As per the data, from April 2016 to May 2018, the conflict(s) were reported in all 10 districts in the Kashmir Valley. Shopian district reported the most incidents, 39% of sightings, with Kupwara and Anantnag following at 32% and 24%, respectively.

With no end to Man-Animal conflict incidents in Kashmir, fear is smearing among the local population in the Nichama area of Handwara in frontier district Kupwara, after a leopard attack on Monday claimed another life, the second in a span of two months.

At least, 248 people have been killed, and 2,983 injured, by wild animals since 2006 in Kashmir. In the Year 2022/23 at least 13 people were killed and more than 118 injured.