{"id":87006,"date":"2019-10-24T15:41:41","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T10:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=11159"},"modified":"2019-10-24T15:41:41","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T10:11:41","slug":"snow-leopard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/snow-leopard\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow Leopard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>At the session of Global Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Protection (GSLEP) programme,as many as 12 range countries have come together to begin a massive exercise to get the global count of Snow leopards.This will be the first ever survey by India to assess the population of Snow leopard.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Snow Leopard:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Features:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Snow leopards (Panthera uncial) belong to the family of cats called Felidae.<\/li><li>The snow leopard\u2019s fur is whitish to gray with black spots on head and neck, but larger rosettes on the back, flanks and bushy tail.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Habitat:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Snow leopards are found in 12 range countries namely Afghanistan, Bhutan, China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.China contains as much as 60% of all snow leopard habitat areas.<\/li><li>In India,snow leopards are found in the high altitude areas above the forested areas above 3000m.<\/li><li>The states of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh constitute snow leopard Habitat range in India.<\/li><li>Snow leopard is the State animal of Himachal Pradesh.It is also the National Heritage Animal of Pakistan.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>Conservation Status:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Snow leopards are listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.<\/li><li>They are also listed on Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species (CITES).<\/li><li>Government of India has also identified the snow leopard as a flagship species for the high altitude Himalayas.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Global Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Protection Programme:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It<strong> <\/strong>is a joint initiative of range country governments, international agencies, civil society, and the private sector.<\/li><li>Its goal is to secure the long-term survival of the snow leopard in its natural ecosystem.<\/li><li>It also seeks to address high-mountain development issues using the conservation of the snow leopard as a flagship.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:At the session of Global Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Protection (GSLEP) programme,as many as 12 range countries have come together to begin a massive exercise to get the global count of Snow leopards.This will be the first ever survey by India to assess the population of Snow leopard. Facts: About Snow Leopard: Features:&nbsp;&nbsp; Snow leopards&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/snow-leopard\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Snow Leopard<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4676,4735],"class_list":["post-87006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-snow-leopards","tag-survey","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704834917},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}