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The ministry of environment, forests and climate change has sanctioned a project, Securing Livelihoods, Conservation, Sustainable Use and Restoration of High Range Himalayan Ecosystem (SECURE) which will be implemented primarily in the critically endangered big cat species, snow leopard’s territory across four states, Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pardesh and Sikkim in the country. This project also support conservation of snow leopard, its prey and a vast amount of biodiversity. This will also contribute to sustainable livelihoods and community participation living in high altitude areas. Besides this, it will also promote sustainable land and forest management in the alpine pastures in high range Indian Himalayan ecosystems.