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- Darjeeling zoo now has the world’s largest number of snow leopards in captivity — 14 in total with 7 males and 7 females.
- Among them, there are six cubs from three mothers.
- This is the highest since the launch of the breeding programme at Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park (PNHZP), also commonly known as Darjeeling Zoo.
- Snow leopards are in the “vulnerable” category of the International Union for Conservation of Nature or IUCN “Red List of Threatened Species”.
- Its estimated global population is 4,000 to 7,500.
- The conservation breeding programme for snow leopards, the first and the only in the country, was launched at Darjeeling Zoo in 1985.
- Four years later in 1989, the Conservation Breeding Centre (CBC), which is currently spread across five hectares at Topkeydara, recorded the first birth of a snow leopard.
- Since then, 77 snow leopards have been born in the zoo.
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