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A view of the first shandong - a traditional wolf trap - that was neutralised in June 2018 in Ladakh's Chushul valley.
PHOTO: KARMA SONAM
KOCHI - Until about six years back, livestock herder Tashi Phuntsog had an adversarial relationship with wolves.
Like others in Ladakh, a mountainous region in northern India, he would trap these predators in specially designed conical pits known as shandongs and stone them to death - a traditional practice among herders here to protect their livestock and for which they were even feted.
