Thousands of Pashmina goats, the source of famed shawls and blankets and a mainstay of the local Himalayan economy, have perished in northern India in the some of the heaviest snowfall in decades.

Pashmina goats, from the BBC Web site. Did you all hear how snow is threatening herds of the goats that produce the wool for Pashmina shawls? OPB yesterday picked up a story from the BBC (go here ...

His Pashmina Goat Project brings together more than 8,000 ethnic Changpa goatherds, some 1.5 million of their livestock and about 300,000 weavers into a cooperative whose aim is empowerment.

Wool from pashmina goats reared by nomads in the inhospitable high-altitude cold desert region of Ladakh – a federal territory in India – is the most expensive and coveted cashmere in the world.

Mixed herds of pashmina goats and sheep come back to their homes after grazing for the whole day at Kharnak, Changthang area, Leh, Jammu and Kashmir, India, on Aug. 8, 2015.

As news reports this week told of the deaths of hundreds of Pashmina goats in Indian-administered Kashmir, a top official in the region said thousands of goats are still in danger. Shahnawaz Khan ...

HEAVY snow has killed nearly 25,000 pashmina goats in the Indian Himalayas, threatening supplies of cashmere wool used to make high-end scarves. Deals of the Week. In the know quiz.

GRACE VALLEY, Pakistan – In his two-room wooden house high in the beautiful Grace Valley in Kashmir, Hidayat Ullah weaves at a manual paddle loom. Asked how he learned the craft, he gestures … ...

Pashmina: The Little Christmas Goat Geraldine Elschner, , illus. by Angela Kehlenbeck. . Penguin/ Minedition, $16.99 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-698-40046-7 ...