Defeated candidate of the recently concluded Presidential elections Mr Sajith Premadasa says that he will ‘ sacrifice the rest of my life with dedication and immense enthusiasm for the implementation of ‘Project Leopard’ which is geared towards conserving Panthera Pardus kotiya.’
Premadasa was the Presidential Candidate from United National Front for 2019 Presidential Election, in which he polled second. He was the only son of the former President of Sri Lanka, Ranasinghe Premadasa and had served as the Deputy Leader and working committee member of the United National Party.
According to the reports. "The Sri Lankan leopard (Panthera pardus kotiya) is a leopard subspecies native to Sri Lanka that was first described in 1956 by the Sri Lankan zoologist Deraniyagala"
In 2008, the Sri Lankan leopard was listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List. The wild population is roughly estimated at 700–950 individuals as of 2015.
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