Key Aspects of the MoU: 1⃣ Joint Conservation Cell: A Joint Snow Leopard Conservation Cell will be established to monitor, research, and coordinate efforts to protect the snow leopard and its habitat. 2⃣ Target Species: The agreement focuses on the: ▪️Snow leopard ▪️Himalayan wolf ▪️Bharal (blue sheep) ▪️Ibex ▪️Marmot ▪️Black-necked crane 3⃣ Scope: The partnership covers areas along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) and aims to promote sustainable, eco-friendly practices by the Army in high-altitude terrain. 4⃣ Background: This initiative is part of the Global Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Protection Program (GSLEP) to protect the "ghost of the Himalayas" and its, as of 2025, 477-individual population in the region.

Indian Army-Ladakh MoU for Wildlife Conservation: The Indian Army's Fire and Fury Corps signed an #MoU with Ladakh's Forest Department under the #Global_Snow_Leopard and #Ecosystem_Protection_Program (#GSLEP) to conserve species like snow leopards and Himalayan wolves. It includes establishing a joint conservation cell and eco-friendly practices in border areas, reflecting India's commitment to biodiversity in sensitive Himalayan regions amid #climate_change concerns.

MOU : མེ་གསོད་དམག་དཔུང་དང་ལ་དྭགས་ཀྱི་ཡུ་ཊི་འཛིན་སྐྱོང་། འཛམ་གླིང་རི་སྐྱེས་སྲོག་ཆགས་ཉིན་མོར། མེའི་སྟོབས་ཤུགས་དམག་སྡེ་དང་ལ་དྭགས་ཀྱི་ནགས་ཚལ། རི་ཁྲོད། ཁོར་ཡུག་ལྷན་ཁང་བཅས་ཀྱིས་གོ་རིམ་གཏན་འཁེལ་ཡིག་ཆ་ཞིག་ལ་མཚན་རྟགས་བཀོད། དམིགས་བསལ་གྱི་ཁོར་ཡུག་སྲུང་སྐྱོབ་དང་གཅན་གཟན་རིགས་ཁ་སྐོང་བ། གཡང་གཟི། ཧི་མཱ་ལ་ཡའི་སྤྱང་ཀི། བྷ་རལ། སྒྱིལ་བ། གཙིར་བ། ལྟོ་སྐྱུར་མགོ་ཅན་གྱི་བྱི་གུ་བཅས་དང་དེའི་གནས་ས་སྲུང་སྐྱོབ་ཆེད། གངས་གཡང་རི་ཁྲོད་ཁོར་ཡུག་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ (GSLEP) ཀྱི་ཐད་ལ། རྒྱལ་སྲུང་དམག་དཔུང་གིས་རྒྱུན་དུ་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་མཐའ་མཚམས་སྲུང་སྐྱོབ་དང་རང་བྱུང་ཁམས་ཀྱི་ལྗོན་ཤིང་སྐྱེ་ཐིག་སྲུང་བ་བཅས་ཀྱི་འགལ་ཟླ་དྲི་མེད་བར་གྱི་རྩིས་སྤྲོད་བྱེད་བཞིན་བརྟན་པར་གནས་ཀྱི་ཡོད། གངས་གཡང་སྲུང་སྐྱོབ་ལྟེ་གནས་ཤིག་གཉིས་ཀར་མཉམ་འབྲེལ་གྱིས་བཙུགས་ཏེ་སྲུང་སྐྱོབ་གོ་རིམ་ལ་ལྟ་རྟོག་བྱེད་རྒྱུ་ཡིན། འདི་ལྟའི་མཉམ་ལས་འབྲེལ་བས་ཁོར་ཡུག་མཐུན་པའི་ལམ་ལུགས་བསྐྲུན་པར་ཐབས་ཤེས་གསར་པ་ཞིག་གི་གཞི་རྩ་བཙུགས། མེའི་སྟོབས་ཤུགས་དམག་སྡེའི་དམག་མི་སྐོར་གཙོ་བ། རྡམ་གི་ཧིད་ཤི་བྷལ། དེ་བཞིན་ལ་དྭགས་ཀྱི་གཞུང་གི་ཡིག་ཚང་ཆེན་མོ། ཤྲི་ཨ་ཤིཤ་ཀུན་དྲ། IAS བཅས་དམག་གི་དང་སྲིད་གཞུང་གི་སྐུ་ཞབས་མང་དང་ས་གནས་མི་སྡེའི་ཚོགས་མི་ལྷན་དུ་འཛོམས་ཏེ། ལ་དྭགས་ཀྱི་རིན་ཐང་ཆེ་བའི་སྲོག་ཆགས་སྣ་མང་དང་ཞི་མིན་ཁོར་ཡུག་སྲུང་སྐྱོབ་ལ་གཅིག་གྱུར་གྱི་དམ་བཅའ་བསྟན། @adgpi @NorthernComd_IA @prodef_leh @ULadakh @ANI @lg_ladakh

