While the leopard population is growing in India, its habitat is fast vanishing

A 60% 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.

Besides land use factors such as linear infrastructure projects, the report (Status of Leopard in India, 2018) revealed that poaching and human-wildlife conflict are other major factors impacting the species in the northeastern landscape.

Among the states, Madhya Pradesh with 3,421 leopards has the highest number of leopards recorded – which is about 26% of the total number estimated in the country, according to the report.

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