J. Bio. & Env. Sci. 2015 31 | Din et al. RESEARCH PAPER OPEN ACCESS Population assessment of Himalayan lynx (Lynx lynx isabellinus) and conflict with humans in the Hindu Kush mountain range of District Chitral, Pakistan Jaffar Ud Din¹, Fridolin Zimmermann², Muhammad Ali 3 , Khurshid Ali Shah¹, Muhammad Ayub¹, Siraj Khan¹, Muhammad Ali Nawaz¹ , 4* 1 Snow Leopard Foundation, House 71 C, Street 54, E-11/3, Islamabad, Pakistan 2 KORA, Thunstrasse 31, CH-3074 Muri, Bern, Switzerland 3 Wildlife Department, Shami Road, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan 4 Department of Animal Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan Key words: Camera trap, Chitral, Human-lynx interaction, Lynx lynx isabellinus, Protected area. Article published on February 01, 2015 Abstract This paper is the first-ever attempt to outline the interaction of Himalayan lynx (Lynx lynx isabellinus) with humans and its abundance measured through motion triggered camera traps in Hindu Kush Mountain Range of District Chitral, Pakistan. The study was undertaken in December-January, 2011 for a period of 35 days with a total trap days of 770 resulting the corroboration of the sporadic occurrence of lynx with a minimum population estimate of 6 individuals. High capture rate of human and livestock (90% of the total photos) exposes the immense human induced pressure on this fragile mountain ecosystem and ascribable to the dwindling population of the species in the region. Majority of the respondents (n=166: 90%) reckoned lynx as the rare species. Human acceptance of lynx was lower owing to the predation on livestock and thus was taken more dangerous with perceived danger per respondent of 35.77%. Although protected areas provide suitable habitat for the conservation of species but the non-capture of lynx in the buffer zone highly suggestive that sound conservation measures are required to inflate the survival of the species outside the protected areas in the longer run. *Corresponding Author: Muhammad Ali Nawaz  ali.nawaz@slf.org.pk Journal of Biodiversity and Environmental Sciences (JBES) ISSN: 2220-6663 (Print), 2222-3045 (Online) http://www.innspub.net Vol. 6, No. 2, p. 31-39, 2015