TNPSC Thervupettagam

Snow Leopard habitats

May 21 , 2021 1285 days 1042 0
  • The World Wildlife Fund recently claimed that more than 70% of snow Leopard habitats are unexplored.
  • This was according to its report “A spatially explicit review of the state of knowledge in the snow leopard range”.
  • Most of the snow leopard researches have been conducted by Nepal, India and China followed by Mongolia and Pakistan.
  • There could be only four thousand snow leopards left in the world.
  • They are facing continuous threats due to increased habitat loss and degradation, conflict with communities and poaching.
  • In India, snow leopards are found in Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir.
  • Government is running Project Snow Leopard since 2009.

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