Conservation policies have impacted historical mobile pastoralism in the Kanchenjunga– Singalila landscape, with policy regimes in the Darjeeling district of West Bengal, Sikkim, and the adjoining districts in eastern Nepal causing varied challenges. Today, only remnants of a once widespread practice exist in pockets of this region. Access to traditional grazing areas, migration pathways and markets have been curtailed or significantly reduced. A particular form of mobile pastoralism and a culture have almost been destroyed.