando muBhutan munzvimbo dzakasiyana siyana. Western Bhutan yaive nepamusoro-soro density yeidzi katsi hombe dzisinganzwisisike. Musiyano wedunhu uyu unoratidza kukosha kwemaitiro ekuchengetedza ega kuti atsigire kukura kuri kuita ingwe yechando.
Chimwe chezvakawanikwa muongororo iyi kwaive kuzivikanwa kwembada dzechando munzvimbo dzisina kurekodhwa dzakaita seBumdeling Wildlife Sanctuary uye nzvimbo dzakaderera dziri pedyo neDivisional Forest Office muThimphu. Uku kuwedzera kwenzvimbo dzavanogara kunozivikanwa kunosimbisa chinzvimbo chakakosha cheBhutan senhare yezvisikwa izvi zviri mungozi.
Nenzvimbo dzayo dzakawanda uye dzakakodzera mbada yechando pamwe chete nemiganhu yayo ne India (Sikkim neArunachal Pradesh) neChina (Tibetan Plateau), Bhutan yakamisikidzwa kushanda senzvimbo yakakosha yehuwandu hwembada dzechando mudunhu iri.
IUCN Red List inoronga ingwe yechando se“Inokuvadzwa,” zvichiratidza kuti pasina nhamburiko dzokuchengetedza, rudzi urwu rwakaisvonaka rwuri pangozi yokutsakatika munguva pfupi iri kutevera.
Bhutan yakagadza matanho ekudzivirira ingwe dzechando, ichidziisa seChirongwa I pasi peSango uye Nature Conservation Act 2023, apo zviito zvisiri pamutemo kwavari zvinobatwa sechina-degree felonies. Ongororo iyi yakapa muono wakakosha mukudyidzana kwembada dzechando nedzimwe mhuka hombe dzinodya nyama, kusanganisira ingwe nembada dzakajairika.
Uyezve, yakaisa rekodhi yemhando itsva kunze kwembada dzechando muBhutan nekubata White-lipped deer / Thorold's deer (Cervus albirostris) muDivisional Forest Office muParo.
