India records increase in leopard population but real number could be much more

2020-12-30 04:29
A 60 percent rise in India’s leopard population has been recorded in 2018, compared to 2014, but there is one area in the country, the northeastern landscape, where its population is facing “major threat” due to land-use changes triggered by agriculture, tea gardens and linear infrastructure projects. According to the Indian government’s ‘Status of Leopard […]