According to forest officials, the elephants are trained to carry out search operations and comb sugarcane fields. Forest personnel, who will be sitting atop these elephants, will shoot tranquillizer darts on the leopard.
It may be recalled that on November 27, a woman was killed by a leopard in Nawada village, a five- year-old boy was killed on December 17 and on December 19, a leopard mauled a 23-year-old youth at Alam Saray village. A 16-year-old boy was killed by the big cat at Asgarpur village on December 26.
A leopard entered a house in Delhi's Ashok Vihar Phase 2, triggering panic among residents.
A mob in Gujarat's Amreli district has been booked for rioting for demanding that a suspected man-eater leopard be put down, police said on Sunday.
Addressing the inaugural session of the fourth steering committee meeting of the Global Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Protection (GSLEP) programme on the occasion of International Snow Leopard Day, Javadekar said the maximum population of snow leopards is in Mongolia and China.
The animal attacked the man while it was roaming around in the town, an official said.
In the video, a man can be seen clicking photos of the injured leopard before it sprung at him and attacked him suddenly. Some people at the spot tried to help the man to get rid of the leopard, while others ran to save their own lives.
The deceased, Jahuben Khasiya, was attacked by the feline when she was sleeping outside her house in Ebhalvad village in the early hours, chief conservator of forests (CCF), Junagadh wildlife circle, D T Vasavada, said.
The Forest department officials rescued a leopard cub in Pithoragarh yesterday. The leopard cub had entered the storeroom of a house which triggered panic among the people.
The leopard was found hanging from a high-voltage wire, tangled over a tree, in Mandawar village, situated in the foothills of the Aravalli range of mountains, on Thursday morning.
The carnivore was first seen at Korum Mall located in Samata Nagar around 5.30 am by some persons who alerted police and forest officials.
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The monk, identified as Rahul Walke, was attacked by the big cat in the deep forest in Chandrapur district located over 150 kms from Nagpur.
Cages have been placed and tranquilizer guns have been brought into the campus after the incident.
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According to the Chief Conservator of Forest, Wild Life, H K Bist, the black panther or melanistic leopard as it is called, was caught on camera while roaming in the forest.
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