23 Oct 2019


Union environment minister Prakash Javadekar on October 23, 2019 released the Snow Leopard Population Assessment (SLPAI) at the fourth steering committee meeting of the Global Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Program (GSLEP).

“We will strive to double the snow leopards population in the world in the coming decade,” he said, commending the two-day conference.

GSLEP is a high-level intergovernmental alliance of 12 snow leopard range countries:

    Russia
    China
    Mongolia
    Kazakhstan
    Kyrgyzstan
    Uzbekistan
    Tajikistan
    India
    Nepal
    Bhutan
    Afghanistan
    Pakistan

In India, snow leopards are found in the Himalayan and trans-himalayan landscape at an elevation between 3,000 meters and 5,400 m, spanning over 100,000 square km across Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh.

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