The Daily Populous Tuesday December 22nd, 2020 night edition
Authored by timesofindia.indiatimes.com and submitted by BigDevilGTA

Here are the key points from the report:

The leopard population has been estimated using camera trapping method.

There are 12,852 leopards in India as of 2018, an increase of 60% since 2014.

in India as of 2018, an increase of 60% since 2014. The highest concentration of the leopard in India is estimated to be in Madhya Pradesh (3,421) followed by Karnataka (1,783) and Maharashtra (1,690).

Recent meta-analyses of leopard status and distribution suggest 48â67% range loss for the species in Africa and 83â87% in Asia.

In India, leopards have experienced a possibly human-induced 75-90% population decline in the last ~120-200 years.

In Indian subcontinent poaching, habitat loss, depletion of natural prey and conflict are major threats to leopard populations.

All these have resulted in changing the species status from âNear Threatenedâ to âVulnerableâ by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

As for region-wise distribution, the highest number of 8,071 leopards were found in central India and eastern ghats, which include the states of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.

In the western ghat region, which comprises Karnataka, Tamil Nadi, Goa and Kerala, there are 3,387 leopards.

There are 1,253 leopards in Shivalik and Gangetic Plains which includes Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Bihar.

In the northeast hills, there are just 141 leopards.

NEW DELHI: India's leopard population increased to 12,852 in 2018 from around 8,000 in 2014, environment minister Prakash Javadekar said on Monday. The minister was releasing the âStatus of Leopards in India 2018' report.The minister asserted that the rise in leopards' numbers, coming on the heels of similar reports on tigers and lions, shows that the country is protecting its ecology and biodiversity well.

ralphieIsAlive on December 21st, 2020 at 19:11 UTC »

For people who haven't opened the link: this was technically news in 2018 (2014-2018 being the mentioned time period). The population is probably higher by at least 1000 today! Also if you're interested, check out the Rhino and Lion conservation activities. There are other animals animals that have been doing really well. Taking care of them is very difficult because they get poached and shipped to China for medicine in droves. The government laws are extremely strict, but the real MVPs are the conservationists, knowing a few personally, I can say that they make very little money and work purely out of interest in the field. India has some really good people trying to protect wildlife!

Edit: Damn this really blew up. Also thank you for the gold! I don't know how I could thank you guys so I'm just going to add more info in the bottom so you don't have to search it up.

Rhinos(one horned): 75 in 1905 to 2700 in 2012 and finally well past 3600 in 2020

Lions(gir): 284 in 1990 to 523 in 2015 to 674 in 2020

Tigers(Bengal): 1400 in 2014 to 2967 in 2019

https://www.kaziranga-national-park.com/blog/rhino-conservation-in-india/#:~:text=In%201986%20Indian%20rhinos%20were,to%20over%203000%20at%20present.

https://m.timesofindia.com/india/roaring-success-population-of-asiatic-lions-in-india-up-29-in-5-years/amp_articleshow/76311768.cms

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.in/science/environment/news/indias-tiger-population-has-nearly-doubled-in-12-years/amp_articleshow/77220681.cms

natur_al on December 21st, 2020 at 18:37 UTC »

They have been eating a lot of faces on Reddit.

prguitarman on December 21st, 2020 at 18:21 UTC »

From 8,000 to around 13,000