International Big Cat Alliance (IBCA)

According to a media report, India has proposed to launch the International Big Cat Alliance (IBCA) under its leadership to protect big cats and assured support over five years with guaranteed funding of $100 million (over Rs 800 crore).

Key facts

  • The IBCA will work towards the protection and conservation of the seven major big catstiger (Endangered), Asiatic Lion (Endangered), leopard (Vulnerable), snow leopard (Vulnerable), puma (Least Concern), jaguar (Near Threatened) and cheetah (Vulnerable).
  • Membership to the alliance will be open to 97 “range” countries, which contain the natural habitat of these big cats, as well as other interested nations, international organisations, etc.
  • With re-introduction of cheetahs, India is the only country in the world to have tigers, lions, leopards, snow leopards and cheetahs in the wild.
  • Now India have all the big cats, except the pumas and jaguars, today.
  • The alliance’s purpose is to provide a platform for “dissemination of information on benchmarked practices, capacity building, resources repository, research and development, awareness creation”, etc., on the protection and conservation of big cats.

(Note: The page was edited for Asiatic lion IUCN status)

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