From the IUCN Red List Species Account:

Range Description

This species is known from Qinghai, Gansu and Sichuan Provinces in China, from 3,300-4,500m asl. Specimens originally reported from Pakistan and the Kashmir region have been allocated to other taxa.

Habitat and Ecology

It lives and breeds in alpine marshes, pools, ponds and streams in open high-altitude habitats.

Population

It is thought to be quite common, although one population has undergone a decline over the past five years in apparently suitable habitat.

Population Trend

Decreasing

Major Threats

A major threat to this species is habitat destruction and degradation caused by over-grazing by livestock. The reasons for the recent rapid decline of one population in an apparently suitable habitat are not known. Climate change might be a factor and can be considered a threat now and in the future.

Conservation Actions

Several protected areas are present within the range of this species. Chytridiomycosis cannot be ruled out as a cause of the recent decline, and this should be investigated.

Taxonomic Notes

Specimens collected in Pakistan by Annandale (1917) and assigned to Rana pleskei (= Nanorana pleskei) were allocated to Scutiger occidentalis (= S. nyingchiensis) by Dubois (1978, 1987). The Kashmir specimen reported by Mertens (1969), is referable to R. vicina (= Paa vicina) (Dubois and Khan 1979). Other reports of N. pleskei in Pakistan and Kashmir are references to the above collections that have now been allocated to other species.

Citation

Wang Yuezhao, Annemarie Ohler, Muhammad Sharif Khan, Xie Feng 2004. Nanorana pleskei. In: IUCN 2012