report writing on India records highest leopard morality
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The highest leopard mortality rate was recorded in Uttarakhand with 93 deaths. This is followed by Maharashtra (90), Rajasthan (46), Madhya Pradesh (37), Uttar Pradesh (27), Karnataka (24), and Himachal Pradesh (23) among others,” WPSI programme coordinator Tito Joseph told IANS.
“Poaching, road accidents, and human-animal conflict are the main reasons for this increased mortality rate. In 2018 only, 29 leopards were killed by villagers and eight leopards considered to be man eaters were killed by the forest department workers,” he said.
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report writing on India records highest leopard morality
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At 460 Deaths, India Records Highest Leopard Mortality Rate In 2018
Nikhil Jain, Mumbai
25 March 2020, 8.30 AM IST
The Wildlife Protection Society of India (WPSI) said India had reported 460 leopard deaths in 2018, the highest mortality of big cat species in the world over the last 4 years. In 2017, 431 leopards including 159 poached cases were killed, according to reports. About 450 leopards died in 2016.
The key reasons for this increase were poaching, road accidents and violence between humans and animals. 29 leopards alone were murdered by villagers in 2018, while eight leopards were killed by workers in the forest departments as they were considered to be man-eaters.
Deaths are defined as when a leopard or tiger has been found dead because of disease or unexplained causes, killed by villagers or killed by a forest department or by police, killed in train or road accident and killed during rescue operation or treatment, accidental electrocution, and infighting.
Minister of the Union for the Environment, Harsh Vardhan, told Parliament on March 9 that his Department was aware of the deaths and was dealing with the matter.
Leopards were hunted by hides and other body parts of poachers. The loss of habitat, however, also poses a danger, particularly because of farming. Experts working on the monitoring of illegal wildlife trade show a number of hands changing animal skin before entering a prospective market in China, where it could fetch about Rs 50 lakh — or even greater.
Within the International Union for the Conservation of Nature Red List the Indian leopard is classified as "vulnerable. It is protected by Annex I of the 1972 Law on Wildlife Safety