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Detailed explanation-1: -The Correct Answer is “Uttarakhand". India’s first Snow Leopard Conservation Centre will be opened in the Uttarkashi forest division in UttarakhandUttarakhand state forest department will open India’s first conversation center for snow leopards in Uttarakashi district.

Detailed explanation-2: -Snow leopards live in the mountainous regions of Central and Southern Asia. In India, their geographical range encompasses a large part of the western Himalayas, including the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh in the eastern Himalayas.

Detailed explanation-3: -What is Project Snow Leopard? Project Snow was launched in 2009 to safeguard and conserve India’s unique natural heritage of high-altitude wildlife populations and their habitats by promoting conservation through participatory policies and actions.

Detailed explanation-4: -Snow Leopard is on the list of 21 critically endangered species for the recovery programme of the Ministry of Environment Forest & Climate Change. Snow Leopard conservation breeding programme is undertaken at Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park, Darjeeling, West Bengal.

Detailed explanation-5: -Hemis National Park, Gangotri National Park, Khangchendzonga National park and Great Himalayan National Park are some protected areas where snow leopards are known to be found.