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India’s first snow leopard conservation center
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- The Uttarakhand government has decided to open India's first Snow Leopard Conservation Centre.
- It will be built by the Uttarakhand forest department along the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
- It is a part of its six-year long project securing livelihoods, conservation, sustainable use and restoration of high range Himalayan ecosystems (SECURE) Himalayas.
- Snow Leopard is listed under
- Schedule – I of Wildlife Protection Act of India which gives the big cat absolute protection against hunting and poaching.
- “vulnerable” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red list.
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