IBCA Summit 2026: The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), would be organising a series of thematic events across the country to highlight India’s leadership in big cat conservation and promote the objectives of the International Big Cat Alliance (IBCA).
These programmes will focus on India’s five wild big cat species — Tiger, Asiatic Lion, Leopard, Snow Leopard and Cheetah — and will showcase conservation achievements, challenges and collaborative actions by the Government of India and State Governments.
The thematic events will be organised at these locations
Asiatic Lion Conservation Programme – Gir, Gujarat
Cheetah Conservation Programme – Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
Leopard Conservation & International Day for Biological Diversity Event – Bhubaneswar, Odisha
Snow Leopard Conservation Programme – Gangtok, Sikkim
Tiger Conservation Programme – Chandrapur, Maharashtra
These pre summit programmes are designed to promote awareness, strengthen stakeholder engagement and highlight India’s conservation success stories under flagship initiatives of the Government of India and how these have resulted in establishment of the IBCA under India’s leadership on a clarion call by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi.
