Leh: Indian Forest Service Officer Jigmet Takpa joined as first Principal Chief Conservator of forest Uinion Territory of Ladakh.
As per reports, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India created the post of Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (PCCF) for Union Territory of Ladakh on August 1 , 2022 .
Subsequent to this Jigmet Takpa, IFS has been posted as the first Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (PCCF) in the Department of Forest, Ecology and Environment of Union Territory of Ladakh on 1st August and he joined as PCCF, UT Ladakh on August 8 2022.
It is pretinent to mention here that Jigmet Takpa is an officer of the Indian Forest Service (IFS) from Ladakh. He is credited with the success of Project Snow Leopard that turned Ladakh into the snow leopard capital of the world.
Takpa has been conferred various prestigious awards —the Environmental Hero Award, the State Award for Meritorious Public Service, J&K, the Indira Priyadarshini Vriksha Mitra Award, the Renewtech Award for Best Nodal Agency, and the Gyalwang Drukpa Award.
He also figures in the Book of Guinness World Records for the most trees planted simultaneously (2011).
