Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma launched Mission Clouded Leopard to safeguard the State animal, the mainland clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa). It differs from the Sunda clouded leopard of Borneo and Sumatra. The species is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List and protected under Schedule I of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972. Its range covers Bhutan, Myanmar, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia and northeast India, while it has declined sharply in Bangladesh, Vietnam and much of China and is locally extinct in Singapore and Taiwan. In India it occurs in Sikkim, northern West Bengal, Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur, Assam, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya's subtropical forests.