India’s first Snow leopard conservation center to come up at Gangotri
The design of this center has been designed by the famous architect Prof. Anne Feenstra of the Netherlands. Training related to the promotion of snow leopard will be given in the center to be built at a cost of 5.30 crores. Also, tourists will also get information about this rare creature. Meanwhile, a presentation was made about the project in a meeting chaired by Principal Secretary Forest Anand Vardhan at the Secretariat.
Evidence of Snow Leopard’s presence in the higher Himalayan regions is often found in photographs captured in camera traps. Despite this, their exact numbers in the hills of Uttarakhand is still a mystery. In view of this, a program of snow leopard calculation is being prepared in Secure Himalaya Project. This calculation will take place after the winter is over.
Now another step has been taken towards the preservation of Snow Leopard. According to Chief Wildlife Advocate Rajiv Bharathari, the Snow Leopard Conservation Center is being established in Gangotri National Park. A place has been found for this. The center will be constructed near the Lanka Bridge at an altitude of about 2800 feet at Bhairaghati, the entrance of Gangotri Park.
The center has been designed by the Netherlands architect Prof. Anne Feenstra. The center will have training programs about Snow Leopard. There will also be a system for researchers. Apart from this, tourists will be given information about Snow Leopard through the documentary.
In the Secretariat, Principal Secretary Van Anand vardhan reviewed the Snow Leopard Conservation Center. On this occasion Prof. Feenstra, who designed the center, gave a presentation. Earlier, a presentation related to the Conservation Center was also made in front of the Chief Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF) Jayaraj at the forest headquarters. According to PCCF, it is the first snow leopard conservation center in the country. This would prove to be a milestone in the direction of Snow Leopard’s conservation. The effort is that it will come into existence within a year.
The presence of a snow leopard is estimated in an area of 39 km at an altitude of three to four and a half thousand meters above sea level. Being a rare species, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has included snow leopard in the threatened species category.