• Faunal Resources of Renuka Wetland
• Faunal Resources of Pong Dam Wetland
• Faunal Resources of Cold Desert, Ladakh.
• Status survey of Endangered Species: Western Tragopan
• Faunal Resources of Western Himalaya (Himachal Pradesh)
• Faunal Resources of Pin Valley National Park, Lahaul & Spiti (Himachal Pradesh)
• Status of Kiang in Eastern Ladakh, Jammu & Kashmir, India
• Status of Himalayan Marmot in Eastern Ladakh, Jammu & Kashmir, India
• Faunal Resources of Simbalbara Wildlife Sanctuary, district Sirmour
• Faunal Resources of Churdhar Wildlife Sanctuary, district Sirmour
• Faunal Resources of Pangi Valley, district Chamba
• Faunal Resources of Kalatop Wildlife Sanctuary, district Chamba
• Faunal Resources of Cold Deserts of Spiti Valley and Chandertal Lake, district Lahaul & Spiti
• Faunal Resources of Chail Wildlife Sanctuary, district Solan
• Faunal Resources of Sangla Valley, district Kinnaur
• Faunal Resources of Sainj Wildlife Sanctuary, district Kullu

                                  Chail Wild Life sanctuary                                                    Kalatop Wild Life Sanctuary         

Extensive Surveys undertaken in the various Himalayan Ecosystem are:

• Wetland Ecosystem: Renuka Lake, Govind Sagar Dam, Pong Dam, Chandertal Lake, Tsomoriri and Pangong Tso.
• Protected Areas of Himachal Pradesh: Pin Valley National Park, Simbalbara Wildlife Sanctuary, Pong Dam Sanctuary, Kalatop–Khajjiar Wildlife Sanctuary, Churdhar Wildlife Sanctuary, Chail Wildlife Sanctuary.
• Himalyan Ecosystem: Remote Area of Pangi Valley, which is an inaccessible area sandwiched between Pir Panjal and Zanksar range has been explored for the first time.
• Trans Himalayan Ecosystem: Ladakh (J.& K.) (3200 to 5379 m asl) along with various localities in the Indus, Zanskar & Nubra valley and Spiti Valley, district Lahaul & Spiti (H.P.) comprising various alpine habitats (3280 to 5500m asl) has been surveyed to innventorize the faunal wealth of the cold deserts.

                                       Chandertal Lake                                                                                     Pangi valley

                       Tsomorari Brackish Water Lake                                                             Landscape of Ladakh 

The National Zoological Collections maintained at the Centre contain 27,567 identified specimens including both invertebrates and vertebrates. The collection also includes 334 specimens of type material.

                                      
                                                                                                Insect Storage Box

Museum
The museum of the Centre exhibits representative fauna of the North West Himalaya (Himachal Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir) in various showcashes. The LED frames with landscape and fauna of Himalyan Ecosystem has been displayed at the Natural History Museum of the Centre for generating awareness and interest towards biodiversity and conservation among children and general public. The Faunal Himalayan Repository Building has been sanctioned for the Centre and it will be one of its unique kinds in North India.

New Species/ New Records
Scientists of the Centre have described 12 genera and 50 species (termatode, earthworms and insects) as new to the science in addition to report of 11 species (earthworms and insects) being first record from India.
Status Survey
The status survey of the High altitude Mammals viz. Western Tragopan in India, Kiang Equus kiang in Eastern Ladakh, India, Himalayan Marmot Marmota Himalayan in Eastern Ladakh, Jammu & Kashmir, India have been undertaken from the Centre.
Surveys
The inventorization of the fauna of the cold deserts of Pin Valley National Park and surroundings, Chandratal and Kibber Wildlife Sancturary, which is the 16th Biosphere Reserve in India included in the World Network of Biosphere recognized by UNESCO-Man and Biosphere Programme.
Environment Impact assessment Studies
Centre has carried out Environment Impact Assessment studies (EIA) of the Salal Dam Project on Chenab River in Jammu and Kashmir, and Beas Satluj Link Project in Himachal Pradesh.

                               Himalayan Marmot in Ladakh                                                   Tibetan Ass (Kiang) in Ladakh

1. The National training Workshop on “Fauna of Hotspot-2: Western Himalaya” has been conducted in the Centre from July 24-28, 2015.
2. Lectures and presentation on various aspects allied to faunal diversity and its conservation are organized during various programmes to the students of colleges, university teachers by the scientists of the centre.
3. The scientists of the Centre participate in national and international conferences, seminars, workshops and deliver presentation, invited talk as resource person and chair the scientific sessions.
4. As resource person, scientists of the Centre are recognized for evaluating research project proposals for Ministry of Science & Technology, reviewing research papers for various national and international journals, acting as practical examiner for degree courses in zoology and evaluating dissertations for M.Phil and Ph.D. degrees for several colleges and universities. The centre is also supervising the Ph.D scholars.
5. The Identification, advisory and library services are rendered to universities, research institutes, State forest department, agricultural departments of the state/central government and individual research workers.

The taxonomic expertise on Mammals, Birds, Fishes, insects (Lepidoptera, Orthoptera) and earthworms are available presently at the Centre.

                           Blue Sheep                                                                                        Snow Pigeon

  

                     Paranassius charltonius                                                                          Black necked Crane

  

                                     Locust                                                                                                       Mahseer

The Centre is equipped with Compact Insect Storage System. The major recent additions to the Centre includes Leica 205A automated stereomicroscope with attached high definition CCD camera and montage software and Advanced Research Microscope along with high speed (XT Core 3- Jenptic Germany) camera.

                                     
                                                                          Leica 205A automated Stereomicroscope