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By: Express News Service | New Delhi | December 22, 2020 3:15:21 am Estimates for 2014 put the leopard population at nearly 8,000, which has risen to 12,852. Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar announced on Monday that “there has been a 60 percent increase in the leopard population count in …

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 publishing the ‘State of Leopards in India Report 2018 ‘. The minister stated that the increase in leopard numbers, followed by similar reports on tigers …