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Spotlights on snow leopard of J&K Govt. to strengthen protected areas: Najmus Saqib 12/1/2006 10:36:49 PM B L KAK NEW DELHI, DEC 1 'Project Snow Leopard' is being launched in Jammu and Kashmir early next year when a series of measures will be put in place to protect the wild cat population threatened by poaching and the loss of habitat. This information has been furnished by Najmus Saqib, Environment Commisioner to the Jammu and Kashmir government, in the course of an interview with the Jammu-based correspondent of Reuters. Najmus Saqib has been reported as divuling that Kashmir's highly endangered yet largely neglected snow leopard population will be given "special protection" under a new conservation project aimed at curbing poaching and boosting dwindling numbers. In the interview, Najmus Saqib has been quoted as saying: "Our attempt is to mitigate and address the identified threats besides strengthening the protected areas in Kashmir. This is a major challenge for us but the snow leopard is the heritage of the Himalayas." Scientifically known as the Uncia uncia, the solitary cats are native to the remote mountain ranges of central and southern Asia, where their populatio...   READ MORE

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Road construction along Indo-China border China illegally holds 38,000 sq. km of J&K: Mukherjee 12/1/2006 10:35:20 PM B L KAK NEW DELHI, DEC 1 Amid the renewed 'Hindi-Chini Bhai Bhai' talk, the Minister of External Affairs, Pranab Mukherjee, has dropped the brick, taking many by surprise with his assertion: "China continues to be in illegal occupation of approximately 38,000 squate kilometres in the Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir". Mr Mukherjee's assertion, significantly, has become part of the official records of the Rajya Sabha. In his reply to a question by Abu Asim Azmi in the Rajya Sabha, the Minister of External Affairs placed himself on record as saying: "In addition, under the so-called China-Pakistan Boundary Agreement of 1963, Pakistan illegally ceded 5,180 square kilometres of Indian ...   READ MORE

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