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3. What is the difference between the people of the Sahara and Ladakh?
4. What type of climate do you find in the Sahara?

5. Compare the climates of the Sahara Desert and Ladakh.
6. Describe the locations of Ladakh region.

1. Can economic development in desert areas could reduce population pressure in the more fertile
regions?
2. Life for natives is tough in the Sahara Desert. Explain.

Bactrian Camel

Dromedary in Rajasthan and Bactrian in Ladakh seem like twins separated at
birth. It is the number of humps that distinguish these camels. The one-hump
camel is found in hot deserts whereas the double-humps inhabit high-altitude,
cold-desert regions.
Following the closure of the silk route in 1950, few Bactrian were left in the tri-
armed Nubra valley in Ladakh. At one time during the early 1980s, less than a
dozen such camels were reported from the valley.
Far from becoming extinct, the numbers of the species have indeed gone up. At last count, early this
year, 211 animals were found in the valley. The camel population is the largest in Hunder village,
followed by Sumoor, Diskit and Tigger. According to a recent report in Current Science, the National
Research Centre on Camel has observed an increasing trend in the population of double-hump camels,
signalling favourably for the conservation of this rare species.

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