{"id":87335,"date":"2020-08-08T17:45:10","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T12:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=16787"},"modified":"2020-08-08T17:45:10","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T12:15:10","slug":"uttarakhand-maharashtra-had-highest-leopard-poaching-in-india-traffic-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/uttarakhand-maharashtra-had-highest-leopard-poaching-in-india-traffic-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Uttarakhand, Maharashtra had highest leopard poaching in India: TRAFFIC study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>TRAFFIC India has released a paper titled \u2018\u2018SPOTTED\u2019 in Illegal Wildlife Trade: A Peek into Ongoing Poaching and Illegal Trade of Leopards in India\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Takeaways:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The seizure and mortality of \u2018common leopards\u2019 revealed that of the total of 747 leopard deaths between 2015-2019 in India, 596 were linked to illegal wildlife trade and activities related to poaching.<\/li><li>The highest numbers of poaching incidents were reported from the States of Uttarakhand and Maharashtra.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Indian Leopard(Common Leopard):&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/FT3DZAL23GtEXF6WSiXGaxNVuF9hMLrLLanaLgF2k6-SJxE6ie0UK_74sSUKLeYseNSZejAQaEGTVwF6rkRA4r1NWXoLX7iaQGxg1Caq9_FI9FidZjcqlPkOSMkVD2Cv5yVQkmtb\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Indian Leopard: <\/strong>It is a leopard subspecies widely distributed on the Indian subcontinent.<\/li><li><strong>Habitat: <\/strong>It is<strong> <\/strong>distributed in India, Nepal, Bhutan and parts of Pakistan.<\/li><li><strong>IUCN Status: <\/strong>Vulnerable<\/li><li><strong>Threats: <\/strong>Habitat Destruction, Human-Animal Conflict and Illegal Wildlife Trade.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>TRAFFIC: <\/strong>It<strong> <\/strong>is the leading non-governmental organisation(NGO) working globally on the trade of wild animals and plants in the context of both biodiversity and sustainable development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Founded in: <\/strong>It was founded in 1976 as a strategic alliance of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).<\/li><li><strong>Location: <\/strong>Cambridge, UK<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: TRAFFIC India has released a paper titled \u2018\u2018SPOTTED\u2019 in Illegal Wildlife Trade: A Peek into Ongoing Poaching and Illegal Trade of Leopards in India\u2019. Facts: Key Takeaways: The seizure and mortality of \u2018common leopards\u2019 revealed that of the total of 747 leopard deaths between 2015-2019 in India, 596 were linked to illegal wildlife trade&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/uttarakhand-maharashtra-had-highest-leopard-poaching-in-india-traffic-study\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Uttarakhand, Maharashtra had highest leopard poaching in India: TRAFFIC study<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9326,"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":[5084,4642],"class_list":["post-87335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-leopard","tag-traffic","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":1,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1702738055},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87335","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\/9326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}