The Agreement provides India to host the IBCA Headquarters and Secretariat helping IBCA efficiently discharge its official functions.
More on the Agreement
- It pertains to visas, privileges and immunities being extended to the IBCA Secretariat and personnel, premises, etc.
- Further, India to provide a budgetary support of 150 crore rupees to IBCA for creating a corpus, building infrastructure, meeting recurring expenditure for 5 years from 2023-24 to 2028-29.
About IBCA (Hq: India)
- Genesis: Launched by India in 2023 to commemorate 50 years of Project Tiger.
- The IBCA and its Secretariat become a full-fledged treaty based inter-governmental international organization and international legal entity in January, 2025 with the enforcement of its Framework Agreement.
- Members: 7 countries (Cambodia, Nicaragua, Eswatini, India, Somalia, Guinea, and Liberia) have formally signed its Framework Agreement.
- Aim: Conservation of 7 big cats namely Tiger, Lion, Leopard, Snow Leopard, Cheetah, Jaguar and Puma.
- Out of these, 5 big cats viz., Tiger, Lion, Leopard, Snow Leopard and Cheetah are found in India.
Other Efforts for Conservation of Big Cats
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