Leopard wreaks havoc at wedding ceremony in Lucknow
Forest Department officials managed to catch the leopard after three hours of effort during which it attacked and injured a police sub-inspector.
Forest Department officials managed to catch the leopard after three hours of effort during which it attacked and injured a police sub-inspector.
A farmer, who was harvesting crops in village Dih of Lakhimpur Kheri district of Uttar Pradesh was attacked by a leopard, and killed on the spot.
A leopard strayed into Vidhyadhar Nagar Colony, an outer area of the Pink City, on Saturday and injured three people before being tranquillised and rescued in a five-hour-long operation by wildlife sleuths.
A seven-year-old female leopard, which was a major attraction for tourists, died at her enclosure in Odisha’s Sambalpur Zoo, an official said on Thursday.
A leopard, which is suspected to have preyed on at least eight people in the Gogunda-Jhadol -Madar region of Udaipur district in Rajasthan last month, was shot dead by forest officials on Friday.
Wildlife lover and Union Minister of State Ramdas Athawale adopted a five-year-old leopard at the Sanjay Gandhi National Park, here on Tuesday.
A Forest Department team told the media, quoting the villagers, the leopard that had entered the village was surrounded by a pack of village dogs.
The incident happened when the leopard pounced on him and bit his hand when he was going to the farmland for work at around 7 am.
The forest department has arrested three Nepalese nationals with hides of two red panda and one leopard.
The poaching of these protected animals has shot up in Odisha with the seizure of around 50 leopard skins in the last two years. Of the seizures, the STF alone has accounted for the seizure of 32 skins.