A historic step towards wildlife conservation was taken today on #WorldWildlifeDay, as the Fire & Fury Corps, Indian Army, and the Forest, Ecology & Environment Department, UT Ladakh, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to preserve the fragile ecology and conserve majestic species like the Snow Leopard, Himalayan Wolf, Bharal, Ibex, Marmot, Black-necked Crane and their habitats under the Global Snow Leopard Ecosystem Forum (GSLEP). The MOU was signed in the presence of Lt Gen Hitesh Bhalla, GOC, Fire & Fury Corps and Shri Ashish Kundra, IAS, Chief Secretary, UT Ladakh. @moefcc @byadavbjp

#WATCH | Ladakh | A historic step towards wildlife conservation was taken today on World Wildlife Day, as the Fire & Fury Corps, Indian Army, and the Forest, Ecology & Environment Department, UT Ladakh, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to preserve the fragile ecology and conserve majestic species like the Snow Leopard, Himalayan Wolf, Bharal, Ibex, Marmot, Black-necked Crane and their habitats under the Global Snow Leopard Ecosystem Forum (GSLEP). The MOU was signed in the presence of Lt Gen Hitesh Bhalla, GOC, Fire & Fury Corps and Shri Ashish Kundra, IAS, Chief Secretary, UT Ladakh. (Source: Indian Army)

A major step towards wildlife conservation was taken on World Wildlife Day, as the Fire & Fury Corps of the Indian Army and the Forest, Ecology & Environment Department, UT Ladakh signed an MoU to protect Ladakh’s fragile ecosystem. The initiative focuses on conserving iconic species like the Snow Leopard, Himalayan Wolf, Bharal, Ibex, Marmot, and Black-necked Crane under the Global Snow Leopard Ecosystem Protection Program (GSLEP). The MoU was signed in the presence of Lt Gen Hitesh Bhalla, GOC Fire & Fury Corps, and Ashish Kundra, Chief Secretary, UT Ladakh. This partnership aims to promote sustainable development and environmental protection in Ladakh’s high-altitude regions, ensuring long-term preservation of its unique biodiversity. A Joint Snow Leopard Conservation Cell will be established to monitor and strengthen conservation efforts on the ground. The Indian Army continues to balance border security with environmental responsibility, setting an example of eco-conscious operations in one of the world’s most sensitive ecosystems. #IndianArmy #Ladakh #SnowLeopard #WildlifeConservation #WorldWildlifeDay #GSLEP #Sustainability #EcoProtection #Biodiversity #FireAndFury #NatureConservation @adgpi @firefurycorps @lg_ladakh

MOU : Fire and Fury Corps and UT Administration of Ladakh On World Wildlife Day, Fire & Fury Corps and the Forest, Ecology & Environment Department, UT Ladakh, signed a Memorandum of Understanding to preserve the fragile ecology and conserve endangered species like Snow Leopard, Himalayan Wolf, Bharal, Ibex, Marmot, Black-necked Crane and their habitats under the Global Snow Leopard Ecosystem Forum (GSLEP). Indian Army has always been committed to sustainable development and nature conservation balancing sometimes competing needs of safeguarding our borders and protecting the local flora and fauna. A joint Snow Leopard Conservation Cell will monitor conservation efforts, furthering the goals of conserving the species. This partnership sets a unique framework towards developing eco-friendly practices. Lt Gen Hitesh Bhalla, GOC, Fire & Fury Corps and Shri Ashish Kundra, IAS, Chief Secretary, UT Ladakh alongwith senior military and civil dignitaries and community members attended the event reaffirming their shared commitment to preserve Ladakh’s rich biodiversity and fragile ecosystem. @adgpi @NorthernComd_IA @prodef_leh @ULadakh @ANI @lg_ladakh

Dr. Muhammad Ali Nawaz (SLF) & GSLEP Envoy Senator Jamal Leghari met Prof. Dr. Masood Akhtar, VC University of Baltistan. They discussed student & researcher capacity building, modern wildlife monitoring, tech transfer & joint projects to boost conservation in Gilgit-Baltistan.

2⃣الاتحاد من أجل إنقاذ الأنواع في عام 2013، تم اعتماد البرنامج العالمي لحماية النمر الثلجي والنظم البيئية (GSLEP) في قيرغيزستان بهدف معالجة تحديات تنمية المناطق الجبلية المرتفعة وحماية هذا النوع  الذي يعتبر مرجعا، لأنه شديد الحساسية تجاه أي تغيّرات في بيئته. ويضم هذا الاتحاد غير المسبوق 12 دولة من نطاق انتشار هذا المفترس: روسيا، بوتان، نيبال، الهند، الصين، باكستان، أفغانستان، منغوليا، كازاخستان، قيرغيزستان، أوزبكستان، وطاجيكستان.

