Mongolia emphasises snow leopard protection
The events, organised by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Mongolia, took place in Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia.
The events, organised by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Mongolia, took place in Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia.
Since 2014, there has been an increase in the population of big cats in India, with the tiger count increasing by 33 per cent from 2,226 in 2014 to 2,967 in 2018.
He welcomed the Indian Defence Industry, DRDO, DPSUs, Academia, HQ IDS, Army HQ, HQ ARTRAC, other Commands and Cat A Ests that are participating in the seminar.
The event was coordinated and conducted by Dr Kumar MK, Conservator of Forests, Regional Wildlife Warden Jammu.
Principal Secretary, Forest & Environment Pawan Kotwal has issued a formal order declaring the state animal and state bird of the newly carved out UT.
They found that if the planet heats by over three degrees, then a third of endemic species living on land, and about half of endemic species living in the sea, face extinction.
Different research reports indicate the presence of 86 snow leopards in Uttarakhand.
The six-eight-month-old wild animal is housed at the animal quarantine centre in Himalayan Nature Park at Kufri, 18 kilometres away from state capital Shimla for last two days.
In India the five Himalayan states, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh, are the abode of snow leopard.
Wildlife experts have many a times expressed concern on the issue of interference of human beings in the habitat of snow leopard.
