Explanation:

Recently, Union Minister for Environment Prakash Javadekar released the Status of Leopards report. The leopard population has been estimated using camera trapping method.

Key highlights of the report

• India now has 12,852 leopards as compared to the previous estimate of 7910 conducted 2014.
• More than 60% increase in population has been recorded.
• The States of Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka and Maharashtra recorded the highest leopard estimates at 3,421, 1,783 and 1,690 respectively.
• The leopard was estimated across forested habitats in tiger range areas of the country but other leopard occupied areas such as non-forested habitats (coffee and tea plantations and other land uses from where leopards are known to occur), higher elevations in the Himalayas, arid landscapes and majority of North East landscape were not sampled and, therefore, the population estimation should be considered as minimum number of leopards in each of the landscapes.

Hence only statement 1st is correct.