(3/10) Unidos para salvar la especie En 2013, nació en Kirguistán el Programa Global para la Conservación del Leopardo de las Nieves y sus Ecosistemas (GSLEP) con el fin de resolver los problemas de desarrollo de las regiones de alta montaña y proteger esta especie considerada como referencial, ya que es muy sensible a las alteraciones de su hábitat. La alianza sin precedentes une a 12 países del área de distribución del depredador: Rusia, Bután, Nepal, la India, China, Pakistán, Afganistán, Mongolia, Kazajistán, Kirguistán, Uzbekistán y Tayikistán.

🚀 UPSC 2026: #23for23 Initiative #SnowLeopard #GSLEP 🐾 1) Essence in One Line On 23 Oct, citizens worldwide commit 23 minutes of activity to spotlight snow-leopard conservation and high-altitude ecosystem security. #MoveForTheMountainGhost 🧾 #23for23 #SnowLeopard #HighAltitudeEcosystem #BiodiversityHotspot #MountainGovernance #UPSC2026 #GSLEP #ProjectSnowLeopard #NatureBasedSolutions #CitizenStewardship 🏔️🌿🐾

Current Affairs Quiz🔔🔔🔔: In India’s first‐ever snow leopard census under GSLEP, how many snow leopards have been recorded across the Indian Himalayas? #currentaffairsquiz #currentaffairs #UPSC #SSC #UPSCPrelims2026 #RRB #BPSC

About : - A national campaign introduced by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) to promote citizen participation in conserving the snow leopard and its fragile mountain habitats. Main Purpose : - To spread awareness about the importance of snow leopard habitats and the threats they face. - To encourage public participation in safeguarding India’s high-altitude ecosystems, aligning with the Global Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Protection Programme (GSLEP).

WWF trabaja con el gobierno y las comunidades de Mongolia, así como con otros 11 países del área donde habitan los leopardos de las nieves, para apoyar el Programa Global de Protección del Ecosistema del Leopardo de las Nieves (GSLEP) y proteger su supervivencia a largo plazo.

#23for23: 23 Minutes for Snow Leopards The campaign, initiated by the Global Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Protection Program (GSLEP) and the Snow Leopard Trust worldwide, to dedicate 23 minutes of physical activity for honouring the snow leopard @byadavbjp

The campaign, initiated by the Global Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Protection Program (GSLEP) and the Snow Leopard Trust, aims to: #DYK? #InternationalSnowLeopardDay #SnowLeopard

🔥 UPSC CSE Prelims 2026: Must-Know Insights — “Snow Leopard: The Ghost of the Mountains” 🐆❄️ | Biodiversity | Ecology | Environment | Genetics | Conservation Biology | India’s Himalayan Ecology 🔥 Because UPSC doesn’t ask “facts” — it asks “connections.” This topic sits precisely at the intersection of ecology, genetics, climate change, and India’s Himalayan conservation policies — making it a potential 2–3-question hotspot for GS Paper-1 (Environment & Ecology). #UPSC2026 #GS1 #Environment #SnowLeopard #BiodiversityCrisis #GeneticDiversity #PNAS #StanfordStudy #ProjectSnowLeopard #MoEFCC #GSLEP #BishkekDeclaration #HimalayanEcosystem #ClimateAction #IndiaForNature #WildlifeConservation #EcologyUPSC #SustainableDevelopment #NAPCC #CBD #CITES #CMS #UNFCCC #ParisAgreement #WII #NCF #NCBS #ConservationGenomics #Inbreeding #Heterozygosity #FlagshipSpecies #LifeOnLand #SDG13 #SDG15 🎯 UPSC Takeaway (One-Liner Precision) “Snow leopard — least genetically diverse big cat, keystone of Himalayan ecology, indicator of climate change, symbol of India’s high-altitude conservation diplomacy.” 🧭 Master this 🧵, and you master an entire UPSC theme: Ecology × Genetics × Policy × Climate Change.

🏔️ Snow leopard habitats face growing threats from expanding roads, railways, and power lines. At the 9th GSLEP meeting, new guidance led by @SnowLeopardTrust, WWF & partners shows how smart, sustainable infrastructure can protect these big cats and their fragile ecosystems. It provides initial recommendations for how snow leopard range country governments can use avoidance and mitigation techniques to address the impacts of infrastructure development. Read more: worldwildlife.org/stories/de…

Asia’s high mountains, home to the #SnowLeopard, are warming at twice the Northern Hemisphere average. Leaders from 12 Asian nations gathered in #Cholpon-Ata, Kyrgyzstan, reaffirming their commitment to save the endangered Snow Leopard 🐆 and tackle the escalating impacts of #ClimateChange. At the IX GSLEP Steering Committee Meeting, countries adopted the Cholpon-Ata Resolution, a bold pledge to increase funding for climate adaptation and conflict mitigation, center Indigenous peoples and local communities in conservation. The resolution also acknowledged IBCA, highlighting its growing role and potential for collaboration with @gslep_program and @ethicalconserv.

Voices from Cholpon-Ata: United for Snow Leopards and Climate Action Leaders affirm bold commitments to climate justice, local communities & mountain ecosystems. 🐾🌍 #GSLEP #SnowLeopard