A male leopard that was captured last year after it killed two humans in Odisha’s Nuapada district has got its partner after it was relocated to the enclosure housing a female leopard in Sambalpur zoo under Hirakud Wildlife Division.
The Central Zoo Authority (CZA), a statutory body under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change monitoring the zoos in the country, has granted permission to pair a man-eating leopard with a female leopard held captive in Odisha’s Sambalpur zoo.
The man-eating leopard had killed a 30-year-old mentally-challenged person in Devprayag on 30 August.
The fear of a man-eating leopard continues to haunt people living in and around Raiwala on the Haridwar-Dehradun-Rishikesh highway. A…
