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Good shepherd: Tsering Dorjai
| Photo Credit:
Stanzin Dorjai
The sole shepherdess of Gya village spends 11 months a year alone with her flock high in the desolate mountains of Ladakh
Last month Khenrab Phuntsog, wildlife guard at Hemis National Park in Ladakh, received a frantic telephone call. Could he urgently visit Gya, a remote village in Ladakh, and help the caller catch a couple of wild wolves that had attacked her sheep? The wolves had already killed four sheep in the last three days, the caller said.
So Phuntsog immediately set off with his colleague and reached Gya by late evening. And it was not hard to locate the house of the caller, Tsering Dorjai. She is after all the only herdswoman in the village and everyone knows her.