Budget 2026: India To Host World’s First Global Big Cat Summit

Among the several things announced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1, 2026, while rolling out the budget, a major--and perhaps only--environmental and diplomatic push that featured was the intention to host the Global Big Cat Summit this year in India. The summit will seek to bring leaders, environmental ministers and conservation experts together from 95 big cat dominated countries to brainstorm and plan collective conservation measures.